Pavol Breslik - Tenor
Biography
The overnight success of the tenor Pavol Breslik began in 2005, when he was chosen the “Most Promising Singer of the Year” in a critics’ survey in the magazine “Opernwelt”. Born in 1979 in Slovakia, he completed his studies at the Conservatory in Bratislava. In 2000 he won the first prize at the Antonín-Dvořák Competition in the Czech Republic. In 2002/03, he continued his education at the Opera Studio CNIPAL in Marseilles, and completed master classes with Yvonne Minton, Mady Mesplé, Mirella Freni and William Matteuzzi
From 2003 to 2006, Pavol Breslik was a member of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, where among other parts he was heard as Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino (Zauberflöte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Nemorino (Elisir d’amore), Kudrjasch (Katja Kabanowa) and God’s Fool (Boris Godunov). During this time, he gave guest performances with his Mozart parts at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, at Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, at the Glyndebourne Festival, at the Wiener Festwochen and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. At the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet, he performed Jaquino in Fidelio.
As a free-lance performer since 2006, he has expanded his Mozart repertoire with Belmonte (Entführung aus dem Serail) and Idamante (Idomeneo). As Don Ottavio he performed at the Salzburg Festival and at the Metropolitan Opera New York, as Alfred (Die Fledermaus) at the Geneva Grand Théâtre, as Tamino in London’s Covent Garden, as the Evangelist in the Johannes Passion in Théâtre du Châtelet, as Idamante and Lenski (Eugen Onegin) at the Bavarian State Opera Munich. There he sang with Edita Gruberova, giving his début performance as Gennaro in Christof Loy’s successful new production of Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia.
Future performances will take the young tenor again to the New Yorker Met, the Berlin, Munich and Viennese State Operas, to the Berlin Philharmonic (“Salome” under Simon Rattle) as well as to the Grand Teatro Liceu in Barcelona. The following new parts are planned: Narraboth (Salome) at the Salzburg Festival, Silvio (Arbore di Diana by Martín y Soler)) in Madrid, as well as the first Verdi parts as Alfredo in Munich, Macduff (Macbeth) at the Deutschen Oper Berlin and Cassio (Otello) in Munich.
Pavol Breslik is also a welcome guest on the concert stage. At the BBC Proms in London, he performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra under Kurt Masur in Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass, with the Concert d’Astrée under Emmanuelle Haïm in London and in Paris in Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo (on Virgin Classics CD), at the Edinburgh Festival in Beethoven’s C Major Mass and in Christus am Ölberg. Under Kurt Masur he also performed in the premiere of Siegfried Matthus’ Te Deum, and with the Orchestre National de France, in Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and the Ninth Symphony. Further, he performed the Missa Solemnis with the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis, La Messe Solennelle and Roméo et Juliette by Berlioz with the Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio under Riccardo Muti. The original version of Dvořák’s Stabat Mater was recorded on CD by Naïve with the Ensemble Accentus.
Future concert performances are Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Chailly and Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Mahler with the Concertgebouw Amsterdam under Philippe Herreweghe. A recital is planned with the Frankfurt Opera.
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