Polish Bass, Paweł Horodyski is currently a member of the Opera Studio at the Bayerische Staatsoper. His roles in Munich this 2024/25 season include Un berger Pelléas et Mélisande, Ein Gefängniswärter Tosca, Erscheinung 1 Macbeth, Un sergente Manon Lescaut and Mönch in Hosokawa's Matsukaze.

Outside of Munich, Pawel will make returns to Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa to sing Zbigniew The Haunted Manor and Kraków Opera as Figaro and make debuts at at Tiroler Festspiele to sing Lord Gualtiero Valton I Puritani under the baton of Lorenzo Passerini and Festival d'Aix-en-Provence for his role debut as Masetto Don Giovanni under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle. On the concert stage, Pawel will sing Mozart’s Mass in C with NFM Wrocław Philharmonic.

Future seasons will see Pawel make his debut at Teatro di San Carlo and return to Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa and Wroclaw Opera.

His roles at Bayerische Staatsoper last season included Lo zio Yakusidé Madama Butterfly and First Apparition Macbeth, Un berger Pelléas et Mélisande, Rascal in Carl Orff’s The Moon, Un carceriere Tosca, various roles in Shostakovich’s Die Nase and Brabantische Edle Lohengrin.

In Summer 2023, Paweł took part in the Young Singers Project at Salzburger Festspiele, where he sung L’Arbe and Le Fauteuil in a new production of Ravel’s Das Kind und die Zauberdinge. In 2022, Paweł made debut at Teatr Wielki in Warsaw as Zbigniew in Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera The Haunted Manor .

On the concert platform, recent appearances include Bach’s Mass in B minor with Bayerische Staatsorchester under the baton of Vladimir Jurowski at Munich Cathedral, 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 at Polish Royal Opera.

Born in Poland, Paweł studied singing at Fryderyk Chopin State Music School in Olsztyn and then continued his vocal training at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, studying under the guidance of Prof. Bogdan Makal. From 2019, Paweł was a member of the Academy of the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw and later, in 2022 became a member of the Youth Opera of Opera Wrocław, where his roles included the title role in Le nozze di Figaro, Guglielmo Così fan tutte and Zuniga Carmen.