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A Wily Temptress Undone by Love, or Perhaps by a Transitory Spell

"The bass Wojtek Gierlach was a stentorian Melisso"

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27 October 2014www.nytimes.comAnthony Tommasini
A luminous DiDonato leads superb cast in Handel’s “Alcina” at Carnegie

"Bass Wojtek Gierlach ... as Melisso ... sang strongly."

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27 October 2014newyorkclassicalreview.comGeorge Grella

Past Production Reviews

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Alcina, Händel
C: Harry Bicket
A Wily Temptress Undone by Love, or Perhaps by a Transitory Spell

"The bass Wojtek Gierlach was a stentorian Melisso"

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27 October 2014www.nytimes.comAnthony Tommasini
A luminous DiDonato leads superb cast in Handel’s “Alcina” at Carnegie

"Bass Wojtek Gierlach ... as Melisso ... sang strongly."

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27 October 2014newyorkclassicalreview.comGeorge Grella
I puritani, Bellini
D: Annilese Miskimmon
C: Carlo Rizzi
Rosa Feola shines in Welsh National Opera's I puritani

"Wojtek Gierlach’s Giorgio Valton had a richness of tone that made him more than simply the avuncular figure who supports Elvira’s wish to marry Arturo, and his duet with Elvira, “Sai com’ardi in petto mio”, gave this gifted Polish bass an equal partnership with Rosa Feola’s outstanding coloratura soprano."

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12 September 2015bachtrack.comSimon Rees
I Puritani at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff

"There’s a strikingly powerful Giorgio from the Polish bass Wojtek Gierlach."

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15 September 2015www.thetimes.co.ukRichard Morrison
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Op. 29, Shostakovich
D: Richard Jones
C: Antonio Pappano
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Royal Opera, ROH, Covent Garden, April 2018

"...the many solo roles were all extremely well sung, notably the sonorous bass of Wojtek Gierlach as the priest"

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13 April 2018www.markronan.comMark Ronan
The Royal Opera Scintillates in Shostakovich’s Raw Lady Macbeth

"Gierlach’s voice has huge resonance"

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14 April 2018seenandheard-international.comColin Clarke
Fidelio, Beethoven
D: David Pountney
C: Lothar Koenigs
BRUNDIBAR, THE PRISONER AND FIDELIO, MILLENNIUM CENTRE, CARDIFF

"Wojtek Gierlach was an excellent Rocco"

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23 June 2019criticscircle.org.ukLucien Jenkins
I vespri siciliani, Verdi
D: David Pountney
C: Carlo RizziGareth Jones
Episode II des Vêpres siciliennes de Verdi (en français) : Cardiff !

"Wojtek Gierlach tire également son épingle du jeu avec brio : ses constants appels au nationalisme le plus obtus ne lassent musicalement jamais, tant son art du legato sait conférer noblesse et élégance au personnage de Procida"

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13 February 2020www.opera-online.comEmmanuel Andrieu
Alcina, Händel
C: Harry Bicket
Brave New World: Handel’s Alcina The English Concert & soloists, conducted by Harry Bicket — Los Angeles Opera, November 2, 2021

"Melisso (to die for—Wojtek Gierlach—outstanding in the role)"

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11 November 2021artillerymag.comEzrha Jean Black
Alcina, Händel
C: Harry Bicket
The English Concert's Alcina

"The singing was uniformly wonderful, from bass Wojtek Gierlach's grave, authoritative Melisso"

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08 November 2021operatattler.typepad.comLucy Crowe