From the 2021/22 season, Michał Prószyński is a member of Oper Bern, where his repertoire ranges from Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte to Mime in Wagner’s Das Rheingold. During the 2023/24 season, he will sing his first Pedrillo in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail and Steva in Janáček’s Jenůfa.
In 2022, the Polish tenor made his debut at Verbier Festival in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera as well as in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. In 2020, he was to sing Roderick Usher in Glass‘ The Fall of the House of Usher, accompanied by Munich Jewish Chamber Orchestra, but the production had to be postponed due to Covid-19. In 2021, he made his debut at Schlossfestspiele Ettlingen as Alfred in a new production of Strauß’ Die Fledermaus. Michał Prószyński worked with directors including David Bösch, Elmar Goerden, Ewelina Marciniak, Amélie Niermeyer, Silvia Paoli, Aron Stiehl, and Marco Štorman.
The tenor made his stage debut in 2015, singing the leading role of Antonio in Moniuszko’s Nocleg w Apeninach (Night camp in the Apennines). The tenor appeared as a guest at Staatstheater Braunschweig between 2018 and 2020, singing Vicomte Cascada in Lehár’s The Merry Widow under the baton of music director Srba Dinić and Abdallo in a new production of Verdi’s Nabucco at Domplatz Open Air 2019. In 2017, Michał Prószyński performed Brahms’ Neue Liebeslieder Walzer, op. 65 at the 2nd Voice and Piano Chamber Music Festival in Kraków and Harlequin in Szymanowski’s Mandragora at the 8th Festival of Polish Music with Kraków Philharmonic.
In 2022, Michał Prószyński has sung Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Filharmonia Narodowa Warszawa and Mahler’s Das klagende Lied with Berner Symphonieorchester and Dvořák’s Stabat Mater in 2023. He performed under the baton of conductors including Daniel Carter, Nicholas Carter, Srba Dinić, Yoel Gamzou, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Gianandrea Noseda, Sebastian Schwab, and Jan Willem de Vriend and was accompanied by orchestras such as AUKSO Orkiestra, Berner Symphonieorchester, Orkiestra Filharmonii Narodowej, Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, Staatsorchester Braunschweig, and Verbier Festival Orchestra. In May 2022, he made his debut at the Munich Festival Stars & Rising Stars.
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Handel: Israel in Egypt HWV 54
Live recording: 2022