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), 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), Arena di Verona (Nabucco, Aida, Turandot, La bohème), Roma Opera (Aida, Tristan und Isolde), Moscow’s Bolshoi (Don Carlo, The Maid of Pskov, Prince Igor, Onegin), Teatro Real in Madrid (The Magic Flute, Aida), Teatro Reggio Turin (Don Carlo), Teatro Comunale Bologna (Norma), Teatro Reggio Parma
(Simon Boccanegra, Luisa Miller), or the New National Theatre Tokyo (Don Carlo, The Flying Dutchman) under such masters 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 by Franco Zeffirelli, Pierluigi Pier’Alli, Willy Decker, Jonathan Miller, David McVicar, Mariusz Treliński, Hugo de Ana, or Adrian Noble.
He has recored Verdi’s Requiem under Zubin Mehta for TDK and for Medici Art under Lorin Maazel, Puccini’s Edgar alongside Plácido Domingo for Deutsche Grammophon, Luisa Miller for Unitel, Beethoven’s 9th Symphony under Lorin Maazel for Kultur, and Norma for Hardy Classic.