Szymon Mechliński

The second prize winner of 2022 Moniuszko competition, Mechliński’s 2023/24 season sees the baritone making his debut in Teatro Massimo Palermo as Sharpless Madama Butterfly as well as his return to Warsaw Teatr Wielki as Marcello La boheme, Amonasro Aida and Francesco Cenci Beatrix Cenci, and to Poznan Opera as Miecznik The Haunted Manor.

Future seasons include his debuts at the Teatro Real Madrid, Canadian Opera Company and Santa Fe Opera.

Past season was marked with debut at Teatro Regio di Parma as Count di Luna Il Trovatore, Dutch National Opera as Lord Guglielmo Ceci Maria Stuarda, return to Warsaw Teatr Wielki as Marcello La Boheme, and to Wroclaw as Miecznik The Haunted Manor, Ottokar Die Freischütz, Marcello La Boheme.

Recent season engagements include debut with Teatro alla Scala Milano with the title role of Krol Roger (cover)*, Finnish National Opera as Silvio Pagliacci, return to Wroclaw Opera as Ottokar Freischutz, Lescaut Manon and Marcello La Boheme, return to Polish National Opera as Escamillo Carmen and in a newly discovered opera B. Radziwiłłówna as Gasztold. He was also seen at Glasgow Scottish Opera with the role of Duke The Miserly Knight*, Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza with Guglielmo Così fan tutti, Finnish National Opera with Leoncavallo I Pagliacci, Marcello La boheme with Polish National Opera*.

Other engagements highlights included Mechlinski’s return to Wexford Opera Festival for the production of The Veiled Prophet, appearances with the Opera de Lyon as Strahlbusch in the new production of Schreker’s Irrelohe, Nationaltheater Mannheim as Fillipe Maria Visconti Beatrice di Tenda, Polish Warsaw National Philharmonic in the role of Ryx in Cassanova, Poznan Opera as Lescaut Manon Lescaut, and Opera Wroclaw in the role of Dandini La Cenerentola.

Recent engagements of note include Dr Malatesla in Don Pasquale and Luigi in Il Bravo with the Wexford Festival Opera, Foka in Enchantress at the Opera de Lyon, the title role in Eugene Onegin at the Theater Dortmund and Opera de Toulon, Yamadori in Madama Butterfly at the Glyndebourne Festival, Fritz Die Tote Stadt at the Polish National Opera on tour, Raimbaud in Le Comte Ory at the Dorset Opera Festival, and Marcello La bohème at the Gdansk’s Baltic State Opera.

Mechlisnki’s other notable artistic collaborations include Opera Śląska in Bytom, Silesian Philharmonic, National Museum in Warsaw (Królikarnia Palace) and Feliks Nowowiejski Museum in Poznań where he is a regularly invited recitalist and could be heard as Fiorello in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, The Clock in L’enfant et les Sortileges, 3rd Slave in Die Zauberflöte, The Count in Le Nozze di Figaro, Baritone in Stabat Mater by Szymanowski, Marcello in La Boheme.

Mechlinski holds BM and MM degrees with distinction from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy, Poznań where he studied with Prof. Jerzy Mechliński, Prof. Iwona Kowalkowska and Gabriela Klima – Kściuczyk. Mechlinski continues studies with Maestro Giorgio Zancanaro.

*Canceled due to covid

In the picture: Szymon Mechliński, photo: Karpati&Zarewicz