Brzeziński Wacław Cyprian, *15 September 1878 Warsaw, †13 February 1955 Warsaw, Polish singer (baritone). He studied in Italy with A. Broggi and G. Marin, and in 1904 made his debut in Martha by F. Flotow on the stage of the Teatro del Corso in Bologna. He sang on other Italian stages and later in Lviv. In 1906, after a period of further education with W. Aleksandrowicz, he appeared at the Warsaw Opera as Silvio in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo. From 1909–1925 he was a regular soloist on this stage, performing almost all parts of the great repertoire. He was known as a performer of costume roles (The Haunted Manor by Moniuszko), and also gave outstanding performances in The Barber of Seville by Rossini, Rigoletto and La Traviata by Verdi, Puccini’s Tosca, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, The Demon by Rubinstein, Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots. In 1916–1917, together with several other artists, he was a member of the ensemble directorships of the Warsaw Opera. In 1926 he retired from the stage, taking up teaching work at his own opera school in 1927, which he continued in 1930–1932 at the Warsaw Conservatory, and, after the Second World War, at the State Higher School of Music in Łódź. His students were, among others, M. Karwowska, Z. Tisserant-Parzyńska, J. Kiepura, J. Garda, J. Czaplicki, E. Mossakowski, B. Niemyski. From 1950 Brzeziński held the vocal directorship of the Warsaw Opera and Philharmonic.
