Jerzy Artysz

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Jerzy Artysz (born November 18, 1930 in Sochaczew ) is a Polish singer ( baritone ).

Artysz studied singing with Maria Halfter and violin at the State Music Academy in Warsaw and continued his singing training in Milan with Maria Carbone . He won singing competitions in Moscow (1957), Toulouse (1959) and Geneva (1960). He worked at the Łódź opera stage from 1958 and became a soloist at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw in 1964 . He has traveled all over the world as a singer, had appearances in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Spain, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, the Soviet Union, but also in Israel, Canada and the United States and performed many times take part in festivals such as Warsaw Autumn .

His operatic repertoire includes leading roles in works from the early baroque to the present day. He sang Ottone in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea , the title role in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Posa in Verdi's Don Carlos as well as the leading baritone roles in Richard Wagner's operas, Golaud in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande , the title role in Alban Berg's Wozzeck , Perl in Krzysztof Penderecki's Czarna maska and Ben in Gian Carlo Menotti's Das Telefon or Die Liebe zu Dreitte . At the world premiere of the opera Ignorant i szaleniec by Paweł Mykietyn in 2001 at Teatr Wielki , he played the role of the father.

From 1990 to 1994 Artysz was artistic director of the Barcelona Opera School. He was also a professor at the Music Academy in Warsaw, participated in international oratorio courses in Wrocław, Gdańsk and Bremen and participated as a juror in various music competitions. For his services to the promotion of contemporary Polish music, he received the Prize of the Polish Composers' Association in 1980 and the Prize of the Minister for Culture and the Arts in 1981. On his seventieth birthday, the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy (now the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music ) honored him with a gala concert at which he himself performed an aria from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo .

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SURNAME Artysz, Jerzy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Sochaczew