Pavol Breslik Tenor

Season 23/24 Artist – Season 24/25 Artist

After three years with the Ensemble of Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Pavol Breslik has been working independently since 2006, singing regularly in major European opera houses and festivals, as well as at New York's Metropolitan Opera. He was named Young Singer of the Year by Opernwelt magazine in 2005. He has sung Lenski (Eugène Onéguine), Nemorino (L'Élixir d'amour) and Alfredo (La Traviata) at the Vienna Staatsoper, and Gennaro (Lucrezia Borgia) and Edgardo (Lucia di Lammermoor) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich.

He has also sung Alfredo, Nemorino, Tamino (The Magic Flute), Belmonte (The Abduction from the Seraglio), Lenski, Idamante (Idomeneo), Narraboth (Salome), Cassio (Otello), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Henry Morosus (The Silent Woman) and more recently Hans (The Bartered Bride). At London's Royal Opera House, he has sung Lenski, Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Tamino and Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), and at Zurich Opera House, he has sung Don Ottavio, the title roles in Faust and Roberto Devereux, Nadir (The Pearl Fishers), Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Alfredo, Macduff (Macbeth), Belmonte, Nemorino and Lenski.

He made his debut as Nadir at the Sydney Opera House and recently sang his first Romeo (Romeo and Juliet) with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Pavol Breslik also performs in concert. Under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock, he took part in the opening concert of Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie. In 2018, he opened the Vienna Staatsoper and sang in the New Year's concert at the Dresden Semperoper under Christian Thielemann. In the 2023-2024 season, his roles include the title role in Idomeneo at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper, Edwin (The Princess Czardas) at Zurich Opera and Steva (Jenůfa) at Berlin's Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

At the Opéra national de Paris: The Magic Flute (Tamino), 2014, 2017; Tristan et Isolde (a young sailor / a shepherd), 2014