In 2010 baritone Ales Jenis debuts at the Teatro alla Scala Milano as well as at the Metropolitan Opera New York under Esa-Pekka Salonen, both times in the role of Convict in Janacek’s opera From the house of the dead, which he had already sung successfully at Wiener Festwochen, Holland Festival and at Festival Aix-en-Provence. In concert he sings Dvoraks Biblical Songs with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jakub Hrusa and with Prague Philharmonia under Jiri Belohlavek, and he appears at the National Theatre Prague in Martinu’s Gilgamesh under Tomas Netopil.

In the season 2008/09 Ales Jenis debuted at New National Theatre Tokyo as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, which he had already sung in Vienna, at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and in Santiago de Chile. In previous seasons Ales Jenis appeared in the name part of Eugen Onegin at Bolshoi Theater Moscow and at Glyndebourne Festival under Vladimir Jurowski. At Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Valencia he sang Ferdinand in Prokofiews Betrothal in the Monastery as well as Almaviva in a Nozze di Figaro-production.

Ales Jenis gave guest performances at Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Butterfly), Wexford Festival (Die drei Pintos), Teatro Lirico Cagliari (Alfonso und Estrella), Grand Théâtre de Genève (House of the dead), Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile (Lohengrin), National Theatre Bratislava (Onegin, Lucia, Elisir d’ amore), Oper St. Gallen (Onegin/Don Giovanni), Opéra d’Avignon (Werther), Wiener Volksoper (Butterfly) and Opéra National de Montpellier (Segreto di Susanna).

Ales Jenis has collaborated with conductors and stage directors such as Paolo Arrivabeni, Jiri Belohlavek, Pierre Boulez, Daniel Harding, Richard Hickox, Michail Jurowski, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Karabits, Bernhard Kontarsky, Jiri Kout, Tomas Netopil, Marc Piollet or Maximiano Valdes as well as Patrice Chérau, Alfred Kirchner, Peter Konwitschny, Anthony Pilavachi, Luca Ronconi, Pierre Strosser and Graham Vick.

Born 1977 in Bratislava, Ales Jenis studied piano for four years, beginning his vocal studies at the Bratislava Conservatory in 1998. Immediately after his studies, the Prague State Opera engaged him for the roles of Papageno (Magic Flute) and Morales (Carmen) in 2001. One year later the Slovakian National Theatre Bratislava engaged him for the roles of Morales (Carmen), Silvio (Pagliacci) and Shaunard (Bohème).

2009/10