Biography
Polish bass Hubert Kowalczyk, acclaimed for his “powerful voice” (opernmagazin.de) and “solid, dark bass” (onlinemerker.com), is an ensemble member of the Staatsoper Hamburg. In recent seasons he has made house and role debuts as Nourabad/Les Pêcheurs de perles and Truffaldin/Ariadne auf Naxos at Opernhaus Zurich, Zuniga in Carmen at Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Bertrand de Billy, Fasolt/Das Rheingold at Theater Basel and Haly in Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri at the Bregenz Festival.In the 2026/27 season he will sing the roles of Tierbändiger and Athlet in a concert performance of Alban Berg’s Lulu with the Gürzenich Orchester under the baton of Sakari Oramo and Verdi’s Requiem with the Polish National Orchestra and Yoel Gamzou. At Staatsoper Hamburg, Hubert will make role debuts as Masetto/Don Giovanni, as Fauteuil and Chêne in a new production of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, as Il conte di Horn/Un ballo in Maschera and appear in the world premiere of Studio Liebermann, a tribute to the theatre’s former General Director, composer Rolf Liebermann. Next to these productions, he will reprise the roles of Colline/La bohème, Il Marchese d’Obigny/La traviata and Grossvater in Die große Stille, a pastiche based on works by Mozart, premiered last season.
Hubert’s other previous roles in Hamburg include Surin and Narumov/Pique Dame, Sarasto and 2. Geharnischter/Die Zauberflöte, Oroveso/Norma, Luther and Crespel/Les contes d’Hoffmann, Cuno and Eremit/Der Freischütz, Polizeioffizier/Boris Godunov, Pistola/Falstaff, Montano/Otello, Sparafucile and Il Conte di Ceprano/Rigoletto, Ferrando/Il trovatore, Pietro/Simone Boccanegra, 1. Soldat and 5. Jude/Salomé, Ein Hauptmann/Eugene Onegin, Dottore Grenvil/La traviata, Alcindoro/La bohème, Brabantischer Edler/Lohengrin Alter Diener/Elektra, Hausknecht and Sergeant/Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Markus in Samuel Penderbayne’s Unser kleines Scheisskaff – Fucking Åmål. He has collaborated with renowned stage directors such as Frank Castorf and Dmitri Tcherniakov.
In concert, he has sung Bartolo /Le nozze di Figaro with the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Collatinus/The Rape of Lucretia with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, conducted by Robin Ticciati.
Hubert Kowalczyk is a graduate from the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ in Berlin, where he studied with Prof. Martin Bruns and Prof. Dr. Michail Lanskoi. Whilst still a student, he joined the International Opera Studio at Staatsoper Hamburg, He is also a former member of the Opera Academy at Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw and studied at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali ‘Pietro Mascagni’ in Livorno. He has participated in masterclasses with Helmut Deutsch, Tomasz Konieczny, Mariusz Kwiecień, Sergej Leiferkus and Neil Shicoff.
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