Baritone
A graduate of the Academy of Music in Łódź, in the class of Solo Singing of Professor Ziemowit Wojtczak. While still a student, he performed as a soloist in productions of the Music Theatre in Łódź, appearing in musicals – Bernstein’s Wonderful Town (Chick Clark) and Bock’s Fiddler on the Roof (Fyedka) – and the music projects Znasz-li ten kraj to the music of Stanisław Moniuszko and Powróćmy jak za dawnych lat.
He honed his vocal skills in master classes in Poland and abroad, among others with Anita Garanča, Olga Pasiecznik, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Udo Reinemann, Kaludi Kaludov, Maciej Pikulski, Andrzej Dobber, and Doris Yarick-Cross and Richard Cross. A former member of the Warsaw Opera’s Opera Academy.
In 2012, Stachura received a scholarship to participate in the prestigious workshops at the Académie de Villecroze and Académie des Heures Romantiques in France. In March 2015, he performed in the Opera Gala in Radom, part of the 19th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. In the same year, he participated in the world premiere of Jan Krutul’s Litany to St John Paul II, together with the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mateusz Stachura goes well beyond the classical repertoire. For five years he has developed his talent in his Swing & Roll band, performing pieces by Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Eugeniusz Bodo, and Mieczysław Fogg. Since 2012, he has worked at the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was Marek in the musical Korczak, Monostatos in The Magic Flute and Morales in Carmen.