Jerzy Artysz

Jerzy Artysz (18 November 1930 – 22 July 2024) was a Polish baritone and academic teacher. A long-term member of the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, he made an international career, performing all over Europe, in Israel, Canada and the United States. He performed title roles from Monteverdi's early Baroque L'Orfeo, to Mozart's Don Giovanni, Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, Verdi's Macbeth and Falstaff, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Szymanowski's King Roger, Enescu's Œdipe and Alban Berg's Wozzeck. In contemporary opera, he performed in Penderecki's Die schwarze Maske and Menotti's The Telephone; he created roles in the world premieres of Josep Soler's Oedipus et Jocasta at the Liceu in Barcelona in 1986 and of Paweł Mykietyn's Ignorant i szaleniec in Warsaw in 2001. During the 1970s he focused on teaching, both in Barcelona and in Warsaw.

Life and career Artysz was born in Sochaczew on 18 November 1930. a second prize and the Grand Prix at the International Singing Competition of Toulouse in 1959, and second prize at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1960.