Piotr Prochera
baritone
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Biography
Polish baritone Piotr Prochera was a member of Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen from 2008 until 2023, after three seasons at Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar. His varied repertoire includes Rossini’s and Mozart’s Figaro, Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Taddeo L’Italiana in Algeri, Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Marcello La Bohème, Zar Peter I. Zar und Zimmermann, Pantalone Love for three Oranges, the title role of Eugene Onegin, TomskyThe Queen of Spades, Donner Das Rheingold, Melot Tristan un Isolde, Peter Hänsel und Gretel, Barnaba La Gioconda, Zurga Les Pecheurs de perles, Fra Melitone La Forza del Destino, Revirnik The cunning little Vixen.
Piotr Prochera has portrayed numerous important roles in 20th and 21st century operas, such as the title role of Weinberger's Schwanda, der Dudelsackpfeifer, Eduard Neues vom Tage, Marquis de la Force Dialogues des Carmélites, Boris Koretsky in Shostakovich’s Moscow, Cheryomushki, Mordred in Albeniz’s Merlin, Emilio in Rota’s Il Cappello di Paglia di Firenze, Tadeusz in Weinberg’s Passagierin, Malaspina in Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici, Benito Repollo in Henze’s Das Wundertheater, Gabey and Maximilian in Bernstein’s On the town and Candide, Mr.Gedge Albert Herring, Starveling A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Mr Redburn Billy Budd, Viktor Frankenstein in Jan Dvorak's Frankenstein, leading roles in the world premieres of Žebeljan’s Simon der Erwählte and Due teste e una ragazza, performed at the festival “Settimana Musicale Senese” in Siena. He has appeared at the Semperoper Dresden as Papageno in 2012/2013 and at the Müpa Budapest as Hermann Ortel Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, under the baton of Adam Fischer in 2016. With Malmö Opera he performed Barnaba La Gioconda in 2017.
Prior to graduating as a singer from the Poznan Academy of Music Piotr Prochera studied violin. He attended masterclasses by Ernst Haefliger, Peter Schreier, Cheryl Studer and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He became prizewinner at the Warsaw Lied competition in 2005. In Gelsenkirchen he received the awards "Der beste Nachwuchssänger 2010", "Theaterpreis 2010" and "Publikumspreis 2012". As a passionate concert singer he has sung song cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Mussorgsky as well as solo parts in Bach's oratorios, Händel's Messiah, Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, Mendelssohn's Paulus and Elias and Puccini's Messa di Gloria.