Paweł Konik’s upcoming engagements in the 2026/27 season include appearances in new productions of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier as Herr von Faninal, and Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk as Police Officer. He also comes back as Forester in Janáček’s Cunning Little Vixen, and Fritz Kothner in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. He will return to Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw as Capulet in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette.
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‍On the concert stage, his upcoming engagements include Orf’s Carmina Burana with Opéra de Saint-Étienne, Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Ballett Stuttgart and Staatsorchester Stuttgart, and Bach’s Johannes-Passion (Pilatus and arias) with Filharmonia Gorzowska.
He will also appear in the recital Polish Music Rediscovered at Staatsoper Stuttgart with Michael Pandya, and in the “Musik am 13” series with Jörg-Hannes Hahn. His recent debuts as Jochanaan in Strauss’s Salome, Amfortas in Wagner’s Parsifal, and the Traveller in Britten’s Death in Venice, Forester in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, and Fritz Kothner in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg were all met with great critical acclaim.
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Mr Konik’s further operatic repertoire includes such roles as Orest in Elektra, Harlekin in Ariadne auf Naxos, and Der Einäugige in Die Frau ohne Schatten by Strauss, Donner in Das Rheingold by Wagner, Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Sam in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte, the title roles in Don Giovanni and Le nozze di Figaro, and Andrey Shchelkalov in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, among others.

Previous seasons were filled with appearances at the Théâtre des Champs- Élysées, Baltic Opera Festival, Philharmonie Köln, Oper Köln, Croatian National Theatre Ivan Zajc in Rijeka, Opera Bałtycka in Gdańsk, Opera Wrocławska, Opera Śląska, Opera na Zamku in Szczecin, and Forum am Schloss in Ludwigsburg. Paweł Konik graduated from the Yale University School of Music Opera Program, where he worked with Doris Yarick-Cross and Richard Cross.He was a beneficiary of Akademia Operowa at Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera, where he worked under the tutelage of Eytan Pessen.

During his studies at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, he made his debut at the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk singing Shvochniev in Shostakovich/Meyer’s The Gamblers, for which he received the Jan Kiepura Music Award for Best Singer’s Debut in 2013.