Mariusz Kwiecie? is a Polish operatic baritone who has sung leading roles in the major opera houses of Europe and North America. He has received particular distinction in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni which he has sung at the Vienna State Opera, Bilbao Opera, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Warsaw Opera, Royal Opera House, London, and Seattle Opera where he won the company's 2006-2007 Artist of the Year award for this role, and the Metropolitan Opera. Kwiecie? studied at the Warsaw Academy and began his professional career as Aeneas in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas at the Krak�w Opera in 1993. In 1995 he sang the title role in The Marriage of Figaro in Luxembourg and Pozna?, and made his Warsaw Opera debut the following year as Stanis?aw in Moniuszko's rarely performed Verbum Nobile. Debuts in major European and American opera houses soon followed. A former student of the Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, he made his Met debut in 1999 as Kuligin in Jan�?ek's K�?a Kabanov�. [More at Wikipedia]

November 7th, 1972 in Kraków (Age 52)