Tomasz Konieczny
Following his sensational success as Alberich, Jochanaan, and Wotan/Wanderer in the 2013 Ring Cycle and also as Jack Rance (La fanciulla del West), Kammersänger Tomasz Konieczny was heard at the Vienna State Opera in subsequent years as Jochanaan, Cardillac, and Telramund.
Today, he is a regular guest artist at, among others, the Metropolitan Opera, the Bayreuth Festival, Zurich, Prague, the Semperoper, the Bavarian State Opera, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, and the Teatro Real in Madrid.
He was born in Łódź, Poland, and initially studied acting at the Łódź Film Academy. He studied singing in Warsaw and Dresden. He made his singing debut in 1997 at the Poznań Opera as Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro).
Most recently, he sang roles including Wanderer (Siegfried) in Madrid, Cardillac in Warsaw, the Dutchman at the Bavarian State Opera and the Paris Opera, Kaspar (Der Freischütz) in Munich, Pizarro (Fidelio) in Florence, Wotan (Die Walküre) in Copenhagen, Rheingold-Wotan in Zurich, Wotan (Die Walküre) and Wanderer in the new Ring production at the Bayreuth Festival 2022, as well as Wagner concerts in Budapest and Tokyo. The most important projects of the 2024/25 season included Jochanaan in Vienna, The Dutchman in Zurich and Hamburg, Don Pizarro at the MET, his role debut as Boris Godunov in Amsterdam and again Wotan/Wanderer in Bayreuth.
