Dariusz Machej
Cinderella at the Warsaw Chamber Opera under the direction of Stefan Sutkowski. With the WOK ensemble, he sang main roles in countries including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Lebanon, and Japan.He collaborates with: Teatr Wielki-Polish National Opera, Polish Royal Opera, Warsaw Chamber Opera, Opera Lubelska. He has also collaborated with Anhaltisches Theater Dessau, Oper Frankfurt am Main, Wuppertaler Bühnen, Wiener Kammeroper, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, Theater der Stadt Koblenz, Samsung Performing Arts Theater / Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, NOSPR, and the National Philharmonic. He has participated in numerous music festivals such as: Rossini Opera Festival (Pesaro), Festival de Musique de Strasbourg, „Rossini in Wildbad” Belcanto Opera Festival (Germany), Euroradio/EBU Summer Music Festival (Warsaw), Festival di Musica Sacra „Anima Mundi” (Pisa), Internationalen Maifestspiele (Wiesbaden), International Moniuszko Festival, Warsaw Autumn, Wratislavia Cantans, Bydgoszcz Opera Festival, Adam Didur Festival (Sanok), and the Karol Kurpiński International Music Festival. He participated in the world premieres of Schwertsik's opera Katzelmacher (Wuppertal, 2003) and Krauze's Iwona, Princess of Burgundia (Paris, 2004).
The artist also performs in oratorical and song repertoire. He has participated in numerous radio and television broadcasts (RAI, Südwestrundfunk, Polskie Radio, TVP, Polsat). He has made many recordings for record companies (Naxos, ROF, Bongiovanni, DUX, Radiowa Agencja Fonograficzna) and the archive of Polish Radio. The recording of Szymanowski's Hagith featuring the artist received a Fryderyk 2020 award in the Classical Music: Album of the Year Oratorio and Opera Music category, and the recording of Noskowski's Zemsta za mur graniczny received a Fryderyk 2024 in the same category. In 2024, he obtained a doctoral degree in musical arts from the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music.
Photo: Dariusz Machej @Mirosław Pietruszyński
