On November 1, 2018 at 12:10 a.m. TVP Kultura invites you to the premiere episode of "Classic Stage", featuring the acclaimed bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny in the classical and modern repertoire.
Tomasz Konieczny – opera singer, film and theater actor – is currently one of the leading bass-baritons in the world. He has been singing in the Vienna Staatsoper for over ten years. In July 2018 he appeared as the first Pole at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, and in March 2019 he will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
The singer will appear on TVP Kultura in the company of pianist Lech Napierała. The musicians will perform Modest Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death composed in 1875-77 and Three Sonnets to Don Quixote by Romuald Twardowski from 1990.
Tomasz Konieczny is already known to TVP Kultura viewers, who have seen him before, among others in Krzysztof Penderecki's St. Luke Passion, performed at the 15th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. It will be rebroadcast on November 16, 2018 at 12:40 p.m..
