Bass
The swift progress of the career of the young Polish bass Daniel Borowski attests to the unusual maturity of his voice and his special gifts as a musician and actor. While still in his twenties he came to the attention of important conductors, opera companies and orchestras including Staatsoper Berlin where he appeared as the Commendatore in Don Giovanni with Daniel Barenboim; as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte, as Banquo in Macbeth conducted by Michael Gielen and as Oroveso in Norma. At Opéra du Rhin Strasbourg and at Schwetzingen Festival he appeared as The Commendatore in Don Giovanni which was telecast live worldwide on the ARTE Television Network. He was Colline in a new production of La Bohème at Frankfurt Opera, The Water Sprite in Rusalka in the Netherlands and Massimiliano in a concert performance of a Verdi rarity I Masnadieri in London under Sir Edward Downes. His first assignment at Glyndebourne Festival was covering Fiesco and singing Pietro in Simon Boccanegra under the baton of Mark Elder. He was the recipient of that season's John Christie Award.
Daniel Borowski was selected as Debut Artist of the Year by The New York City Opera for his first season performances of Banquo in Macbeth, Colline in La Bohème and Commendatore in Don Giovanni and was reengaged to sing Raimondo in a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor in the fall of 2003. He sang his first performances of Daland in Der fliegende Holländer with Spoleto Festival USA and his first performances of Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Boston Lyric Opera. With Grand Théâtre de Genève, at Berlin Staatsoper unter der Linden and at Teatro Carlo Felice Genoa he portrayed Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and with the Minnesota, Nantes and Angers Opera Companies he appeared as Sarastro. In Basel he sang a Gala Concert with Edita Gruberova and Neil Shicoff.
To his ever-expanding repertoire Mr. Borowski added Ermito Piero in a virtually unknown Donizetti work, Pia de Tolomei in Venice's rebuilt La Fenice; First Nazarene for his Teatro alla Scala debut in the acclaimed Luc Bondy production of Salome under the baton of Daniel Harding and Trulove in The Rake's Progress at Santa Cecilia in Rome. He portrayed Oroveso in Norma at Opéra de Montréal and Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte at San Diego Opera and in his debuts with the Opera Companies of Madrid, Lyon and Detroit. He sang the Mozart Requiem on tour in nine German cities as well as in London and Prague with Sir Neville Marriner and the Orchestra of St. Martin's in the Fields. He appeared on nationwide television in Italy with RAI in a performance of Rossini's Stabat Mater and in London at the Barbican Center with Sir Colin Davis and The London Symphony he was Don Fernando in Fidelio, a performance released on CD by LSO Live. The London «Mail on Sunday» called it «The finest performance of Fidelio I have ever heard».
Mr. Borowski made his debut at Spoleto, Italy's Festival of Two Worlds singing Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death and Nikitich in the Boris Godunov Prologue with
James Conlon; at La Fenice singing Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgisnacht with Sir Neville Marriner and at San Carlo in Naples singing Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ with Jeffrey Tate. He sang Don Fernando in Fidelio with Michael Tilson-Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, Ferrando in Il Trovatore at Houston Grand Opera, Timur in Turandot in Montpellier and Fiesco in Simon Boccanegra at Sante Fe Opera. His first appearance at The Proms in London was as the Bonze in Le Rossignol.
He recently sang in Turin in a concert conducted by Neville Marriner and in a Verdi Gala Concert in Poland. Among his future engagements the role Gualtiero Valton in I Puritani at Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, 9th Symphony by G. Mahler in St Petersburg, Erzbischof in Krol Roger by K. Szymanowski at Liceu Theatre in Barcelona.