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Bass
Adam Palka
"...it is simply a permanent joy to listen to him on stage, or on record. Endowed with almost colossal, telluric vocal means" - Olyrix, José Pons
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Biography Highlights
Future Engagements
Debuts as Mephistopheles Faust at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Wiener Staatsoper, as Escamillo Carmen at Canadian Opera Company*, Teatro Liceu Barcelona debut as Gremin Eugene Onegin*. Filippo II Don Carlo, Count Rodolfo La Sonnambula, Oroveso Norma, and Fasolt Das Rheingold at the Staatsoper Stuttgart.
Past Engagements
Debut at the Opéra de Paris Bastille as Skula Prince Igor, at the Staatsoper Stuttgart the title role Boris Godunov, the title character Mefistofele, Mephistopheles Faust, Sparafucile Rigoletto and the Four Villains Les contes d’Hoffmann. At the Teatro Real Madrid, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Staatsoper Stuttgart as Méphistophélès Faust, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and Staatsoper Stuttgart as Alidoro La Cenerentola. Figaro Le Nozze di Figaro at Oper Köln and at the Bolshoi Theater Moscow, Publio La Clemenza di Tito at the Polish National Opera Warsaw, Caronte Orlando paladino at Théâtre du Châtelet Paris, and Colline La bohème at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and Staatsoper Stuttgart. At the Glyndebourne Festival as Don Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia. The bass soloist part in Beethoven’s 9. Symphony with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker and Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the Szczecin Philharmonic*. [*- cancelled]
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Le Nozze di Figaro
Bolshoi Theatre Moscow - "Aprite un po' quegli occhi"
Le Nozze di Figaro
Bolshoi Theatre Moscow - "Aprite un po' quegli occhi"
Count Walter
Verdi - Luisa Miller
Count Walter
Verdi - Luisa Miller
Mephistopheles
Gounod - Faust
Mephistopheles
Gounod - Faust
Discography
Reviews & Press
Gran Teatre del Liceu - Mozart. - Don Giovanni - Il Commendatore
...the bass Adam Palka, whose character appears little but is crucial in the last act, made his deep voice resonate as the statue of the Commander.
El Periodico
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Oper Stuttgart - Mussorgski / Newski - Boris - Boris
Adam Palka gelang mit einem packend emotionalen Bass ein tolles Debüt als Boris.
- Jürgen Kanold , Heidenheim Zeitung
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Adam Palka leiht dem von Skrupeln geplagten Boris seinen tragfähigen Bass und lässt ihn fast wie einen tragischen Held erscheinen, der sich selbst demontiert.
- Werner Müller-Grimmel , Schwäbische Zeitung
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Paris National Opera - Borodin - Prince Igor -Skoula
La basse Adam Palka propose une voix large au phrasé percutant tandis
- Damien Dutilleul , Olyrix
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mais les deux soudards d'Adam Palka et Andrei Popov sont parfaitement appariés, apportant à l'épopée sa touche bouffonne.
- Emmanuel Dupuy , Diapason
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Rossini - Barbiere di Siviglia - Don Basilio
Adam Palka bellows formidably as Don Basilio
Financial Times
Visual surprises abounded, including smoke billowing from the cassock of Basilio during his Calumny aria – a louche, funny delivery from promising young bass Adam Palka.
- Amanda Holloway , Thestage.com
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The sonorous tones of Adam Palka as a very youthful and rather Mephistophelean Don Basilio are striking and he relishes all the dynamic and orchestra-mimicking opportunities of ‘La calumnia’.
- Alexander Campbell , Classical Source
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Grand Théâtre de Genève - Faust - Méphistophélès, February 2018
It is simply a permanent joy to listen to him on stage or on record. Endowed with almost colossal, telluric vocal means, the Polish bass Adam Palka makes light work of the role of Mephistopheles in both its evil and almost comical aspects. In fact, he's going too far in several occasions and mishandles the phrasing too often unnecessarily accentuating the vocal or musical intention. His French is not yet too idiomatic, but the artist has vast resources that once channeled a bit, should allow him to count among the main basses of our time.
- José Pons , Olyrix
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Stuttgart Opera - Les contes d'Hoffmann - Lindorf / Coppélius / Dapertutto / Miracle
Adam Palka, der mit wunderbar sonorem, trefflich sitzendem und ausdrucksstarkem Bass die vier Gegenspieler Hoffmanns Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Mirakel und Dapertutto sang, die er auch ansprechend spielte.
- Ludwig Steinbach , Der Opernfreund
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Grand Théâtre de Genève - Faust - Méphistophélès, February 2018
In Faust, the devil always gets the best tunes; in this production, he also got the best voice: as he was for Oper Stuttgart last season, Adam Palka was sensational. Unusually for a bass, his voice is youthful and virile whilst also having immense reserves of power. He could make Méphistophélès impossibly suave and attractive or turn him, in an instant, into a terrifying authoritarian. One normally associates the deep notes of a bass with gravel or velvet: with Palka, they were cold steel.
