Rafał Siwek has made his name as an excellent Verdi interpreter. A prize-winner of numerous international singing competitions, he is regularly invited to perform on prestigious opera stages: Milan’s Teatro alla Scala (The Magic Flute, Don Carlo), Paris Opera (Lohengrin, Lucia di Lammermoor, Rigoletto, La forza del destino), Royal Opera House in London (Rusalka), Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper (Aida, Don Carlo, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Turandot, Onegin, Siegfried), Opernhaus Zurich (Don Carlo, Aida, Don Giovanni), Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Don Carlo, Aida), Deutsche Oper Berlin (Don Giovanni), Staatsoper Hamburg (Prince Igor), Semperoper Dresden (Rusalka), Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam (Rigoletto and Don Giovanni), Arena di Verona (Nabucco, Aida, Turandot, La bohème), Roma Opera (Aida, Tristan und Isolde), Teatro Massimo in Palermo (Simon Boccanegra), Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Nabucco), Moscow’s Bolshoi (Don Carlo, The Maid of Pskov, Prince Igor, Boris Godunov), Teatro Real in Madrid (The Magic Flute, Aida, Don Carlo), Teatro Reggio Turin (Don Carlo), Teatro Comunale Bologna (Norma, La forza del destino), Teatro Reggio Parma (Simon Boccanegra, Luisa Miller), Teatro Lirico di Cagliari (Tchaikovsky's Iolanta), Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires (Nabucco, The Magic Flute), and the New National Theatre Tokyo (Don Carlo, The Flying Dutchman) under such high-profile conductors as Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Fabio Luisi, Valery Gergiev, Kent Nagano, Alberto Zedda, Semyon Bychkov, Daniel Oren, Kiril Petrenko, or Marco Armiliato and in productions directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Pierluigi Pier’Alli, Willy Decker, Jonathan Miller, David McVicar, Mariusz Treliński, Hugo de Ana, Stefano Poda, and Adrian Noble.
Oratorios hold a special place in his repertoire, among them Mozart's Requiem and Verdi's Messa da Requiem, which he has performed in Milan, Venice, Casablanca, Busseto, Assisi, Cagliari, on tour in Spain, and in Jerusalem.
He has recorded numerous CDs and DVDs of performances and concerts, including: Verdi's Messa da Requiem under the baton of Zubin Mehta for TDK and for Medici Arts with Lorin Maazel; Puccini's Edgar alongside Plácida Domingo for Deutsche Grammophon, Luiza Miller for Unitel, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under Lorin Maazel for Kultur, Norma for Hardy Classic, Nabucco and Don Giovanni at the Arena di Verona for BelAir Classiques, and recordings of operas, oratorios and cantata works by Polish composers (Moniuszko, Penderecki, Nowowiejski, Kilar).
