Baritone Artur Rucinski has been singing in Opera Houses in Eastern Europe for the past 6 years to great acclaim.  Of his 2002 debut at the National Theatre in Warsaw in the role of Eugene Onegin, Polish music journal Ruch Muzyczny reported: "Artur Rucinski's beautiful singing and lyric quality was the highlight of the evening's Eugene Onegin.  This young baritone's powerful, dramatic, voice made Oniegin come alive..." He repeats the role for his Berlin debut in 2010 at the Staatoper Unter den Linden under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, which will be followed by his Austrian debut at the Bregenz Festival in Weinberg's The Passenger. 

Mr. Rucinski’s subsequent roles in the National Opera in Warsaw have included Ping in Turandot, Prince Jeletzky in Pique Dame, Janusz in Moniuszko’s Halka, Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Seviglia, and Niklaus/Muse in Harry Kupfer's  production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann.  He opened the 2008-2009 season in Warsaw as Valentin in the new Robert Wilson Faust, followed by Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Yeletsky in Pique Dame at the Krakow Opera, Nicklausse, and in Haydn’s Creation and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Mr. Rucinski has been heard as Marcello in La Boheme in Warna, Bulgaria and at the Krakow Opera, was Ping in Turandot in Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo and the Paphos Aphrodite Festival in Cyprus with Eva Marton, in Carmina Burana  in Sofia, Riccardo in I Puritani in Lodz, Silvio in I Pagliacci in the Lvov National Opera, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte  at the Krakow Opera

While still a student, Mr. Rucinski made his debut at the Warsaw Chamber Opera in 2001 as Pappageno in Die Zauberflöte and has gone on to sing with that company as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Evgenij Oniegin, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and most recently Il Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.

As a concert artist Mr. Rucinski was heard with Polish Radio and Polish Television at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in the world premiere of W. Balakauska’s opera La Lontaine, in the Faure Requiem and Carmina Burana at the International Festival in Warna and for Bulgarian Television, as well as Handel’s Messiah and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in Paris and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with the Silesian Philharmonic.

Mr. Rucinski's recording credit's include Ford in Falstaff, A. Marko’s Messa (world premiere concert on DUX Label) and a CD of Polish and Italian songs entitled “The Best Polish Singers” also on DUX).  

Artur Ruciński is a graduate of Warsaw Academy of Music.  He was the 2002 winner of the Adam Didur Opera Competition in Bytom and is an award-winner of many international vocal competitions, including the 2003 Belvedere Competition (honorable mention), the Salomea Kruszelnicka Competition in Lviv, Ukraine (2003), and the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte Competition in Treviso, Italy (special prize 2005).

June 2009 - Please destroy any previously released version