Polish tenor Tadeusz Szlenkier’s recent and upcoming engagements include his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Das Tier (Antikrist), Der Kaiser (Die Frau ohne Schatten), and Don Alvaro (La Forza del Destino) at the Polish National Opera. He also appears as Ctirad (Šárka) at the Prague National Theatre and as Mario Cavaradossi (Tosca) at the Ópera Nacional de Chile and the Kraków Opera.
Other highlights include Turiddu (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Canio Pagliacci with the Opéra de Toulon and the Opéra de Saint-Étienne, and the title roles in Parsifal and Lohengrin at the Staatstheater Nürnberg. He also performs Silvanus Schuller in Penderecki’s Die schwarze Maske with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
His extensive repertoire includes Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), the Prince (Rusalka), Manrico (Il Trovatore), the Italian Singer (Der Rosenkavalier), Don José (Carmen), the title role Don Carlo, Gustavo (Un ballo in Maschera), Emperor (Die Frau ohne Schatten,) Leicester (Maria Stuarda), Jontek (Halka,) Shepherd (Szymanowski’s King Roger), Stefan The Haunted Manor, Le Chevalier des Grieux (Manon), Ismaele (Nabucco), Sinodal (The Demon), and the Male Chorus (The Rape of Lucretia).
He has collaborated with esteemed conductors such as Joana Mallwitz, Patrick Fournillier, Björn Huestege, Roberto Rizzi-Brignoli, Guido Johannes Rumstadt, Edward Cumming, Leon Botstein, Giuseppe Grazioli, Jeremy Silver, Antoni Wit, Uwe Theimer, and Eraldo Salmieri.