Mikołaj Trąbka
Baritone
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Mikołaj Trąbka joined the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt in 2018/19. His roles during the 2024/25 season include Almaviva in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro, the House Boy in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Marullo in Rigoletto. Last season this Polish baritone sang Malatesta & Mathes in new productions of Don Pasquale and Zemlinsky's George the Dreamer, De Siriex in Giodarno's Fedora and Milord Arespingh in our very amusing production of Cimarosa's L'italiana in Londra. He recently enjoyed great success here with roles including Dandini in La Cenerentola, the title role in Eugene Onegin, the King in a wonderful production of Orff's The Clever Woman, a Slapstick Artist in Schreker's The Elusive Sound and Háraschta in Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen. In previous seasons he also sang Robert (role debut) in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Moralès / Dancaïro in Carmen, and made his debut at the 2022 Salzburg Festival in Gianni Schicchi. Other roles in Frankfurt have included Andrei in a new production of Eötvös' Tri sestry / Three Sisters, Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Filippo in a new Rossini's La gazzetta, roles in Daphne, Wozzeck, Saytricon and in an online evening of Tchaikovsky Lieder, staged by Christof Loy, Nicholas (Barber's Vanessa) and Donald (Billy Budd). This former member of the Opera Studio studied at the Teatr / Opera Narodowa's Opera Academy in Warsaw, where he sang Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), a role he also sang in South Korea, and in Jan Stefani's Cud albo Krakowiaki i Górale / A Miracle or Cracovians and Highlanders. He sang Harlekin in Ariadne at the Opéra National de Montpellier and at the Deutsch Oper am Rhein in 2019, returning to Montpellier in 2024 for Marcello in Puccini's La bohème. Other recent guest engagements inclued Malatesta at the Staatstheater in Karlsruhe, Marullo at the Staatsoper in Hannover, Pappacoda (A Night in Venice), Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia), the world premiere of Włodzimierz Korcz’ Łódź Story at the Teatr Wielki in Łódź and in Bydgoszcz. He made his debut as Belcore in a new production of L'elisir d'amore at the Tirol Festival in Erl, where he returned in 2023 to sing one of his favourite roles, the Minstrel in Humperdinck's Königskinder. He sang Papageno with the Komische Oper Berlin on tour to South Korea in 2017 and again to Macau and Taiwan in 2019. He won the 2018 Stella Maris Singing Competition and Opera Bucharest's 2015 Grand Prix.