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ANDRZEJ DOBBER was born in Poland, studied in Krakow and Nürnberg and began his singing career as a Bass at the Nürnberger Opera. After he changed to baritone, he was engaged at the Frankfurt Opera, where he began his international career, which leads him today to all important stages like the Milan Scala, the New York Metropolitan Opera, the Dresdner Semperoper, the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the Hamburgische Staatsoper, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam, the Mariinski-Theater in St. Petersburg, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, in Glyndebourne, Brussels and Paris. Included among his roles are the leading roles in Simon Boccanegra, Macbeth, Rigoletto, Król Roger and Nabucco, furthermore Renato in Un ballo in maschera, Jago in Otello, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, Carlo Gérard in Andrea Chénier, Amonasro in Aida, Alfio in Cavalleria rusticana, Tonio in Pagliacci, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, Jochanaan in Salome, Tomski in Pique Dame and Amfortas in Parsifal. In 2015 he was awarded the title “Hamburger Kammersänger”. He gave his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper in 2009 as Simon Boccanegra and also sang Nabucco, Schaklowity and Macbeth.