The outstanding Polish bass Romuald Tesarowicz is a soloist of the Paris Opéra, the Teatro alla Scala and the Rome Opera. He made his début as Skołuba in Stanisław Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor, and in 1983 joined the Wielki Theatre in Łódź, where he sang leading bass parts in Boito’s Mefistofele, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Halévy’s La Juive, Wagner’s Die Walküre and Verdi’s Don Carlos. In 1986 he performed at the opening of the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, singing in Eugene Onegin and Lucia di Lammermoor. A year later he sang in Verdi’s Requiem at the Salle Pleyel in Paris. He has appeared in Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tsar’s Bride at the Rome Opera, Boris Godunov and Rigoletto at the Paris Opéra, Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Aida in Lyon, The Story of Tsar Saltan at Milan’s La Scala, and in Nabucco before the audiences of Toulouse, Marseille, Orange and many other French cities. Since its opening in 1989 he has appeared at the Paris Opéra Bastille, with Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Verdi’s Otello, and Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. In Poland he has sung at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw and the Silesian Opera in Bytom. His extensive repertoire includes oratorios by Bach, Handel and Haydn as well as songs by Polish, French, Russian and German composers. He has collaborated with Krzysztof Penderecki in performances of the latter’s Requiem, Te Deum and St Luke Passion. Romuald Tesarowicz has won many prizes, including second prize at the Adam Didur National Opera Competition, the Gold Medal and Roncorogni Prize at the Voci Verdiane vocal competition in Busseto, the Grand Prix and the audience award at the 21st Moniuszko Festival in Kudowa Zdrój, and second prize at the opera competition in Barcelona. He has recorded extensively for radio and television in Europe and America.