Paweł Horodyski

Polish bass Paweł Horodyski is currently a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper, having joined the company following his graduation from its Opera Studio. He was winner of the Lied Prize and Third Prize at the 2025 Queen Sonja Singing Competition.

In the 2026/27 season, Horodyski makes several significant house and role debuts, including his Royal Opera House debut as Angelotti in Tosca. He makes his US debut with the New York Philharmonic in Handel’s Messiah, debuts the title role in The Marriage of Figaro with the Gorzów Philharmonic Orchestra, and appears with the Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 under Alexandre Bloch. He returns to the Tiroler Festspiele Erl for his role debut as Lord Rochefort in Anna Bolena and to Wrocław Opera for The Haunted Manor.

As a member of the ensemble at the Bayerische Staatsoper, this season his engagements include Masetto (Don Giovanni), Male Courtier One in Brett Dean's Of One Blood, Truffaldin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Tom (Un ballo in maschera), Ein Sergeant (Manon Lescaut), Narumov (Pique Dame), Zuniga (Carmen) and Yakusidé (Madama Butterfly).

Recent highlights include appearances at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence as Masetto in Don Giovanni, under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle; as Lord Gualtiero Valton in I Puritani at the Tiroler Festspiele Erl; and as Quinault in Adriana Lecouvreur at Teatro di San Carlo. He also made his role debut as Sarastro in Die Zauberflöte with Teatr Wielki – Opera Narodowa.

On the concert platform, Horodyski has appeared at the AIDS Gala with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker under Roberto Kalb and at the 2026 New Year's Day Concert with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Highlights includes Bach's Mass in B minor with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester under Vladimir Jurowski, Haydn's Stabat Mater with the Bayerische Staatsoper, Mozart's Mass in C minor with the Wrocław Philharmonic under Andrzej Kosendiak, Mozart's Requiem and Bach's Weihnachtsoratorium with Wrocław Chamber Opera, Bach's St John Passion and Mozart's Requiem with the Silesian Philharmonic, and Bach's Lutheran Masses with the Polish Royal Opera.

Born in Poland, Horodyski studied at the Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Olsztyn before continuing his training at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław with Prof. Bogdan Makal. He was a member of the Academy of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera from 2019, before joining the Youth Opera of Wrocław Opera in 2022, where his roles included the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) and Zuniga (Carmen). In 2023, he joined the Salzburg Festival's Young Singers Project, performing L'Arbre and Le Fauteuil in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges.