COMPOSER | OPERA | ROLE |
J. Antunes | Olga | 2 Cantadores
Rodolfo Ghioldi |
G. Bizet | Carmen | Morales
Dancairo |
B. Britten | The Rape of Lucretia | Tarquinius* |
H. Berlioz | La Damnation de Faust | Méphistophélès |
G. Donizetti | L’elisir d’amore | Belcore* |
E. W. Korngold | Das Wunder der Heliane | 5. Richter |
W. A. Mozart | Cosí fan tutte | Guglielmo* |
W. A. Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Papageno |
W. A. Mozart | Don Giovanni | Don Giovanni |
W. A. Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Figaro |
C. Orff | Der Mond | 2. Bursche |
G. Puccini | La bohème | Schaunard* |
G. Puccini | Madame Butterfly | L’Imperial commissario |
G. Rossini | Il Barbiere di Siviglia | Fiorello |
O. Respighi | La bella dormente nel bosco | Il Re
L’Ambasciatore Il Boscaiolo |
J. Stefani | Cud, albo Krakowiaki i Górale | Bardos* |
J. Strauss | Die Fledermaus | Falke |
I. Stravinsky | Oedipus rex | Messenger |
G. Verdi | Un ballo in maschera | Silvano |
R. Wagner | Das Rheingold | Donner |
*studied |
CONCERT | |
J. S. Bach | Ich habe genug |
G. Fauré | Requiem |
G. Mahler | Rückert-Lieder
Kindertotenlieder |
M. Ravel | Don Quichotte à Dulcinée |
M. Weinberg | Biblia Cygańska, op. 57
Pamiątka, op. 132 |
In the 2021/2022 season, Polish baritone Jan Żądło appeared as Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Warsaw Chamber Opera, Dancairo (Carmen) at the Polish National Opera, Rodolfo Ghioldi / Cantadores in Olga by Jorge Antunes and Il Commissario imperiale (Madama Butterfly) at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk. He made his operatic debut in the title role of Don Giovanni at the Silesian Opera in Bytom.
Most recently, he won the second prize in the International Otto Edelmann Singing Competition in Vienna and the second prize in the Giuseppe Di Stefano International Opera Competition in Trapani. In 2019, he got a prize for the best performance of a song by Mieczysław Weinberg during International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition.
Previous seasons included role debuts as Mefistofeles (La Damnation de Faust) at the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca, Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) at Grand Theatre in Poznan, Il Re / Un Boscaiolo / L'Ambasciatore (La bella dormente nel bosco) at Opéra de Lyon, Donner (Das Rheingold) with the Polish Radio Orchestra, Messenger (Oedipus rex) with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and 5. Richter (Das Wunder der Heliane) at Konzerthaus Freiburg (recording for Naxos).
Jan Żądło also appeared as Bardos in Jan Stefani's opera The Miracle or Cracovians and Highlanders, Morales (Carmen), Halabardnik (Landknecht) in Władysław Żeleński's Goplana, Il Commissario imperiale (Madama Butterfly) at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw.
He performed on concert stages with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, Polish Radio Orchestra, Sinfonia Iuventus, Silesian Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Świętokrzyska Philharmonic, Zabrze Philharmonic and the orchestra of the Polish National Opera.
Jan was honored to work and perform with Fabrice Bollon, James Bonas, Gabriel Chmura, José Maria Florencio, Philippe Forget, Sascha Goetzel, Barbora Horáková Joly, Michał Klauza, Alexander Liebreich and Tadeusz Kozłowski among others.
Mr. Żądło is a passionate Lieder singer, with appearances at the Polish National Theatre, Royal Castle in Warsaw, Academy of Music in Katowice and Museum of Karol Szymanowski in Zakopane. He also performed songs of Mieczysław Weinberg at Oper Frankfurt.
The baritone completed his MA studies at The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice. He was a member of the Opera Academy at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and Le Lyon Opéra studio. He studied his voice technique mostly with Eytan Pessen and Jacek Laszczkowski.