Rafał Bartmiński was born in Lublin, Poland in 1977 and made his operatic début as Lenski in Eugene Onegin at the Teatr Wielki, Poznań in 2002. Since then he has appeared regularly with the Polish National Opera in Warsaw and with Opera Wrocławska. His rôles have included Jontek (Halka), Le Pecheur (Le Rossignol), Stefan (Straszny Dwór), Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly), Tamino (The Magic Flute), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), and the Shepherd (Król Roger) among others. Tours with Polish National Opera have taken him to London, Vilnius, Spain, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. In 2009 he made his début at the Bolshoy Theatre in Moscow as the Drum-Major (Wozzeck) and in 2011 at the Wexford Festival as Waclaw in Roman Statkowski’s Maria. He appears regularly in concerts with leading Polish and foreign orchestras including the MDR-Sinfonieorchester conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki.