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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 asacting 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"), Masetto and 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 SacrumProfanum 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, Mendelssohn‘s „Paulus“ or Penderecki’s Polish Requiem.

Guest appearances have taken him to the Handel Festival in Halle as Polifemo in "Acisand 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 Sarastro "Die Zauberflöte" at the Festival of the German Language in the Theater Bad Lauchstädt, as Colline in Puccini's "La bohème" at the National Opera in Warsaw and as Fafner in Wagner’s "Siegfried" at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, in "Rheingold" and "Siegfried" during the Wagner Days in Müpa Budapest under the button of Ádám Fischer and in the premiere of "Rheingold" in the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore. Lukasz Konieczny's next engagements follow, among others, as Sparafucile in Verdi's "Rigoletto", in Verdi's "Requiem" and with a series of Schubert's "Winterreise"