Biography Highlights
Recent & Upcoming Engagements
Return to Arena di Verona as Ramfis Aida and Zaccaria Nabucco, debut at the Royal Opera House and Semperoper Dresden as Vodnik Rusalka, Il Grande Inquisitore Don Carlo at Staatsoper Berlin, return to Teatro Colón Buenos Aires as Sarastro Die Zauberflöte and Zaccaria Nabucco, return to Teatro Lirico di Cagliari as Mefistofele, as well as his return to Polish National Opera as Creonte Medea and to Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Il Padre Guardiano La forza del destino.
Past Engagements
Zaccaria Nabucco at Arena di Verona, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro di San Carlo, Il Grande Inquisitore Don Carlo at Teatro alla Scala, Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Berlin, Teatro Real Madrid, Padre Guardiano La forza del destino with Opéra national de Paris, Boris Godunov and Ivan the Terrible at Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Sarastro Die Zauberflöte at Teatro alla Scala, Timur Turandot, Commendatore Don Giovanni at Arena di Verona, König Marke Tristan und Isolde at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Oroveso Norma at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Colline La bohème, Ferrando Il trovatore at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Concert Work
Under the baton of Lorin Maazel, he has sung in Verdi’s Requiem in Milan, Venice, Casablanca, Busseto, Assisi and Jerusalem, and in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Milan, Rome, the Vatican, Brussels and Taormina. He has also worked with Zubin Mehta at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, in Verdi’s Requiem, and at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Audiences in Verona have heard Siwek in Rossini’s Stabat mater, conducted by Alberto Zedda. At the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he has sung Thibaut d’Arc in Tchaikovsky’s The Maid of Orleans. With Fabio Lusi he sung Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at the Teatro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Recordings
Rafał Siwek’s discography includes two recordings of Verdi’s Requiem, under Zubin Mehta for TDK and with Lorin Maazel for Medici Arts, Puccini’s Edgar for Deutsche Grammophon with Plácido Domingo, Luisa Miller for Unitel, Norma for Hardy Classic and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Maazel for Kultur, Nabucco and Don Giovanni for BelAir at the Arena di Verona among others.