Zbigniew Malak - opera singer, tenor

Hi, I am Zbigniew Malak, and I am a polish opera singer, tenor. I graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. During the studies I sang as Flute in B. Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (Teatr Wielki – Polish Opera Narodowa) and as Don Ottavio in W. A. Mozart's Don Giovanni (Warsaw Chamber Opera, Schlosstheater Rheinsberg)

My professional debut was in 2014 in Prague when I sang Narraboth in Strauss's Salome directed by Mariusz Treliński. My debut in Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera was in 2016, in R. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Ein Hirt, Junge Seeman) directed by Mariusz Treliński and conducted by Stefan Soltesz. Since then, I am showing up in Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera regularly singing W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (Tamino), B. Britten's Billy Budd (A Novice), S. Prokofiev's Fiery Angel (Glock, A Doctor), St. Moniuszko's Haunted Manor (Damazy) and Halka (Tenor solo) and K. Szymanowski's Harnasie (Tenor solo).

In Polish theaters I was showing up as Ismaele in Verdi's Nabucco (Baltic Opera Gdańsk, Podkarpacka Philharmonic), Nadir in G. Bizet's Les pêcheurs de perles (Baltic Opera Gdańsk), Almaviva in G. Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (Baltic Opera Gdańsk), Pastore in C. Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (Polish Royal Opera), Bastien in W. A. Mozart's Bastien et Bastienne (Polish Royal Opera)

In 2022, I had my debut in National Theater Brno as Tamino in W. A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. Then during Janaček Brno Festival 2022 I sang in L. Janaček's Z mrtveho domu.

I performed contemporary operas: P. Glass's The Trial as Franz and Block (Opera at the Castle of Szczecin), K. Knittel's The Final Judgment as Borghi, van Groote, Priest (Baltic Opera in Gdańsk) and E. Meier's, C. Rütti's, V. Villard's 13 Sternbilder aus dem Wallis (Théâtre La Poste, Visp, Switzerland) an original work to mark the 200th anniversary of Valais joining the Swiss Confederation.

In my repertoire are also concert and oratorios pieces as G. F. Händel's Messiah, W. A. Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem, J. Haydn's Die Schöpfung, G. Rossini's Petite messe solennelle, J. S. Bach's Magnificat and many others.

I sang in Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera, National Theater in Prague, National Theater in Brno, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Polish Royal Opera, Baltic Opera in Gdańsk, Opera at the Castle of Szczecin, Schlosstheater Rheinsberg, Warmia and Mazury Philharmonic, Kalisz Philharmonic, Podkarpacka Philharmonic and Poznań Philharmonic.