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

On the concert platform, he appears in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Berlin Philharmoniker 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 Giulio Cesare, Selim Il turco in Italia, Dulcamara 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. He appears in Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the Berlin Philharmoniker 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.