Bartosz Urbanowicz

Biography

Bartosz Urbanowicz has been a leading soloist at Nationaltheater Mannheim since the 2013/2014 season. A versatile artist, his repertoire encompasses a wide range of bass and bass-baritone roles, such as Don Magnifico La Cenerentola, Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia, the title role of Don Pasquale, Raimondo Lucia di Lammermoor, Dulcamara L’Elisir d'amore, Oroveso Norma, Alfonso Cosi fan tutte, Leporello Don Giovanni, Seneca L’incoronazione di Poppea, Ferrando Il Trovatore, Monterone Rigoletto, Lodovico Otello, Ramfis Aida, Un Frate Don Carlo, Tom Un ballo in maschera, Colline La Bohème, Biterolf Tannhäuser, Ein Nachtwächter Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, King René Iolanta, Lanceotto Malatesta Francesca da Rimini, Tschelio L'amour des trois oranges, Dr. Vigelius Der ferne Klang and Hidulfus Genoveva.

Last season he made his role debuts in Mannheim as Kaspar Der Freischütz, Gremin Eugene Onegin and to great acclaim Arthur in Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse. He has appeared as Don Pasquale and as Bartolo Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In 2021 he sang Ramfis Aida in the open-air production at Kultursommer Bad Schwalbach. In 2016 he made his debut at the Bregenz Festival as Marcello in Franco Faccio’s Amleto, recorded by Naxos.

At the age of 23 he made his stage debut as Varlaam/ Boris Godunov in Wroclaw. He performs regularly in his native Poland, in roles such as Leporello/ Don Giovanni, Sparafucile/ Rigoletto, the bass solo in Verdi’s Requiem, Zbigniew in Moniuszko’s Straszny dwor, Gawrius in D. Szostkowski’s Gracze and the double role of Louis Capet and Condorcet in R. Waters’ opera Ça Ira, televised by National Television. With the production of G. G. Gorczycki's opera Completorium he went on tour to Italy and participated in the recording of the piece. He began his musical education at the Music School of Rzeszów where he studied with the famous voice teacher Anna Budzinska, and graduated with highest honors in 2005 from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice.