Krystian Adam graduated with honors in Voice and
Music Education in Wroclaw. He then continued his studies at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory
in Milan. He
made his debut as Conte d'Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, followed
by La Clemenza di Tito (title role) and Il Matrimonio Segreto
(Paolino).
Mr.
Adam regularly collaborates with prestigious conductors and ensembles,
including: Claudio Abbado/ Orchestra Mozart; Ian Adamus/ Capella Cracoviensis; Giovanni
Antonini/ Il Giardino Armonico; Fabio Bonizzoni/ La Risonanza; Theodor
Currentzis/ Musica Aeterna; Alan Curtis/ Il Complesso Barocco; Ottavio Dantone/
Accademia Bizantina; L'arte del mondo/ Werner Ehrhardt; Diego Fasolis/ I
Barocchisti; Federico Guglielmo/ L'Arte dell'Arco; Vaclav Luks/ Collegium 1704;
Federico Maria Sardelli/ Modo Antiquo.
Highlights
of his successful career are: Handel's Rodelinda (Grimoaldo) with the Capella
Cracoviensis; the world première of Fabio Vacchi's Teneke for his stage
debut in 2007 at the Teatro alla Scala, conducted by Roberto Abbado; Handel's Israel
in Egypt with Diego Fasolis; Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del
Disinganno (Tempo) with Fabio Bonizzoni; the modern première of Piccinni's Il
Finto Turco with Federico Guglielmo; Ariodante (Lurcanio) in Beaune
and in Santiago de Compostela with Federico Maria Sardelli; the modern première
of Salieri's Il Mondo alla Rovescia at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona;
Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, conducted
by Attilio Cremonesi; Pergolesi's Dixit Dominus under Claudio Abbado
with Orchestra Mozart (recorded for Deutsche Grammophon); Gluck's Le Cinesi
at the Musikfestspiele in Potsdam and at the Winterthur Theatre with Werner
Erhardt and L'Arte del Mondo; Ottone in Villa at the Innsbruck Festival
with Giovanni Antonini; M. Haydn's Requiem MH559 in Leverkusen;
Alessandro Scarlatti's La Giuditta in Rotterdam and Il Novello
Giasone by Cavalli/ Stradella at the Festival della Valle d'Itria in
Martina Franca.
Among Mr. Adam's other engagements it is worth
mentioning: L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Arnalta) at the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino with Alan Curtis; Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria at the Teatro
alla Scala under Rinaldo Alessandrini, Robert Wilson directing; Die Entführung
aus dem Serail (Pedrillo) at the Opera Company in Philadelphia under
Corrado Rovaris and in several Italian houses; Mozart's Great Mass in C
minor with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra under Manfred Honeck; Anfossi's La
Finta Giardiniera (concert and recording for Sony) and Bach's Christmas
Oratorio in Leverkusen with L'arte del Mondo; Handel's Solomon in
Krakow with Ian Adamus; Handel's Rinaldo (Goffredo) with Ottavio Dantone
in Italy; Le Nozze di Figaro in Cagliari and Perm (followed by a new
studio recording for Sony under Theodor Currentzis); a revival of Gluck's Le
Cinesi in Leverkusen and on tour in China; Scarlatti's Cain, ovvero il
primo omicidio in Herne with Bonizzoni; Myslivecek's L'Olimpiade at
the National Theatre in Prague with Vaclav Luks and Collegium 1704 on tour (Dijon,
Luxembourg, Vienna TAW); Mozart’s Requiem (Levin ed.) in Altenberg and
Dortmund; Haydn’s La Vera Costanza with Andreas Spering at the Haydn
Festival Augustusburg (recorded by WDR); Bach’s Cantata BWV 131 in
Wroclaw (Wratislavia Cantans) under Giovanni Antonini.
Mr. Adam in the past seasons performed: Rossini’s La
pietra del paragone (Giocondo) and Il Re Pastore at the Théâtre du
Châtelet in Paris under Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Monteverdi’s Vespro della
Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir and John Eliot Gardiner in
Cambridge, Versailles and Barcelona; Haydn’s Philemon und Baucis in
Monte Carlo with Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi; Bach’s Matthäus-Passion
with the Akademie für Alte Musik in Berlin and Munich; Zelenka’s Te Deum at
the Wratislavia Cantans Festival and on tour with Vaclav Luks; Il Trionfo
del Tempo e del Disinganno in Versailles with La Risonanza; L’occasione
fa il ladro at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under Enrique Mazzola; Respighi’s
Lauda per la natività del Signore with the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester
in Berlin; Bach’s B-minor Mass at the Maggio Musicale in Florence under
Stefano Montanari; Handel’s Giove in Argo at the Handel Festival in
Halle with L’arte del mondo and Werner Ehrhardt; Mozart’s Idomeneo at
the Covent Garden under Mark Minkowski and in Venice under the baton of Jeffrey
Tate.
Under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Krystian
Adam starred in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (title role) and Vespers on
US tour and in London at the BBC proms and in Versailles with the Monteverdi
Choir and the English Baroque Soloists and starred in Monteverdi’s Combattimento
di Tancredi e Clorinda at the Wigmore Hall in London and in Versailles.
Most recently Mr. Adam has starred in Monteverdi’s Trilogy world-wide tour in L’Orfeo(title
role) and Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria (Telemaco) under the baton
of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
Past season engagements include: Bach’s Cantata BWV 201 at the Leipzig
Bachfest under Vaclav Luks; Mozart’s Great Mass in C minor in
Bordeaux and Toulouse with Ensemble Pygmalion and Rapahël Pichon; Haydn’s La canterina (don Pelagio)
with Cappella Augustina at Brühl Castle; Le Nozze di Figaro at the
Covent Garden in London under Ivor Bolton; Die Zauberfloete at the Opéra
Royal de Wallonie in Liège under the baton of Paolo Arrivabeni; Bach’s Magnificat
in Berlin with the Deutsche Symphonie- Orchester and Rinaldo Alessandrini;
Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (Joe) at La Scala in Milan under the
baton of Chailly; Handel’s Messiah with Collegium 1704 in Prague and
with La Risonanza at the Händel Festspiele in Halle, in Saint Michel and in
Milan.
Most recently, worth mentioning: the debut of Don
Ottavio in Don Giovanni at the Hudební festival in Znojmo and
then at the Teatro dell’Arte in Milan (Triennale) – both productions performed
on period- instruments; Le Nozze di Figaro (Basilio) at the Dutch
National Opera in Amsterdam, Ivor Bolton conducting; Adriana Lecouvreur (Abate
di Chazeuil) at the Covent Garden in London, production by David Mc Vicar,
Daniel Oren conducting; Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor in
Dusseldorf with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker under the baton of Maestro Sir
Neville Marriner. He recorded Mozart’s Il Sogno di Scipione (Publio) in
London with the Classical Opera Company and Ian Page; L'Incoronazione di Poppea with Spinosi in Barcelona and Bilbao; Messiah in Pistoia; Don Giovanni in Tel Aviv; Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in Leverkusen and Dusseldorf with L'Arte del Mondo; Aronne in Mosè in Egitto in Naples under Stefano Montanari; Salieri's La Fiera di Venezia in Schwetzingen and Leverkusen with L'Arte del Mondo; Grimoaldo in Handel’s Rodelinda
in Lyon under Stefano Montanari; Saul in Brno and Prague; Arbace in Idomeneo at the Teatro
Real in Madrid, Robert Carsen directing ; Handel's Messiah in
Prague and Dresden with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks; San Giovanni
Battista at the Salzburg Festival; King Roger and Paukenmesse at the
Wratislavia Cantans International Festival; La Resurrezione with La Risonanza and Fabio Bonizzoni in Milan and on tour; Israel in Egypt with Collegium 1704 and Vaclav Luks on tour in Europe.
Plans include Bach’s Matthäus Passion at the
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under Vaclav Luks; Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail in Glyndebourne; Messiah at the Festival Monteverdi in Cremona; Saul (Jonathan) in Znojmo and Helesov; Benvenuto Cellini with Sir J.E. Gardiner and Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra on tour in Europe; Le Nozze di Figaro in Vienna and Lucerne and in London at the Royal Opera Hose Covent Garden in London; Haydn's Orfeo in Eisenstadt; L'Ercole Amante in Paris and in Versailles; Idomeneo (title role) in Tal Aviv; Corselli's Achille in Sciro at the Teatro Real in Madrid.
March 2019