Sławecki, Michał
graduated from the Vocal Department of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where he studied with Artur Stefanowicz. While still a student, he made his operatic debut as Prince Orlofsky in Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II at Opera at the Castle in Szczecin and as Nero in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Collegium Nobilium Theatre in Warsaw.
He has appeared at the Warsaw Philharmonic, Szczecin Philharmonic, Baltic Philharmonic, Silesian Opera, Polish Theatre in Warsaw, Polish National Opera, Polish Royal Opera, Grand Theatre in Łódź, Royal Castle in Warsaw, Opera Nova, National Forum of Music, the concert hall of the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice, and Polish Radio’s Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio.
He has also performed internationally at leading opera houses and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan in Japan, Saaremaa Opera Festival in Estonia, Festival Musica in Strasbourg, Dresden Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, as well as in Belgium, Kazakhstan, China, Serbia, and South Africa. His concert repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary music. His operatic roles include the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas; Sesto in Handel’s Giulio Cesare; the title role in Handel’s Rinaldo; Nero in Handel’s Agrippina; Prince Orlofsky in Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus; Nero in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea; the Angel in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice; Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro; Stéphano in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette; the title role in Sławomir Kupczak’s Voyager; Andy in Olga Neuwirth’s Lost Highway; Jesus in Sławomir Kupczak’s Cud Niedokonany (The Unperformed Miracle); Horse/Sailor in Rafał Janiak’s Człowiek z Manufaktury (The Man from the Manufactory); the Spirit in Kaija Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains; Raphael and Death in Krzysztof Penderecki’s Paradise Lost; and Witold Gombrowicz in Michał Dobrzyński’s HISTORY.
He cooperates regularly with leading Polish composers. He has performed Paweł Mykietyn’s Shakespeare’s Sonnets in Rome (Corso Polonia – Festival delle Arti Unite), Malta (Teatru Manoel – Concert of Polish Contemporary Music Masters), Freiburg (Post Fine Arts), Lviv (17th International Contemporary Music Festival), South Africa (National Arts Festival, 2015), and Poznań (Nostalgia Festival, 2017). He performed Wojciech Błażejczyk’s Fake Opera at the 2021 Warsaw Autumn Festival, Sławomir Kupczak’s Voyager at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, and works by Rafał Ryterski at the 2022 Warsaw Autumn Festival. He also recorded Agata Zubel’s opera Oresteia for Polish Radio, in addition to numerous radio and television recordings.