Tomasz Konieczny
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Tomasz Konieczny (ˈtɔmaʂ kɔˈɲɛt͡ʂnɨ; born 10 January 1972) is a Polish
-born bass-baritone
.
He made his debut in a film directed by Oscar prize winning director Andrzej Wajda
The Ring with the Eagle following this he worked as an actor/director in many TV, film and theatre productions in Poland.
Tomasz Konieczny is the recipient of many awards, including the Polish Arts and Culture Prize, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation Prize, the Stadtsparkasse Prize in Dresden, and second Prize in the International Dvořák competition in Karlsbad.
He made his debut as a singer in 1997 in the role of Figaro/Marriage of Figaro in Poznań
, Poland.
Two years later he made his debut at the Oper Leipzig
as Kecal in the Bartered Bride/Smetana
where he remained for the season 1999-2000.
In 2000 he was engaged as a Bass at the Thater Lübeck where he sang Procida/I Vespri Siciliani, Pandolph/Cendrillon
, Orest/Elektra
and Ramphis/Aida.
Since 2002/2003 he has been a member of the ensemble of Nationaltheater Mannheim
where he received the Arnold Petersen Prize for talented young singers, his roles in Mannheim have included Orest/Elektra
, Pimen/Boris Godunow, King Mark/Tristan & Isolde, Sarastro/The Magic Flute
, Amfortas/Parsifal
, Wotan/Rheingold
, Wotan/Walküre, Pizzaro/Fidelio
, Grand Inquisitor/Don Carlos
, Melitone/La forza del destino
and Johanaan/Salome
.
In February 2005 he made his debut at the Staatstheater Stuttgart
as Sarastro and in June 2005 as King Vladislav in Smetana's "Dalibor" at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken.
In September he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein
as Osmin in April 2006 as Melitone/La forza del destino
and in May 2006 as Wotan/Rheingold
. In the season, 2006/7 he become a member of the Ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg. He sang here 2006: Bottom/A Midsummer Night's Dream
, 2007: Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde
, Golaud/Pelléas et Mélisande
, Turco/Il Turco in Italia
, 2008: Amfortas/Parsifal
.
In June 2006 he sang at Budapester Wagner Tage as Amfortas/Parsifal
. The conductor was Ádám Fischer
(Gurnemanz- Matti Salminen
, Parsifal - Christian Franz, Klingsor - Günter von Kannen), und in June 2007 Wotan/Walküre.
In August 2006 he made his debut in Matthäuspassion
/Arias of Bach in São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro. The Conductor was Kent Nagano
.
In January 2008 he made his debut at the Semperoper
Dresden as Alberich. The Conductor was Peter Schneider
.
In April 2008 he made also his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Alberich (new production of Ring des Niebelungen). The Conductor will be Franz Welser-Möst
.
Poles
thumb|right|180px|The state flag of [[Poland]] as used by Polish government and diplomatic authoritiesThe Polish people, or Poles , are a nation indigenous to Poland. They are united by the Polish language, which belongs to the historical Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages of Central Europe...
-born bass-baritone
Bass-baritone
A bass-baritone is a high-lying bass or low-lying "classical" baritone voice type which shares certain qualities with the true baritone voice. The term arose in the late 19th century to describe the particular type of voice required to sing three Wagnerian roles: the Dutchman in Der fliegende...
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Life and work
Tomasz Konieczny, was born on 10 January 1972 in Łódź, Poland. He commenced his studies as an actor at the Film, TV and Theatre Academy in Łódź. Following this he studied voice at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy in Warsaw, finishing his studies under the guidance of Professor Christian Elßner at the Hochschule "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden .He made his debut in a film directed by Oscar prize winning director Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda
Andrzej Wajda is a Polish film director. Recipient of an honorary Oscar, he is possibly the most prominent member of the unofficial "Polish Film School"...
The Ring with the Eagle following this he worked as an actor/director in many TV, film and theatre productions in Poland.
Tomasz Konieczny is the recipient of many awards, including the Polish Arts and Culture Prize, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation Prize, the Stadtsparkasse Prize in Dresden, and second Prize in the International Dvořák competition in Karlsbad.
He made his debut as a singer in 1997 in the role of Figaro/Marriage of Figaro in Poznań
Poznan
Poznań is a city on the Warta river in west-central Poland, with a population of 556,022 in June 2009. It is among the oldest cities in Poland, and was one of the most important centres in the early Polish state, whose first rulers were buried at Poznań's cathedral. It is sometimes claimed to be...
, Poland.
Two years later he made his debut at the Oper Leipzig
Oper Leipzig
Oper Leipzig is an opera house and opera company in Leipzig, Germany.The Leipzig Opera traces its establishment to the year 1693, making it the third oldest opera venue in Europe after La Fenice and the Hamburg State Opera...
as Kecal in the Bartered Bride/Smetana
Smetana
Smetana is a Slavic loanword in English for a dairy product that is produced by souring heavy cream. Smetana is from Central and Eastern Europe, sometimes perceived to be specifically of Russian origin. It is a soured cream product like crème fraîche , but nowadays mainly sold with 15% to 30%...
where he remained for the season 1999-2000.
In 2000 he was engaged as a Bass at the Thater Lübeck where he sang Procida/I Vespri Siciliani, Pandolph/Cendrillon
Cendrillon
Cendrillon is an opera—described as a "fairy tale"—in four acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Cain based on Perrault's 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. The scenario was conceived by Massenet and Cain at the Cavendish Hotel while they were in London for the...
, Orest/Elektra
Elektra (opera)
Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
and Ramphis/Aida.
Since 2002/2003 he has been a member of the ensemble of Nationaltheater Mannheim
Nationaltheater Mannheim
The present National Theatre Mannheim , which dates from 1957, is a theatre and opera company in Mannheim, Germany with a variety of performance spaces...
where he received the Arnold Petersen Prize for talented young singers, his roles in Mannheim have included Orest/Elektra
Elektra (opera)
Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal...
, Pimen/Boris Godunow, King Mark/Tristan & Isolde, Sarastro/The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
, Amfortas/Parsifal
Parsifal
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...
, Wotan/Rheingold
Rheingold
Rheingold may refer to:* Rheingold, mystic treasure mentioned in the Nibelungenlied* Das Rheingold,a 1869 opera by Richard Wagner, based on the mystic treasure* Rheingold , 2003* Rheingold...
, Wotan/Walküre, Pizzaro/Fidelio
Fidelio
Fidelio is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora...
, Grand Inquisitor/Don Carlos
Don Carlos
Don Carlos is a five-act grand opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Méry, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien by Friedrich Schiller...
, Melitone/La forza del destino
La forza del destino
La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
and Johanaan/Salome
Salome (opera)
Salome is an opera in one act by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by the composer, based on Hedwig Lachmann’s German translation of the French play Salomé by Oscar Wilde. Strauss dedicated the opera to his friend Sir Edgar Speyer....
.
In February 2005 he made his debut at the Staatstheater Stuttgart
Staatstheater Stuttgart
The Staatstheater Stuttgart ' is an opera house in Stuttgart, Germany. It is also known locally as the Grosses Haus, having been the larger of two theatres of the former Königliche Hoftheater....
as Sarastro and in June 2005 as King Vladislav in Smetana's "Dalibor" at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken.
In September he made his debut at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
The Deutsche Oper am Rhein is an opera company based in Düsseldorf and Duisburg. The opera also has an associated classical ballet company....
as Osmin in April 2006 as Melitone/La forza del destino
La forza del destino
La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
and in May 2006 as Wotan/Rheingold
Rheingold
Rheingold may refer to:* Rheingold, mystic treasure mentioned in the Nibelungenlied* Das Rheingold,a 1869 opera by Richard Wagner, based on the mystic treasure* Rheingold , 2003* Rheingold...
. In the season, 2006/7 he become a member of the Ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf/Duisburg. He sang here 2006: Bottom/A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a play that was written by William Shakespeare. It is believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta...
, 2007: Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Straßburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting...
, Golaud/Pelléas et Mélisande
Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
Pelléas et Mélisande is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande...
, Turco/Il Turco in Italia
Il turco in Italia
Il turco in Italia is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The Italian-language libretto was written by Felice Romani...
, 2008: Amfortas/Parsifal
Parsifal
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...
.
In June 2006 he sang at Budapester Wagner Tage as Amfortas/Parsifal
Parsifal
Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. It is loosely based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the 13th century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival and his quest for the Holy Grail, and on Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, the Story of the Grail.Wagner first conceived the work...
. The conductor was Ádám Fischer
Ádám Fischer
Ádám Fischer is a Hungarian conductor of Jewish family origin. He is the general music director of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, with which he has recorded the complete Haydn symphonies for the Nimbus label, the first digital recording of the cycle...
(Gurnemanz- Matti Salminen
Matti Salminen
Matti Salminen is a Finnish operatic bass singer, who has sung at all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival....
, Parsifal - Christian Franz, Klingsor - Günter von Kannen), und in June 2007 Wotan/Walküre.
In August 2006 he made his debut in Matthäuspassion
Matthäuspassion
The St Matthew Passion, BWV 244, , is a musical composition from the Passions written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander . It sets chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew to music, with interspersed chorales and arias...
/Arias of Bach in São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro. The Conductor was Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano
__FORCETOC__Kent George Nagano is an American conductor and opera administrator. He is currently the music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and the Bavarian State Opera.-Biography:...
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In January 2008 he made his debut at the Semperoper
Semperoper
The Semperoper is the opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden and the concert hall of the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden . It is located near the Elbe River in the historic center of Dresden, Germany.The opera house was originally built by the architect Gottfried Semper in 1841...
Dresden as Alberich. The Conductor was Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider
Peter Schneider may refer to:* Peter Schneider , German novelist* Peter Schneider , US movie executive, former president of the Walt Disney Studios...
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In April 2008 he made also his debut at the Wiener Staatsoper as Alberich (new production of Ring des Niebelungen). The Conductor will be Franz Welser-Möst
Franz Welser-Möst
Franz Welser-Möst is an Austrian conductor who is currently the music director for the Cleveland Orchestra and the Vienna State Opera.- Biography :...
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