Artur Ruciński
Artur Ruciński (born 1976 in Warsaw) is a Polish baritone opera singer.
Ruciński studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music and made his debut as Papageno in The Magic Flute with Warsaw Chamber Opera in 2001.[1] In 2002 he made his debut at Warsaw's National Theatre, taking the title role in Eugene Onegin. He went on to sing Onegin with the Berlin State Opera,[2][3] and Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor for Hamburg State Opera.[4]
Other roles have included Figaro in The Barber of Seville, Prince Yeletsky in The Queen of Spades, Marcello in La bohème,[5] Riccardo in I puritani and Valentin in Faust.[6]
In the 2011-12 season Ruciński was scheduled to sing Marcello in La bohème, the Count in The Marriage of Figaro and Germont in La traviata.[7] In January 2012 he made his UK debut, giving a recital of opera arias and Tadeusz Baird's Four Love Sonnets, settings of Polish translations from Shakespeare, at London's St John's, Smith Square.[8] In May 2012 he made his American debut as Marcello with LA Opera.[9] He appears on a DVD live recording of Verdi's I masnadieri released in January 2013.[10]
References
- ↑ IMG Artists website Archived November 5, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Review in Rzeczpospolita
- ↑ Boulezian review
- ↑ Review in Hamburger Abendblatt
- ↑ Review in Gazeta Wyborcza Poznań
- ↑ Review in Dziennik Łódzki
- ↑ Schedule at Operabase.
- ↑ Rosenblatt recital series website
- ↑ Opera Today review
- ↑ C Major catalogue
External links
- Artur Ruciński and James Vaughan performing "Ya vas lyublyu" from Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades in a Rosenblatt Recital at St John's, Smith Square, London in January 2012