TOMASZ KONIECZNY
He studied acting at the Film, Television and Theatre Academy, solo singing at the Fryderyk Chopin Academy in Warsaw and C. M. von Weber Music University, in the class of Prof. Christian Elsner in Dresden. He made his debut in a film directed by Oscar prize winning director Andrzej Wajda The Ring with the Eagle, following which he worked as actor in many TV film and theatre productions in Poland. He worked as a theatre director as well. He was a scholarship holder of copious Polish and foreign foundations. In 2004 he received the Arnold-Petersen-Award, a special prize for outstanding artistic achievements in the National Theatre in Mannheim. As an opera singer he made his debut in December 1997, singing FIGARO in Le nozze di Figaro at the Poznan Opera. His German debut took place in January 1999 in the Leipzig Opera; cooperation from 1999- 2000. In 2000 he was employed in the Lubeca Theatre, where he performed copious opera parts as a bass singer. Tomasz Konieczny is an active singer of the oratorio masterpieces. In the beginning of 2002/2003 theatre season he was employed in the National Theatre in Mannheim. In February 2005 he debuted in the Stuttgart Opera, in September 2005 in the German Opera am Rhein/Duiburg, with which he started the continuous cooperation in the season 2006/2007. The artist appeared on many prestigious world’s concert stages: in Budapest during the 1st Wagner Budapest days, in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in the National Philharmonics, in Semperoper in Dresden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Staatsoper Wien. He sang under the baton of copious distinctive conductors: Adam Fischer, Kent Nagano, Antoni Wit, Peter Schneider, and Franz Welser – Mösta in Mai 2009. His next debut in the role of Alberich in the Ring of the Nibelungs will be in Deutsche Oper Berlin. The Wien Opera has just engaged Tomasz Konieczny for the next cycles of the Ring of the Nibelungs. In autumn 2010 he will also perform there, as Goldhändler in the opera Cardillak, and in the beginning of 2011 as Jochanaan in Salome by R. Strauss, finally, in June 2011 as Wotan in Valkyrie by R. Wagner.
