ADAM KRUSZEWSKI

The baritone Adam Kruszewski graduated at the Warsaw Academy of Music in 1985. He was a prize-winner at the International Vocal Competition in 's-Hertogenbosch in The Netherlands in 1987, the 1988 Jan Kiepura Competition in Krynica and in 1989 in international vocal competitions in Rio de Janeiro and in Nantes. After his graduation, he joined the Warsaw Chamber Opera, where he sang the leading baritone parts in operas by Donizetti, Mozart and Rossini, appearing in a number of theatres throughout Europe. In the 1990/91 season he was a soloist with the Wiener Kammeroper, singing the part of Malatesta in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, and going on tour in Japan, South Korea and China. He has worked with the Grand Theatre - National Opera since 1993, singing parts that have included those of Adam in Penderecki’s Paradise Lost, the title rôle in Verdi’s Macbeth and Anckarström in Un ballo in maschera, Albert in Massenet’s Werther, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Sword-bearer in Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor, and the title rôle in Don Giovanni. He has appeared in concert and in opera in a number of countries, and has recorded for Polish and foreign record companies.

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