Mariusz Treliński - director

Stage director and artistic director of the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Mariusz Treliński, began his career in cinema and theatre before moving to the world of opera. He has revived the classical genre and bestowed on it the dynamism of our times. His highly acclaimed Madame Butterfly premiered at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw in 1999 was transferred two years later by Plácido Domingo to the Washington National Opera. Since then, Mr. Treliński worked regularly with the world’s leading theatres and conductors, such as Daniel Barenboim, Kent Nagano, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev and Carlo Rizzi.

Subsequent opera productions include: Otello (PNO), Don Giovanni (Los Angeles), The Queen of Spades (Berlin, Tel Aviv), Andrea Chénier and La bohème (Washington), King Roger (St. Petersburg, Edinburgh), Boris Godunov (Vilnius), Orfeo ed Euridice (Bratislava), two one-act operas, Aleko and Iolanta with Anna Netrebko in the title role (St. Petersburg, Baden-Baden) and Eugene Onegin (Valencia, Bologna). His version of La Traviata (PNO 2010, Savonlinna 2013) was set in the spirit of Bob Fosse’s film All That Jazz. Later productions include Turandot, Der fliegende Holländer, Manon Lescaut, a co-production with the La Monnaie and Cardiff theatre. The year 2013 marked a co-production with the Metropolitan Opera in New York – the premiere of an opera thriller invoking the poetics of horror films, in which he successfully combined two fairy tales: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle. His Henze's Boulevard Solitude (2014) at the Welsh National Opera, was hailed by “The Times” as “better than perfect” and the latest production, Strauss’ Salome (2014), coproduced with the National Theatre in Prague, is considered as “profound and unsettling, a deliberate and highly effective”. Mr. Treliński continues to increase his profile as one of the leading contemporary opera director and brings his sense of style to the Metropolitan Opera`s double bill of Iolanta and Bluebeard`s Castle premiered on January 29th, 2015 and considered by critics as a very successful and compelling production.

Mariusz Treliński has opened up opera to the present times: he has revived the classical genre by blending it with current aesthetic trends, lending it some of the dynamism and temperature of our times.

Mr. Treliński future plans include: Tristan und Isolde at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, at New National Theatre in Tokyo and at Metropolitan Opera in New York; Die Tote Stadt and Ariadne auf Naxos at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw, where he will also direct Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka, opera that will be revived at Theater an der Wien; Tannhäuser at the Festival in Bayreuth and revivals of Die Tote Stadt at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels.

Mikolaj Zalasinski - Robert

Especially acclaimed in the roles of Rigoletto, Macbeth, Nabucco, Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Mikolaj Zalasinski is part of the ensemble of the Staatstheater in Nuremberg and is a regular guest at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw.

He recently performed: Tosca and Evgenij Oneginin in Wuppertal and Gdańsk where he returned singing The Haunted Manor; Rigoletto in Bratislava; Il Trovatore in Lodz and in Vilnius; Cherevichki in Cagliari; King Roger, La Traviata and Un Ballo in Maschera in Nuremberg; Rigoletto at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw.

His repertoire also includes: Andrea Chénier, Il Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida, La Traviata, Tosca, La Gioconda, Salome (Jochanaan).

He performed in such theaters as at La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio in Turin, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, as well as in opera houses in Chicago, Wiesbaden, Berlin, Nuremberg, Tokyo and Beijing. He was awarded the Jan Kiepura prize for best singer of the year 2009. His discography includes Parsifal (Klingsor) for Dynamic.

Future plans include: Don Giovanni, Rigoletto and Attila in Nuremberg; Il Trovatore at the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari.