Rafał Bartmiński
Graduate of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice in the Faculty of Vocal and Acting class of Eugeniusz Sąsiadek. A laureate of the International Ada Sari Competition of Vocal Art in Nowy Sącz (2001) and the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw (2007).
Already during his studies, he began concert activity, taking part in Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor and Magnificat, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem, among others. On the opera stage, he made his debut in 2002 as Lensky (Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin) at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera in Warsaw, with which he has worked ever since, singing such parts as Tamino (Mozart's Die Zauberflöte), Ismaele (Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco), Tamburmajor (Alban Berg's Wozzeck), Boris (Leoš Janáček's Katya Kabanová), Pinkerton (Giacomo Puccini's Madame Butterfly), Duca (Verdi's Rigoletto), Madwoman (Benjamin Britten's Curlew River), Stefan (Stanisław Moniuszko's The Haunted Manor) and Jontek (Moniuszko's Halka). The artist has also performed at the Wrocław, Krakow and Podlasie Opera, as well as in Riga, Wiesbaden, Madrid (Teatro Real), Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre), Paris (Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille), Linz and Wuppertal.
Many times he has participated in performances of Krzysztof Penderecki's works (Te Deum, Cosmogony, Credo, Seven Gates of Jerusalem, Polish Requiem).
Rafał Bartmiński has performed under the baton of such eminent conductors as Gabriel Chmura, Teodor Currentzis, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Tomas Hanus, Mariss Jansons, Jacek Kaspszyk, Hannu Lintu, Marc Minkowski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jerzy Semkow, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Andrzej Straszyński, Antoni Wit, Tadeusz Wojciechowski and Alberto Zedda. He has worked with well-known directors - David Alden, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Andrzej Domalik, Krystyna Janda, Tomasz Konina, Jakob Peters-Messer, Maciej Prus, Mariusz Treliński, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Michał Znaniecki, Krzysztof Zanussi and others.
[2023]