Polish baritone Artur Janda is praised for his expressive voice and compelling stage presence. His current and upcoming operatic appearances include Escamillo in Carmen at the Santiago de Chile Opera and Polish National Opera as well as Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, 2nd Soldier in Salome at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Truffaldino in Ariadne auf Naxos with Nederlandse Reisopera, Pizarro in Fidelio at Baltic Opera. He also sings Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro, Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Aeneas in Dido and Aeneas at the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and Alidoro in La Cenerentola at the Podlaska Opera.

Warsaw Chamber Opera, and Alidoro in La Cenerentola at the Podlaska Opera.On the concert platform, he appears in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Berlin Philharmonischer Chor and Łódź Philharmonic, Górecki’s Symphony No. 2 in Krakow, Penderecki’s Seven Gates of Jerusalem in Bydgoszcz, and Bach’s Magnificat at the Warsaw National Philharmonic.

Highlights of his operatic repertoire include title roles in Don Giovanni and Imeneo, as well as Achilla in Giulio Cesare, Selim in Il turco in Italia, Dulcamara in L’elisir d’amore, and the Provost Marshal in Hindemith’s Cardillac.

Janda has received two Fryderyk Awards for Best Polish Music Recording, including Early Music Album of the Year for Antonio Caldara – Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo. He has been nominated three times for the Jan Kiepura Theatre Music Award for Best Opera Singer.

A graduate of the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, he studied voice with Anna Radziejewska and piano with Kazimierz Gierżod.