© Andrzej Świetlik
© Andrzej Świetlik

Andrzej Dobber

– World management –

Polish baritone Andrzej Dobber has established himself as one of the preeminent interpreters in his vocal range.

 

He has sung at theaters like the Royal Opera, Paris Opera, Liceu in Barcelona, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, La Scala in Milan, Zurich Opera House, Geneva Grand Theatre, the State Operas in Vienna, Munich, and Hamburg, Semperoper Dresden, the three opera houses in Berlin, TWON Warsaw, Mariinsky in St. Petersburg and others. He has performed at the MET in New York, in Chicago, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile, as well as at the NNT Tokyo and in Hong Kong. Additionally, he has participated in numerous festivals, including Glyndebourne, Savonlinna, Orange, and Verona.

In addition to roles in the Italian operatic repertoire, such as Amonasro in Aida, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Ezio in Attila, Scarpia in Tosca, Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Nabucco, Simone Boccanegra, Rigoletto, Macbeth, and Falstaff, Mr. Dobber has also portrayed the title roles in Prince Igor and Der fliegende Holländer, Tomski in Pique Dame, Jochanaan in Salome, Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten, Don Pizarro in Fidelio, and Amfortas in Parsifal, among others.

 

He has collaborated with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Vladimir Jurowski, Kirill Petrenko, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Roger Norrington, Renato Palumbo, Kazushi Ono, Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann, Daniele Rustioni, Carlo Rizzi, Fabio Luisi, Kent Nagano, Simone Young, and Dan Ettinger.

 

Andrzej Dobber has also worked with stage directors such as Harry Kupfer, Eimuntas Nekrošius, Andreas Homoki, Franco Zeffirelli, Willy Decker, Robert Wilson, Richard Jones, and many others.

 

In 2024, he has received an appointment as professor at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan, and as artistic director of the International Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition in Bytom.

 

In acknowledgement of his artistic achievements, the city-state of Hamburg awarded him the honorific “Kammersänger” in 2015. In 2013, he received the Gloria Artis Medal, the highest decoration awarded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland, as well as the Fryderyk Statuette in 2014, the award given for achievements in music by the Phonographic Academy of Poland.

September 2024 – For the most recent biography, please contact Bartosz Jakóbczak