Richard Kubla

Richard Kubla (11 February 1890 – 9 July 1964) was a Czech tenor who had an active international career in operas, concerts, and recitals from 1910-1945. He had a particularly lengthy association with the National Theatre Prague where he was heard annually from 1924-1945.

Professional career Born in Ostrava, Kubla studied the violin as a child and already performed as a soloist at the age of seven. His uncle, conductor of a children's choir, advised him to take singing lessons, which he did in Prague with Bohumil Ptak, later with Vaclav Svtech. Before pursuing a music conservatory education, he studied law in his native country. He then entered the Vienna Academy of Music and the Performing Arts in 1911 where he was a pupil through 1914.

Kubla made has debut as a professional singer in 1910 as a concert soloist.