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Mariusz Kwiecień

Mariusz Kwiecień

Born: 4th November 1972, Kraków, Poland

Nationality: Polish

Artist's website: https://www.mariuszkwiecien.com

Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecień was born in Kraków in 1972 and trained at the Warsaw Academy of Music and later on the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program; he made his professional debut as Purcell’s Aeneas in Kraków in 1993, and represented his country at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 1999. He is particular associated with the title-roles of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Szymanowski’s Król Roger, all of which are available on DVD.

Kwiecień’s debut solo album, Slavic Heroes (including operatic arias by Tchaikovsky, Smetana, Moniuszko, Szymanowski and Rachmaninov) was released on Harmonia Mundi in 2012 (‘Kwiecieñ fields wide variety of dynamic and tone-colour to convey dramatic mood’ – Opera Magazine); his discography also includes Marcello (opposite Rolando Villazón’s Rodoflo and Anna Netrebko’s Mimì) on Bertrand de Billy’s 2007 recording of La bohème, Brahms’s German Requiem with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and Chopin songs with Aleksandra Kurzak and Nelson Goerne.

Find out more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariusz_Kwiecień

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Recording of the Week, Diana Damrau sings in Bizet's The Pearl Fishers from the Met

13th January 2017

Katherine enjoys a new staging of Bizet's glorious exotic opera, starring Diana Damrau, Matthew Polenzani and Mariusz Kwiecien.

Recording of the Week, Mariusz Kwiecień

9th January 2012

The charismatic Polish baritone’s debut solo album offers a compellingly sung and splendidly varied gallery of ‘Slavic Heroes’, including Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin and Mazeppa, Szymanowski’s King Roger, Rachmaninov’s Aleko and Borodin’s Prince Igor, as well as two arias from operas by his compatriot Moniuszko.

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