Andrzej Filończyk

Born in 1994, Andrzej Filończyk completed his studies at the Academy of Music in Wrocław under the guidance of Bogdan Makal. He was a member of the Polish National Opera’s Young Talents Program under Eytan Pessen as well as the International Opera Studio in Zürich. He participated in the 2016 Salzburg Festival Young Singers Project and returned to the Salzburg Festival in 2017 as Gubetta in Lucrezia Borgia.

Filończyk made his opera debut as Tonio in Pagliacci in 2015 at Teatr Wielki in Poznań under the baton of Gabriel Chmura. He returned in 2016 as Eugene Onegin. His many awards include first prize at the Ninth International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition. Other appearances include Rossini’s Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Zürich Opernhaus and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow; Guglielmo Cecil in Maria Stuarda at the Zürich Opernhaus; Silvio in Pagliacci at Teatro Regio di Turin and Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London; Marcello in La Bohème with the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto; and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro San Carlo.

He recently sang Pagliacci in a semi-staged production for NDR, Die tote Stadt at Bayerische Staatsoper, and La Bohème at the Royal Opera House. Other recent performances include I Puritani at Oper Frankfurt, Don Giovanni at Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Opéra de Paris, and Teatro Regio di Parma; La Bohème at Teatro San Carlo and Teatro Real de Madrid; and Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House and Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Other engagements in the 2023-24 season included singing the title roles of Don Giovanni at Wiener Staatsoper and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Rossini Opera Festival.

Filończyk has worked with conductors such as Nicola Luisotti, Daniele Gatti, Emmanuel Villaume, and Pier Giorgio Morandi, among others, as well as with stage directors such as Damiano Michieletto, Emma Dante, Mario Martone, and Richard Jones.