Daniel KustosikBefore becoming an operetta beau, Daniel Kustosik played romantic lovers in the drama theatre. He was a member of a well-known and highly appreciated by critics Contemporary Theatre in Wrocław where he was offered to play Gustav in The Land of Smiles by Franz Lehár. He accepted the offer and quit the drama theatre. However, for a couple of years now as the director of the Musical Theatre in Poznań he has been staging dramas and farces.
Daniel Kustosik was born on 25th January 1950 in Legnica. In 1974 he graduated from the Academy of Music in Wrocław in the drama and vocal department. He qualified himself as assistant professor in the Theatre University in Cracow. Then for several years he worked as an assistant professor in the Academy of Music in Wrocław.
After his studies Daniel Kustosik was employed in the Drama Theatre in Wałbrzych where during two theatre seasons he played eight roles including the part of Don Rodrigo in Le Cid, Alfred in Husband and Wife and Hjalmar in The Wild Duck.
In the theatre season of 1976–1977 he moved to Wrocław where he was employed in the Contemporary Theatre. He took part in sixteen premieres: Mutter Courage (Young Peasant), The Departure of a Down-and-out (Obibok), Segmentowy (Antony), The Operetta (Petty Thief), The Stage Story about Aleksander Błok (Biełyj), Forefathers’ Eve (Hunter, Black, Devil), Fox–Hunting (Ex-count), Red and Brown (Count Heldorf), Shoemakers (Abramov), Forefathers’ Eve (Sorcerer, Corporal), Dummies Ball (Third Dummy, Second Mister), The Possessed (Stavrogin), Twelfth Night (Benvolio), There was (The Alluring One).
In 1982 the communist authorities of Poland dismissed Kazimierz Braun from his position of director of the Contemporary Theatre. The theatre troupe broke up. Mr. Kustosik got a tempting job offer from Wrocław Operetta. He accepted it and he remained in this circle of art, only changing theatres and cities. In Wrocław Operetta he was applauded in such plays as: The Land of Smiles (Gustav), Victoria and her Hussar (Ferry), My Friend Bunbury (Jack Worthing), Virtuous Susanna (Hubert), The Gypsy Princess (Boni), The Merry Widow (Danillo), Thank you, Eva (Janek). In Wrocław Opera he played in Inge Bartsch by Henryk Czyż (Strange Waiter, Apollo).
In the years 1984–1989 Daniel Kustosik was performing in different theatres all over Poland including Musical Theatre in Gdynia (My Fair Lady, Me and my Girl), Warsaw Operetta (The Swing, Night in Venice, My Fair Lady), in Cracow and in Silesia. In spring 1989 he arrived in Poznań to direct the musical Gigi and on 1st September 1989 he took over the post of director of Musical Theatre. Within eighteen years he performed in almost fifty operettas, musicals, musical comedies, farces. The most important ones in his career were Fiddler on the Roof (Tejwie), Zorba (Nico), Hello, Dolly (Cornel), Gigi (Gaston), My Fair Lady (Higgins), Me and my Girl (Bill), The Rape of the Sabine Women (Strzyga-Strzycki), The Threepenny Opera (Mack the Knife), Soldier of the Queen of Madagascar (Mazurkiewicz), The Inspector General Travels (Chlestakov), The Phantom of the Opera (Gerard Carierre), The Merry Widow (Danillo), Theatre Director (Bobo), Ball at the Savoy (Mustapha Bey), Countess Maritza (Baron Koloman Zsupan, Penizek), Victoria and her Hussar (Ferry), The Gypsy Princess (Boni), The Bat (Eisenstein), The Count of Luxembourg (Brisarde), The Waltz King (Johann Strauss II), The Land of Smiles (Lichtenfelds, Gustav), The Tsarevich (Grand Duke), Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? (George), Ball with Shakespeare (William)…
In the 1980s Daniel Kustosik started his film career. He played in two films directed by Roman Załuski: Rust and Wild, and in one by Paweł Komorowski: Mission. He also played in Talks of the Dead (TV Theatre), he was the narrator in pantomime tales and he produced his own program “Carnival Impressions”.
Daniel Kustosik quickly realized that singing was not enough for him. In the mid-80s he started directing performances mainly in musical theatres – since then, most often in Poznań but he has also sometimes been invited to the theatres in Gdynia, Łódź, Cracow and Bydgoszcz. So far he has directed The Gipsy Princess, Theatre Director, Gigi, Me and my Girl, Spanish Fly, Hello, Dolly, The Merry Widow, Ball at the Savoy, Kidnapping Pomponius, The Beggar Student, Hansel and Gretel, The Bat, Nunsense, Lovers of Paris, The Land of Smiles, Argument about Basia, The Inspector General Travels, Parisian Life, Countess Maritza, The Tsarevich, The Gypsy Baron, Viennese Blood.
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