Highlights of the 2026/27 season include Mateusz Ługowski’s role debut as Johann Fausten in Alfred Schnittke’s Historia von D. Johann Fausten at the Staatstheater Meiningen and his debut as the Grand Inquisitor in Verdi’s Don Carlos at Wrocław Opera. He will also appear on a tour of South Tyrol performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento under the baton of Alessandro Bonato.

The Polish baritone Mateusz Ługowski appeared during the 2025/26 season at Wrocław Opera as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Jochanaan (Salome), and Miecznik (Moniuszko’s Straszny Dwór). He also returned to the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk as Marcello (La bohème). At the Fondazione Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, he performed the role of Creon in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex.

During the 2024/25 season, he made numerous debuts on Polish opera stages: at the Grand Theatre in Poznań as Escamillo (Carmen) and Lescaut (Manon Lescaut), at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk as Marcello (La bohème), at Wrocław Opera as Escamillo, at the Polish National Opera in Warsaw as Monterone (Rigoletto), among other roles, and at the Baltic Opera Festival as the First Nazarene (Salome).

In the 2022/23 and 2023/24 seasons, he was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera, where he built a broad repertoire including Wagner (Faust), the Policeman (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Messer Amantio di Nicolao (Gianni Schicchi), Leib Boyar (Boris Godunov), Il Marchese d’Obigny and Baron Douphol (La traviata), Marullo (Rigoletto), Benoît (La bohème), Prince Yamadori (Madama Butterfly), a Captain (Eugene Onegin), and Billy Jackrabbit (La fanciulla del West).

He has collaborated with conductors including Stefano Ranzani, Paolo Carignani, Kent Nagano, Giampaolo Bisanti, Alexander Joel, Yaroslav Shemet, Aleksander Gref, Matteo Beltrami, Finnegan Downie Dear, Marco Guidarini, Nicolas André, Vladimir Kiradjiev, Grzegorz Wierus, and Andriy Yurkevych, as well as with stage directors Krzysztof Cicheński, Romuald Wicza-Pokojski, Axel Ranisch, Angelina Nikonova, Frank Castorf, Rares Zaharia, and Gerard Jones.

Mateusz Ługowski graduated with distinction in Vocal Studies from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in 2024. He is the recipient of several prizes at international vocal competitions, including Second Prize and the ZASP Prize at the Viva Calisia Competition in Kalisz (2022), as well as the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Award for Outstanding Support of Career Development at the Belvedere Singing Competition (2022).

In recognition of his artistic achievements, he has received numerous awards, including the Prize of the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and several Rector’s Scholarships from the Academy of Music in Poznań.

Prior to this, Mateusz Ługowski completed a degree in Choral Conducting at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań in 2022. He made his conducting debut with the Polish Dance Theatre in Poznań and at the Kaunas Philharmonic, where he conducted Widma by Stanisław Moniuszko.