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    Biography

    Lukasz Konieczny Bass.

Bass Lukasz Konieczny was born in Lodz, Poland and studied singing at the Music Academy in Wroclaw. Master classes with renowned singers and pedagogues such as Prof. Christian Elsner, Deborah Polaski, Franz Grundheber, Linda Watson, David Syrus as well as acting courses at the International Film School Cologne completed his education. 

In the years 2011 - 2019 he was a member of the ensemble of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein. 

His repertoire includes the Mozart parts of Bartolo ("Le nozze di Figaro"), Il Commendatore ("Don Giovanni"), or Sarastro („Die Zauberflöte“), as well as roles such as Zuniga (Bizet "Carmen"), Crespel/Luther (Offenbach "Les Contes d'Hoffmann"), Rocco (Beethoven "Fidelio"), Barone Douphol (Verdi "La traviata"), Sparafucile (Verdi "Rigoletto"), Banco (Verdi "Macbeth"), Bonzo (Puccini "Madama Butterfly"), Fafner (Wagner "Rheingold" and "Siegfried"), Hunding (Wagner "Walküre"), Truffaldin (Strauss "Ariadne auf Naxos") or Dr. Behrens in the world premiere of Pawel Mykietyn's "Der Zauberberg" in Poznan at the Malta Festival and at the Festival Sacrum Profanum in Krakow. Konieczny's repertoire also includes bass parts in important concert works such as Beethoven‘s "9th Symphony", Mozart‘s "Requiem" und "Coronation Mass", Dvorak‘s "Requiem" and "Stabat Mater", Mendelssohn‘s "Paulus“ or Penderecki’s "Polish Requiem".

Guest appearances have taken him to the Handel Festival in Halle as Polypheme in "Acis and Galatea", to the Mainfrankentheater in Würzburg as Rocco, to the Hamburg State Opera as Sparafucile and to the Munich Opera Festival as Douphol. At the Dresden Semperoper Lukasz Konieczny appeared in 2017/18 as Crespel/Luther and Lodovico in Verdi's "Otello" and as Il Re in Verdi's "Aida" at Dubai Opera together with the National Opera Warsaw. In 2019/20 he returned to the Bavarian State Opera as Reinmar von Zweter in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and as Sparafucile in Verdi's "Rigoletto" at the National Opera Warsaw. 

Lukasz Konieczny has recently appeared as Rocco "Fidelio" at the Baltic Opera in Danzig, as Eremit in Weber's "Freischütz" during the Eutiner Festspiele 2024, in Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" at German National Theatre Weimar and with a stage version of Schubert's "Winter Journey" in the Berlin Philharmonic, as Fafner at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein and in the premiere of "Rheingold" in the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. 2024 Lukasz Konieczny performed also in the world premiere of Zygmunt Krauze's "The Marriage" at the Opera Poznan.

Lukasz Konieczny's next engaments follow, among others, in premiere of Strauss's "Salome" at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, in Schubert's "Winterreise" and in Krzysztof Penderecki's "Credo" in Rome.