Ales Jenis sings the title role in Eugen Onegin at the Glyndebourne Festival 2008 und der the baton of Vladimir Jurowski. He performs as Sharpless in Madama Butterfly in Santiago de Chile, a role in which he has already celebrated success at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin as well as in Vienna. He will make his debut in Valencia singing Ferdinand in Prokofiev’s Betrothal in the Monastery followed by Conte di Almaviva in a Nozze di Figaro production under the baton of Tomas Netopil at the new opera-house of Valencia, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia.
 
The baritone has continued to establish his young and successful career in recent seasons with important engagements and role debuts, for instance in the title role of Don Giovanni in a new production at the Oper St. Gallen. In the new-years concert of the Deutsche Oper Berlin Ales Jenis made his house-debut with highlights from the Russian repertoire. He then sang Conte Gil at the Opéra National de Montpellier in a new production of Segreto di Susanna under the baton of Bernhard Kontarsky. At the Wiener Festwochen, the Holland-festival and the festival of Aix-en-Provence, Ales Jenis debuted as Convict / Don Juan in a new production of Janacek’s From the house of the dead, staged by Patrice Chérau and conducted by Pierre Boulez.
 
In 2003 the young baritone debuted at the Wexford Festival (Die drei Pintos) and subsequently at the Teatro Lirico Cagliari (Alfonso and Estrella), the Grand Théâtre de Genève (House of the dead), the Oper St. Gallen (Onegin), the Teatro Municipal Santiago de Chile (Lohengrin), the National Theatre Bratislava (Onegin, Lucia), the Opéra d’Avignon (Werther), the Wiener Volksoper (Butterfly) and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (Butterfly).
 
Ales Jenis has collaborated with conductors and stage directors such as Richard Hickox, Daniel Harding, Jiri Belohlavek, Jiri Kout, Michail Jurowski, Maximiliano Valdes, Paolo Arrivabeni, Luca Ronconi, Pierre Strosser, Alfred Kirchner and Anthony Pilavachi.
 
Born July 20th 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). 
 
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