Barbora Horákova

Barbora Horáková, born in Prague, lives in Biel. She studied singing at the music academies in Basel and Geneva and directing at the Bavarian Theatre Academy in Munich.

The first station of her theatrical work was Basel, where she took advantage of numerous opportunities to work with distinguished personalities as an assistant, theatre director and dramaturge.

The world premiere of the opera Wilde (music: Héctor Parra, libretto: Klaus Hendl) at the Schwetzingen Festival in 2015 was the start of a formative collaboration with director Calixto Bieito. 

La voix humaine (Poulenc), created in Neuchâtel, was her first independent production. Her catalogue of works quickly expanded. In Basel and Oslo Pelléas et Mélisande, in Bilbao L'Orfeo (Monteverdi) and Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), La bella dormente nel bosco (Respighi) in Lyon, Luisa Miller in Wuppertal and London's ENO, L'enfant et les sortilèges/Olympia (Ravel/Offenbach) at the Vienna Chamber Opera, in Dresden Eötvös' Der goldene Drache and La traviata  and Benvenuto Cellini, in Mannheim Le nozze di Figaro, Dark Spring and Dark Fall, both world premieres, in Hanover Carmen and Eugene Onegin, in Prague Rigoletto, Erwartung, Die sieben Todsünden and Le nozze di Figaro, in Amsterdam Missa in tempore belli (Haydn), at the Theater an der Wien La Wally, at the Staatsoper Berlin Vivaldi's Giustino and Thomas by K. F. Haas, Ernani in Antwerp and St. Gallen, Der fliegende Holländer in Weimar. In 2024/25, she opened the season in Amsterdam with Peter Grimes, followed by Die Zauberflöte at the Vienna State Opera in January, Greek Passion in Hanover and Lear in Prague.