Krystian Adam
Tenor

Particularly appreciated and in demand for the 17th and 18th century repertoire, Polish tenor Krystian Adam regularly collaborates with illustrious conductors such as: Rinaldo Alessandrini, Giovanni Antonini, Fabio Biondi, Ivor Bolton, Fabio Bonizzoni, Riccardo Chailly, Teodor Currentzis, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Vaclav Luks, Stefano Montanari, Dabiel Oren, Raphael Pichon, Andreas Spering, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Jeffrey Tate.

He starred in the Monteverdi 450 project as Orfeo and Telemaco (Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria) and in Vespro della Beata Vergine, a world tour conducted by Gardiner in the world's most prestigious halls. Other engagements include: Le nozze di Figaro in London (Covent Garden), Amsterdam, Lucerne; Idomeneo in Venice and at the Covent Garden directed by Robert Carsen; Bach's Magnificat in Berlin with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester and at the Festival d'Auvers-sur-Oise; La Fanciulla del West (Joe) and Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria at La Scala in Milan; Messiah at the Handel Festspiele in Halle, and on tour, in Prague and Dresden with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks and with Spinosi on tour in Europe; Adriana Lecouvreur (Abate di Chazeuil) in London directed by David Mc Vicar; Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni (Fornasetti Project) in Milan and Tel Aviv; Mosè in Egitto conducted by Stefano Montanari in Naples; San Giovanni Battista by Stradella at the Salzburg Festival; Szymanowski’s King Roger and Haydn’s Paukenmesse at the Wratislavia Cantans International Festival; La Resurrezione with La Risonanza and Fabio Bonizzoni; Rodelinda in Lyon conducted by Stefano Montanari; Saul (Jonathan) in Brno.

Recent engagements include: Bach’s Matthäus-Passion at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées conducted by Vaclav Luks and on tour in Europe; L'Ercole amante at the Opéra Comique and Versailles; Idomeneo in Tel Aviv, Madrid and Athens; La Pietra del Paragone and II Re Pastore at the Théâtre du Châtelet; L’Incoronazione di Poppea in Barcelona and Bilbao; Israel in Egypt with Collegium 1704 on tour; Messiah at the Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Ravenna and Paris; Oedipus Rex with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko; Acis and Galatea in Krakow; Scarlatti’s Griselda at the Martina Franca Festival with George Petrou; Der Schauspieldirektor in Warsaw; Haydn’s Orfeo in Düsseldorf; Beethoven’s Mass in C major in Wroclaw; L'isola disabitata in Ravenna; Vespro della Beata Vergine in Milan and Perugia; Alcina in Caen and Versailles with Vaclav Luks; Apollo et Hyacinthus and Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno  at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice;  Les Dialogues des Carmélites with Michele Mariotti for the season’s opening of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; Le Nozze di Figaro in London (Covent Garden); Mozart’s Mass in C minor with Jean-Christophe Spinosi in Lyon and Paris; Haydn’s Orfeo in Graz; Handel’s Lotario at the Handel Festival in Halle; Haydn’s Orlando paladino (Pasquale) with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini in Madrid and Barcelona; Messiah at the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in Rome and with Collegium 1704 on tour and Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (title role ) in Zurich under Dantone.

Among his future engagements, it is worth mentioning: Mozart's Great Mass in C minor at the Salzburg Festival with Collegium 1704 and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino; Handel's Israel in Egypt at the Wratislawia Cantans Festival in Wroclaw with Collegium 1704; Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno again in Wroclaw with Il Giardino Armonico and Mozart's Idomeneo in Mainz.

July 2024