Biography

Born in Szczecin, Poland, Michał Partyka studied piano at the Conservatory and voice at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy in Poznań with Jerzy Mechliński. The winner of multiple competitions, he received the Grand Prize at the 9th National Singing Competition of Duszniki-Zdrój in 2008. The following year, he joined the Atelier Lyrique of the Opéra National de Paris.

He has played L’Auteur (Dauvergne’s La Répétition Interrompue/Les Troqueurs), the Cavaliere (Martinů’s Mirandolina) and Henry Davis (Weill’s Street Scene) with the Paris Opera’s Atelier Lyrique. On this opera house’s stage, he has played Schlemil (Les Contes d’Hoffmann), Sciarrone (Tosca), Melisso (Alcina) and Kuligin (Katya Kabanova) and sung P. Fénelon’s Madrigaux. He also sang Kuligin at the Wielki Theatre and Nardo (La Finta Giardiniera) at the MC93 Theatre in Bobigny. At the Radio-France and Montpellier Festival, he played Gesolmino (Madame Sans-Gêne), and at the Salzburg Festival, Professor Klingklang in the world premiere of M.-A. Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon, and the title role of Don Giovanni at the Toulon Opera.

Michał Partyka has also performed in concert at the Villa Medicis in Rome, in London and at the Palais Garnier with the Paris Opera Orchestra. He sang Don Quichotte à Dulcinée at the Maison de la Musique in Nanterre and at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne, Carmina Burana with the Silesian Opera, Mahler’s Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen at the Amphitheatre of the Bastille Opera and in Deauville, Nowowiejski’s Legenda Bałtyku with the Polish Radio Orchestra, and excerpts from Des Knaben Wunderhorn with the Orchestre National de Lorraine.

In 2009, he recorded Stanislaw Moniuszko’s Flis et Verbum Nobile with the Szczecin Castle Opera, conducted by Warcisław Kunc.

More recently, Michal Partyka has been given the roles of Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte) and Silvio (I Pagliacci) at the Poznan Opera, Dr Falke (Die Fledermaus) at the Reims and Tours Operas, Le Dancaïre (Carmen) at La Scala in Milan, Sparck (Offenbach’s Fantasio) at the Radio-France and Montpellier Festival, the Count (Le Nozze de Figaro) at the Toulon Opera,the title role of Eugene Onegin at the Saint-Étienne Opera, Frank/Fritz (Die Tote Stadt) and Escamillo (Carmen) in Warsaw, Monteverdi's Orfeo in Wroclaw, the title role of Eugen Oneguin in Dubai, Marullo (Rigoletto), Meru (Les Huguenots) at the Opéra National de Paris, Frank/Fritz (Die Tote Stadt) and he title role of  Billy Budd in Warsaw,Valentin (Faust) in Poznan, Don Giovanni in Saint-Etienne, Mitioukha (Boris Godounov) at the Paris National Opera.

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Michal Partyka won the First Prize of the Francisco Viñas Competition.