The Polish tenor Tadeusz Szlenkier is admired for his luminous spinto timbre and expressive phrasing across the Italian, German, and Polish repertoire.
Recent and upcoming engagements include his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Das Tier in Antikrist, Der Kaiser in Die Frau ohne Schatten, and Don Alvaro in La forza del destino at the Polish National Opera. He also appears as Ctirad in Šárka at the Prague National Theatre and as Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca at the Ópera Nacional de Chile and the Kraków Opera. Other highlights include Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci with the Opéra de Toulon, Opéra de Saint-Étienne, the Opera Dijon, and the title roles in Parsifal and Lohengrin at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. He also performs Silvanus Schuller in Penderecki’s Die schwarze Maske with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
His extensive repertoire includes Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, the Prince in Rusalka, Manrico in Il trovatore, the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Don José in Carmen, the title role in Don Carlo, Gustavo in Un ballo in maschera, Leicester in Maria Stuarda, Jontek in Halka, Shepherd in Szymanowski’s King Roger, Stefan in The Haunted Manor, Le Chevalier des Grieux in Manon, Ismaele in Nabucco, Sinodal in The Demon, and the Male Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia.
