Music Director

   He graduated in conducting from the State Higher School of Music in Warsaw, in the symphonic and opera conducting class of Prof. Bogusław Madey. While still a student, he was hired by the Teatr Wielki in Łódź, where he went through all the career levels (assistant conductor, conductor, vocal manager, conductor – head of the orchestra), to be the theatre's artistic director in 1981-1987. With the Łódź Teatr Wielki's ensemble and stars such as Maria Chiara, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nunzio Todisco and Ivo Vinco, in 1985 he inaugurated the activity of the restored Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina. In 1987-1992 he was the principal conductor of the Macedonian National Opera and the Macedonian National Philharmonic in Skopje as well as giving concerts in other cities around the country and conducting many guest performances at the Croatian National Opera in Zagreb.

   After returning to Poland, in 1996-1998 he was the artistic director of the Music Theatre in Łódź. He was again appointed artistic director of the Teatr Wielki in Łódź in September 1998, and has been its principal conductor since 2000. He has prepared 36 premieres for this theatre, including the Polish premieres of Glass's “Akhnaten”, Poulenc's “Les Dialogues des Carmélites”, Khachaturian's “Gayane”, and Kander's musical “Zorba” as well as the premieres of Boito's “Mephistopheles”, Wagner's “Die Walküre” (the first post-war production in Poland), Bellini's “Norma”, Beethoven's “Fidelio”, Tchaikovsky's “Eugene Onegin” and “Swan Lake”, Moniuszko's “Halka”, Mussorgsky's “Boris Godunov”, Verdi's “La Traviata”, “Macbeth” and “Il Trovatore”, Donizetti's “L'Elisir d'Amore”, Bellini's “I Puritani”, and other works.

   In 2001-2002 he was the artistic director of the Opera and Operetta in Cracov. His repertoire encompasses more than 70 operas, ballets, and operettas. He has conducted over 2,500 performances and symphony and chamber concerts, and has given guest performances in almost all of Europe.

   At the Polish National Opera, he conducts performances of Puccini's “Madame Butterfly”, Minkus's „La Bayadère”, Moniuszko's „The Haunted Manor”, Donizetti's „Lucrezia Borgia”, Wagner/de Vlieger's „Tristan”, Verdi's "Nabucco" and Strauss's "Elektra". As of September 1, 2009 he was appointed music director of the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera.

 

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