The Polish baritone Mikołaj Trąbka is currently an ensemble member of the Frankfurt Opera, where he has appeared in roles such as Eugene Onegin, Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), Count Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Tadeusz (The Passenger), Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen), King (Die Kluge) and Dandini (La Cenerentola). His recent guest engagements have included Marcello (La bohème) at the Opéra National de Montpellier, Eugene Onegin at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and Harlequin (Ariadne auf Naxos) in Montpellier and at the Polish National Opera, where he has also appeared as Papageno (Die Zauberflöte).
Previous roles at the Frankfurt Opera have included Robert (Iolanta), Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Harlequin, Moralès and Le Dancaïre (Carmen), Second Apprentice (Wozzeck), Donald (Billy Budd), Marullo (Rigoletto), Filippo in Rossini’s La gazzetta and Andrey in Eötvös’s Three Sisters. During the Covid lockdowns he took part in Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt, a production directed by Christof Loy and broadcast by Arte, featuring songs by Tchaikovsky.
Mikołaj Trąbka’s guest engagements have also included Ser Amantio di Nicolao (Gianni Schicchi) at the 2022 Salzburg Festival, Harlequin at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Belcore (L’elisir d’amore) at the Tyrolean Festival Erl, Figaro (Il barbiere di Siviglia) and Pappacoda (Eine Nacht in Venedig) at the Teatr Wielki in Łódź, Malatesta at the Karlsruhe State Theatre, Marullo at the Hanover State Opera, Karol Poznański in the world premiere of Włodzimierz Korcz’s Łódź Story in Łódź and Bydgoszcz and Don Tabarrano in Hasse’s La contadina at the Rheinsberg Palace Theatre. He has appeared as Papageno in Barrie Kosky’s production of Die Zauberflöte with the Komische Oper Berlin on tour to Taiwan, Macau and South Korea. In concert, he has performed with the Lublin Philharmonic Orchestra, at the Festival Kilar+ in Gdánsk, at the Bucharest National Opera, with the Sinfonia Varsovia and at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.
Mikołaj Trąbka studied at the Music Academy in Łódź and was a member of the opera academy of the Polish National Opera. In 2018 he won the Stella Maris International Singing Competition.
