Performers
Tomasz Konieczny
Bass-baritone, graduate of the Acting Department of the Leon Schiller Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, the Academy of Music in Warsaw, and Christian Elsner’s class of solo voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden. He performs at the world’s major opera houses and festivals, such as Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York’s Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburger Festspiele, the Bayreuther Festspiele, and Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper.
For many years he made his artistic home at Vienna’s Staatsoper, where in 2019 he was awarded the title of Kammersänger (the highest honorific title for distinguished singers in the German-speaking world) and in 2018 – an honorary Austrian citizenship. In Vienna, Konieczny has sung the leading roles in nearly two hundred operatic spectacles. He has won fame for his performances of the German- language repertoire, including Wagner, Strauss, Berg, and Hindemith. He collaborates with the greatest living composers.
His repertoire includes such operatic parts as Wotan and Alberich (in Wagner’s Ring cycle), Amfortas (Parsifal), Jochanaan (Salome), Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Scarpia (Tosca), Wozzeck, Friedrich von Telramund (Lohengrin), Jack Rance (La fanciulla del west), Mandryka (Arabella), Janusz (Halka), Cardillac, and many others. He has collaborated with such celebrities as Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Franz Welser-Möst, Zubin Mehta, Adam Fischer, Christian Thielemann, Peter Schneider, and Riccardo Chailly.
For many years he made his artistic home at Vienna’s Staatsoper, where in 2019 he was awarded the title of Kammersänger (the highest honorific title for distinguished singers in the German-speaking world) and in 2018 – an honorary Austrian citizenship. In Vienna, Konieczny has sung the leading roles in nearly two hundred operatic spectacles. He has won fame for his performances of the German- language repertoire, including Wagner, Strauss, Berg, and Hindemith. He collaborates with the greatest living composers.
His repertoire includes such operatic parts as Wotan and Alberich (in Wagner’s Ring cycle), Amfortas (Parsifal), Jochanaan (Salome), Barak (Die Frau ohne Schatten), Scarpia (Tosca), Wozzeck, Friedrich von Telramund (Lohengrin), Jack Rance (La fanciulla del west), Mandryka (Arabella), Janusz (Halka), Cardillac, and many others. He has collaborated with such celebrities as Kent Nagano, Marek Janowski, Krzysztof Penderecki, Franz Welser-Möst, Zubin Mehta, Adam Fischer, Christian Thielemann, Peter Schneider, and Riccardo Chailly.
