Baritone (Poland)

HGO Appearances:

Title role in The Flying Dutchman. Previously: Scarpia in Tosca (2015).

About the Artist:

Andrzej Dobber made his HGO debut as Scarpia in Tosca (2015). In the 2018–19 season, he will perform the title role in Nabucco at the Semperoper Dresden and will sing Scarpia both in Dresden and at the Berlin State Opera. He is seen regularly with the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Opéra national de Paris (Bastille), the Teatro Comunale in Florence, Dutch National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Semperoper Dresden, Berlin State Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Vienna State Opera, the Hamburg State Opera, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, and the Savonlinna Opera Festival and the Glyndebourne Festival. In November 2010, Dobber made his role debut as Jochanaan in Salome at the Hamburg State Opera, under the baton of Simone Young. Since 2007, he has been closely associated with the Hamburg Opera, singing the title roles in Simon Boccanegra, Rigoletto, Macbeth, Falstaff, and Prince Igor, as well as Amonasro in Aida, Amfortas in Parsifal, Tomski in The Queen of Spades, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Francesco Foscari in I due Foscari, and Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West, to name a few. In 2015, Dobber was appointed Kammersänger by the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg, where he performed the role of Barak in Die Frau ohne Schatten in 2017. Last February, he gave his role debut as the Dutchman at the Semperoper Dresden; more performances followed in July. He recently appeared as Rigoletto at the Teatr Wielki in Lodz.