Artur Ruciński

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Artur Ruciński

Artur Ruciński (born April 25, 1976 in Warsaw ) is a Polish opera singer with a baritone voice .

Life

Ruciński studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in his hometown and made his debut in 2001 as Papageno in The Magic Flute at the Warsaw Chamber Opera . In the following year he was invited by the Polish National Opera to take on the title role in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin . This was followed by Prince Jeletzki in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades , conducted by Valery Gergiev , and in 2008 Valentin in a Robert Wilson production of Gounod's Faust . At the Warsaw Opera, Ruciński was able to develop a broad repertoire of roles, ranging from Mozart's Papageno, his Guglielmo ( Così fan tutte ) and Almaviva ( Le nozze di Figaro ) to the classical bel canto parts to Puccini , Tchaikovsky and modern composers . He sang Ford in Verdi's Falstaff , Sharpless and Lescaut in Puccini's operas Madama Butterfly and Manon Lescaut, and Gradier in Penderecki's The Devils of Loudun . He appeared in a baritone version of Nicklausse / Muse in Harry Kupfer's production of Offenbach's Les Contes d'Hoffmann .

In 2009 Ruciński made his debut in the title role of Szymanowski's Król Roger at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, ​​followed by his international breakthrough in 2010 as Eugen Onegin together with tenor Rolando Villazón and under the direction of Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin and with the scenic World premiere of Mieczysław Weinberg's main work The Passenger at the Bregenz Festival . In the 2010/11 season he finally made his debut as Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Hamburg State Opera , where he subsequently as Ford and Lescaut, as Figaro in Rossini di Siviglia Barbiere Il and as Giorgio Germont in Verdi's La traviata experience was. Since 2010 he has also been guest at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía in Valencia, as Onegin, as Lescaut with Lorin Maazel on the podium, and soon as Malatesta in Don Pasquale . In Łódź he sang Riccardo in Bellini's I puritani and in Lviv Silvio in Leoncavallos Pagliacci .

In 2011 Ruciński made his debut as Mercutio in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette in the Verona Arena , where he has since appeared regularly - also as Giorgio Germont and Conte di Luna. In between, he kept returning to Warsaw to sing Eugene Onegin and Prince Jeletzki, Janusz in Moniuszkos Halka and Ezio in Verdi's Attila in his hometown . He also returned to Berlin - as Almaviva under Barenboim. In 2012 he made his debut as Francesco di Moor in Verdi's I masnadieri at the historic Teatro San Carlo in Naples and as Marcello in Puccini's La Bohème at the Los Angeles Opera , in a role that he had previously sung in Poland.

2013 saw a number of debuts at major opera houses: in January as Miller in Verdi's Luisa Miller at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, as Francesco di Moor at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and later also in Parma, in February as Ford at the Opéra National de Paris , in May as Conto di Luna in Verdi's Il trovatore in the Theater an der Wien (as part of the Wiener Festwochen ), then in the same role in the Arena di Verona, in October as Francesco di Moor in Parma and in November as Ford in Bari. In 2014 the singer introduced himself at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, conducted by Kirill Petrenko , and at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna as Eugen Onegin and sang Ford at the Frankfurt Opera with Bertrand de Billy on the podium. He also jumped very successfully as Conte di Luna for the sick Plácido Domingo at the Salzburg Festival . His partners in Alvis Hermanis ' monumental production of Il trovatore were Anna Netrebko , Marie-Nicole Lemieux and Francesco Meli , and the audience and critics reacted enthusiastically. In February 2016 he made his debut as Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

In the concert hall

He sang for Polskie Radio and Telewizja Polska at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 2002 in the world premiere of Osvaldas Balakauskas ' chamber opera La Lointaine . For BNT , the Bulgarian television, he sang in Gabriel Fauré's Requiem . In Paris he took over singing solos in Georg Friedrich Handel's Messiah and in Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony . In Sofia and Oslo as well as in the Wiener Musikverein he could be heard in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana .

The memorial concert on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the National Socialist attack on Poland in Gdańsk with Benjamin Britten's War Requiem received international attention. In May 2010 he was involved in the opening gala of the Wiener Festwochen at Vienna City Hall Square , which was broadcast live to more than 25 countries. In 2011 he made his debut at the Dresden Philharmonic in Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion . His first appearance in Great Britain followed in January 2012: Artur Ruciński was invited to sing a Rosenblatt recital in London's St John's Concert Hall in Smith Square . The Rosenblatt Recitals are a series of solo evenings by aspiring or already recognized opera singers. In addition to a number of arias, he also sang Tadeusz Baird's Four Love Sonnets , based on Polish translations of Shakespeare sonnets . In Naples, the singer - under the direction of Nicola Luisotti - took over solos in Puccini's Messa di Gloria and in Mahler's songs for the death of children .

On December 20, 2014, Ruciński performed in the traditional Advent concert Christmas in Vienna in the Wiener Konzerthaus , together with Natalia Ushakova , Vesselina Kasarova , Ramón Vargas , the Wiener Singakademie and the Vienna Boys' Choir . In February 2015 he sang Karol Szymanowski's Stabat mater with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Vienna) under Ingo Metzmacher . On December 19, 2015 he sang again at Christmas in Vienna in the Konzerthaus - this time together with Piotr Beczała , Angelika Kirchschlager and Valentina Naforniță . It was played by the Vienna RSO under the direction of Erwin Ortner .

Awards (selection)

Recordings (selection)

DVD

CD

  • Solo album Songs and Arias

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artur Ruciński ( Memento from November 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at IMG Artists
  2. ^ Criticism of the Faust production in Dziennik Łódzki ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Critique of the Berlin Onegin in Rzeczpospolita
  4. ↑ Critique of Berlin's Onegin in Boulezian
  5. ↑ Hans-Juergen Fink: Belcanto star hour for the season opening. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 7, 2010 (review; subscription required)
  6. ^ Estelle Gilson: La Bohème, LA opera. In: Opera Today. June 5, 2012 (Review)
  7. ↑ Review of La Bohème in Gazeta Wyborcza Poznań (archived on e-teatr.pl )
  8. ^ Website of the Rosenblatt Recital Series ( Memento from November 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ I masnadieri on C Major Entertainment
personal data
SURNAME Ruciński, Artur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish opera singer with a baritone voice
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw