Szymon Rona graduated in vocal performance from the Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz (2014), where he studied under Professor Hanna Michalak.
He received honourable mentions in the International Golden Voices Singing Competition in Warsaw (2011–2012) and reacted the finals of the 2nd Bogdan Paprocki Singing Competition in Bydgoszcz. In 2011–2013 he was awarded scholarships by the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
In 2014 he joined the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, where he has sung: Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Bohème, the title role in Gounod’s Faust, Nemorino in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, Tamino in Mozart's The Magic Flute, and Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff.
Apart from opera, he sings oratorios and cantatas (Beethoven’s Christ on the Mount of Olives, Schubert’s Stabat Mater) and operettas (Camille de Rosillon in Lehar’s The Merry Widow, Edwin and Boni in Kalman’s Die Csárdásfürstin, and Alfred in J. Strauss’s The Bat).
He has performed with the Poznań Opera House, Opera na Zamku in Szczecin, Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic in Białystok, Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, Warmia and Mazury Philharmonic in Olsztyn, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonia Baltica in Słupsk, and the Mazovian Musical Theatre in Warsaw.
