Hungarian bass-baritone Marcell Bakonyi’s most recent and future engagements include HARASTA The Cunning Little Vixen Theater an der Wien, TRUFFALDINO Ariadne auf Naxos and COLLINE La Bohème Hungarian State Opera Budapest, DULCAMARA L’elisir d’amore Israeli Opera, SPRECHER Die Zauberflöte Saarpolygon Festival, FIGARO Le Nozze di Figaro Calgary Opera, BONZO Madama Butterfly Opera Festival Heidenheim, TIMUR Turandot Festival Granda, Lima and Der fliegende Holländer (title role) State Oper Varna.
Recent appearances include WASSERMANN Rusalka Theater St Gallen, BLUEBEARD Bluebeard’s Castle Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon, SS-MAN The Passenger Teatro Real de Madrid and DEPUTATO FIAMINGO Don Carlo Osterfestspiele Salzburg. Past roles in Budapest include MUSTAFA L’Italiana in Algeri, FERRANDO Il Trovatore, and ESCAMILLO Carmen. He sang SPRECHER Die Zauberflöte and DULCAMARA L’Elisir d’Amore Macerata Opera Festival, KASPAR Der Freischütz Stadttheater Gießen, PUBLIO La Clemenza di Tito, ANTINOO Il ritorno d’Ulisse Innsbruck Festival für Alte Musik, VARO in Handel’s Ezio Schwetzinger Festspiele, LORD SIDNEY Il Viaggio a Reims Rossini Festival Pesaro and ANTINOO Il ritorno d`Ulisse in Patria and COLLINE Oslo DNO. In 2012 he made his debut in the USA as SPRECHER Die Zauberflőte Crested Butte Music Festival Colorado. Concert work includes appearances with Collegium Iuvenum Stuttgart, Chiemsee Festival, Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra at Palace of Arts Budapest, and Théátre des Champs Elysées.
Marcell was a member of the ensemble of Staatstheater Nürnberg and Landestheater Salzburg with roles such as LEPORELLO Don Giovanni, ALIDORO La Cenerentola, and DON ALFONSO Cosi fan tutte. He was a member of the ensemble at Theater Heidelberg and of the Zürich Opera Studio. For the Junge Oper series at Staatsoper Stuttgart he sang in the world premiere of Matthias Heep’s Träumer.
Marcell was born in Győr, Hungary. He studied at the Leo-Weiner Conservatory of Music in Budapest, and at the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart with Julia Hamari.
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News | Marcell Bakonyi
News | Marcell Bakonyi
"Marcell Bakonyi as Leporello is not a servant but a loyal friend with playful, flexible and pointedly charismatic bass."
Salzburger Nachrichten
"Marcell Bakonyi is an ideal Mustafa, tall and slender, with a big bass voice that sounds melodious in all registers, the top range is beautiful and the low range full-bodied."
Theater Tip
"With his dark bass Marcell Bakonyi as Kaspar is a devilishly good singing actor."
Online Musik Magazin
"Eine warme, ruhige und sängerisch einnehmende Ausstrahlung hat Marcell Bakonyi als Wassermann, rund und sonor zwischen Natur- und Menschenwelt wechselnd."
St Galler Tagblatt