Bogdan PAPROCKI (1919 - 2010) in memoriam
Bogdan Paprocki, Polish opera legend, died in Warsaw on September 3, 2010, three weeks before his 91st birthday.
He was born in Torun on September 23, 1919. He studied with the legendary singer Ignacy Dygas.
In November 1946 Paprocki made his debut at age 27 on the stage of the Silesian opera in Bytom as Alfredo in Verdi's Traviata. In 1957 he took a permanent position with the scene of Warsaw National opera - The Grand Theatre. He was a brilliant performer in two major operas by Stanislaw Moniuszko : Stephen in The Haunted Minor -250 performances- and Jontek -248 performances -in Halka.
(his debut as Alfredo opposite Barbara Kostrzewska in 1946, courtesy Lilliana Osses Adams)
His career spanned almost seven decades on the concert platform and the operatic stage and included appearances in over 2,500 performances and concerts in Poland and abroad. Paprocki sang in the former Soviet Union, Hungary, Israel, Canada, the US, Germany, Rumania, Mexico, London and China amongst others. While on tour in the US in 1959 he was offered an engagement with the New York City opera but he turned it down because he didn't want to migrate from Poland.
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 90 years old famous Polish tenor still in good shape ! The song "If I were younger, girl" performed by absolute operatic phenomenon Bogdan Paprocki during his 90th birthday anniversary celebration concert on September 23, 2009 in Silesian Opera in Bytom, Poland.
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:  Conductor Jerzy Semkow
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