Performers
Wojciech Drabowicz
Wojciech Drabowicz was a singer (baritone), born in Poznań in 1966; he died in an accident in 2007. He graduated from the class of Antonina Kawecka at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. Already as a student he won prestigious distinctions, including first prizes at the 4th National Adam Didur Opera Singers’ Competition at the Silesian Opera in Bytom and at the International Hans Gabor Belvedere Singing Competition in Vienna.
He made his debut in 1990 at the Grand Theatre in Poznań in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In later years he performed the role some 140 times on leading stages around the world, including numerous appearances at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He was a regular guest at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and other opera houses in Europe and Japan. He gave an outstanding interpretation of the title role in Szymanowski’s King Roger. Under the baton of Charles Dutoit he appeared in this work in performances in Montreal, at Carnegie Hall in New York and in Tokyo. He also worked with other eminent artists, including the director Peter Brook, as well as Claudio Abbado, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Kent Nagano.
He was a valued interpreter of contemporary music, including works by Witold Lutosławski, Eugeniusz Knapik, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Péter Eötvös cast him as Vershinin in his opera Three Sisters, based on Anton Chekhov’s play. Drabowicz also took part in a recording of that opera.
He taught at his „alma mater”.
Phot. Agnieszka Zakrzewska
He made his debut in 1990 at the Grand Theatre in Poznań in the title role of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In later years he performed the role some 140 times on leading stages around the world, including numerous appearances at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He was a regular guest at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and other opera houses in Europe and Japan. He gave an outstanding interpretation of the title role in Szymanowski’s King Roger. Under the baton of Charles Dutoit he appeared in this work in performances in Montreal, at Carnegie Hall in New York and in Tokyo. He also worked with other eminent artists, including the director Peter Brook, as well as Claudio Abbado, Sir Charles Mackerras, and Kent Nagano.
He was a valued interpreter of contemporary music, including works by Witold Lutosławski, Eugeniusz Knapik, and Krzysztof Penderecki. Péter Eötvös cast him as Vershinin in his opera Three Sisters, based on Anton Chekhov’s play. Drabowicz also took part in a recording of that opera.
He taught at his „alma mater”.
Phot. Agnieszka Zakrzewska
