At this page I’m trying to post everything interesting in terms of my artistic career and that is what one can mainly find here. But not only. I do post other, more personal or private content.
Therefore I’ve decided to define it with both names from the title. If you are interested in where, when and what do I perform, just choose „news” category from the sidebar on the left. If you’d like to read what inspires me and what other content do I post, than choose „blog” category.
Of course there are and will appear such posts that belong to both categories. It means that i just write something more personal about some performance or other stage appearance. Those might be the most interesting!
In the „news” category I’ll be trying to write in english, while in „blog” mainly in polish. If there is anything of your particular interest written in polish and after having tried translators you would like to enquire more, do not hesitate to ask.
I’m glad to come back to Germany after around one year’s absence to sing magnificent Requiem d-moll written by W. A. Mozart. It will be a pleasure to meet and perform again with my great colleagues from ensemble artists e.V.
We have already started rehearsing. The new production of G. Rossini opera „Il barbiere di Siviglia” is in the preparation modus with opening night planned for the 20th of December 2019
a mojego debiutu można było wysłuchać w zeszłym tygodniu na falach Radia Opole.
Dziś o godzinie 23:00 premiera całości słuchowiska autorstwa Jacka Mielcarka pt. „Jak cień własnego cienia” na falach tegoż samego Radia Opole. Szczegóły tutaj.
Certainly it has been the most demanding artistic experience of the season and one of the most important in my artistic life.
M. Wajnberg – „O siwa mgło” (Oh, grey mist), words: Julian Tuwim Tomasz Raff – bass, Mischa Kozłowski – piano Live performance, 16.02.19, POLIN Music Festival
On the 16th of February 2019 at POLIN Museum in Warsaw during POLIN Music Festival 2019 we have staged an extraordinary musical poem about M. Wajnberg – „M. Wajnberg. Epitaph”.
Credits: POLIN Museum Warsaw
Only a year before the premiere all M. Wajnberg songs for bass and piano that served as a musical basis of the performance, were lying in manuscript form only, not having been sung in public.
Naprawdę wyrazy uznania należą się tu basowi Tomaszowi Raffowi, który to wszystko śpiewa, a przy tym odgrywa rolę samego kompozytora, oraz pianiście Mischy Kozłowskiemu, odgrywającemu tu Szostakowicza. Obaj są naprawdę świetni, a muzyka jest – jak trafnie stwierdziła moja siostra – hipnotyzująca.
By staging „M. Wajnberg. Epitaph” we have not only premiered the songs but also told the story, parts of which happen in our lives. I strongly believe, the story of M. Wajnberg’s life reflects our lives, particularly during those moments, we do not want to think of. Moments of neglection, helplessness and, eventually the shade of nearing death, coming sometimes as a relief. But also moments of life saving wonders, that were nothing more and nothing less than the subtle touch of God..
Credits: POLIN Museum Warsaw M. Wajnberg – Tryptyk (Triptychon) op. 99 words: L. Staff Tomasz Raff – bass, Mischa Kozłowski – piano Live performance, 16.02.19, POLIN Music Festival
M. Wajnberg – Epitaph
16.02.19 POLIN Music Festival Warsaw
Performers:
Wajnberg: Tomasz Raff
Father: Linus Roth
Shostakovich: Mischa Kozłowski
Muse: Aleksandra Klimczak
Direction: Natalia Babińska
Playwright: Agata Wieczyńska
Set Design: Diana Marszałek
Video: Paweł Nowik, Zuzanna Grzegorowska
The list of M. Wajnberg songs performed:
Tryptyk (Triptychon) op. 99 words L. Staff (Shade, Autumn, Silent Fame)
From „M. Wajnberg. Epitaph” played at Polin Music Festival 2019 Credits: Magdalena Starowieyska, POLIN Museum
As Zbigniew from „The haunted Manor” at Royal Polish Opera in Warsaw I have ended the season 2018/19.
I am glad and grateful for everything that has happened during this great artistic season. Let the 2019/20 be even more fruitful in great artistic and life experiences!
„It’s a haunted, very haunted manor….” sings the main male character, Stefan, in his grand aria in the 3rd Act of „The Haunted Manor” – national polish opera composed by Stanisław Moniuszko, who’d be 200 years old on the 5th of May 2019.
Yesterday, once more, I sang the role of Zbigniew – Stefan’s elder brother – second main male character of the piece.
It was the last stage production of Ryszard Peryt, general director of Royal Polish Opera. Having set the staging with symbols referring to the past that somehow still lives in and around us, the recent Mr. Peryt’s passing puts Royal Polish Opera’s „Haunted Manor” in a transcendent light.
I won’t even try to verbalise something non-verbalisable, only to say that this extraordinary staging confirms what we often do not want to accept or even remember of: what we see and are able to understand, is only one small layer of the reality we live in.
I also strongly believe that the very last scene announces the true legacy of Mr. Peryt’s Opus. Requiescat in Pace…
….per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes anthe thronum.
By this famous excerpt from Dies Irae sequence starts every bass his adventure with Mozart’s Requiem
I’m glad to announce that on the 20th of October 2018 in Warsaw I’m about to sing it again too, together with many of my good colleagues and great friends.
It’s a blessing to sing such music, I also feel blessed to perform it in a company of friends, I hope we’d all be even more blessed to sing it for a public consisting of YOU!
