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Mariusz Kwiecień (, born 4 November 1972) is a Polish operatic baritone who has sung leading roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America. He has received particular distinction in the title role of Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' which he has sung at the Vienna State Opera,〔Midgette, Anne, "Women Onstage and in the Pit at a Venerable Opera House", ''The New York Times'', 25 January 2005〕 Bilbao Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera,〔Rowe, Georgia, "Kwiecień exudes ''Don Giovanni''", ''The Contra Costa Times'', 31 May 2007〕 Santa Fe Opera,〔Smith, Craig, "Don Giovanni in excelsis at Santa Fe", ''The New Mexican'', 5 July 2004〕 Warsaw Opera, Royal Opera House, London,〔Gutman, David "Don Giovanni", 9 September 2008〕 and Seattle Opera where he won the company's 2006-2007 Artist of the Year award for this role,〔(Seattle Opera ) (accessed 24 September 2007)〕 and the Metropolitan Opera. Kwiecień studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music and began his professional career as Aeneas in Purcell's ''Dido and Aeneas'' at the Kraków Opera in 1993. In 1995 he sang the title role in ''The Marriage of Figaro'' in Luxembourg and Poznań, and made his Warsaw Opera debut the following year as Stanisław in Moniuszko's rarely performed ''Verbum Nobile''.〔(Naxos Records ) (accessed 24 September 2007)〕 Debuts in major European and American opera houses soon followed. A former student of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he made his Met debut in 1999 as Kuligin in Janáček's ''Káťa Kabanová''. By 2003 he was singing leading baritone roles there including Marcello in ''La bohème'' (2003), Silvio in ''Pagliacci'' (2004), Count Almaviva in ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (2005), Guglielmo in ''Così fan tutte'' (2005), Dr. Malatesta in ''Don Pasquale'' (2006), and Enrico in ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' (2007).〔(The Metropolitan Opera Archives ) (accessed 24 September 2007)〕 Kwiecień has won awards in several international voice competitions, including the Vienna State Opera and Hamburg State Opera Prizes in the 1996 Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition, and the Mozart Interpretation Prize and Audience Choice Award in the 1998 Francisco Viñas Competition in Barcelona. He was also selected to represent Poland in the 1999 Cardiff Singer of the World competition.〔(Naxos Records ) (accessed 24 September] 2007)〕 ==Recordings== *''Slavic Heroes'' Mariusz Kwiecien arias from Russian (Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, Mazeppa, Prince Igor, Aleko, Sadko), Polish (Halka, The Haunted Manor, Verbum nobile, King Roger) and Czech (The Cunning Peasant, The Devil's Wall) operas. Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lukasz Borowicz. HMF *''A Night At The Opera'' (Kristine Jepson, Mariusz Kwiecień, Matthew Polenzani, Valerian Ruminski, Indra Thomas, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Rosekranz) Naxos 8557309 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mariusz Kwiecień」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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