Andrzej Dobber

 

 
 Andrzej Dobber
Baritone

  Andrzej Dobber was born in Krakow, Poland, and began his studies at the Conservatory of his home town before attending the Meistersinger Conservatory in Nuremberg, Germany. He soon made his debut at the Nuremberg opera house, first as a bass, and later on as a baritone (Count di Luna in Il Trovatore, Tonio in Pagliacci, Amfortas in Parsifal, Wolfram in Tannhäuser).

After winning the first prize at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich in 1990, his career began to take an international shape: he was invited to sing at the opera houses in Frankfurt (where was an ensemble member from 1991 to 1994), Komische Oper Berlin, Leipzig, Cologne, Dresden Semper Oper, Essen, Toulouse, Montpellier, Malaga, Munich Bavarian State Opera, Vienna Volksoper, Warsaw National Opera, Florence, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Amsterdam and La Scala in Milan, where he made his debut in 2001 as Monterone in Rigoletto and Count di Luna in Il Trovatore under the direction of Riccardo Muti.

Andrzej Dobber`s repertoire includes major Verdi roles in Il Trovatore, Nabucco, Aida, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, Don Carlo, Un Ballo in Maschera, La Traviata and La Forza del Destino, as well as the lead roles in Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, Onegin, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Les Contes d`Hoffmann, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Neues vom Tage (Hindemith), The Birds (Braunfels), Farinelli (Matthus) and The Haunted Manor (Moniuszko).

He has worked with conductors of international renown such as Gary Bertini, Silvain Cambreling, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Colin Davis, Zubin Metha, Sir Roger Norrington, Arnold Ostmann, Helmut Rilling, Carlo Rizzi, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Stefan Soltesz, Pinchas Steinberg, Christian Thielemann and Edo de Waart. In Poland he has collaborated with Jacek Kaspszyk, Grzegorz Nowak and Kazimierz Kord. On the concert platform Andrzej Dobber has performed with major European orchestras including the Bavarian and Berlin Radio Symphonies, the Berlin Symphony, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Munich Philharmonic, the South German and Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestras.