Dominik Köninger

Born in Heidelberg, the German baritone Dominik Köninger (1981) studied at the Opera School in Karlsruhe with Prof. Roland Hermann. He is a member of the Komische Oper Berlin ensemble, where current performances include the role of Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and in Giulio Cesare in Egitto.
He recently performed Carmina Burana with the Orchestra Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, and Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium with the Belgian Baroque Orchestra B’Rock at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Basilica di San Marco in Milan, Bozar in Brussels and deSingel in Antwerp. As a guest he appeared at Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspielen, Staatsoper Hamburg, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Volksoper Wien, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck and Theater an der Wien.
His wide opera and concert repertory which draws from baroque to contemporary compositions allowed him to work with such great conductors as Kent Nagano, Robert Carsen, Bertrand de Billy, Herbert Blomstedt, and artists as Brigitte Fassbaender. On the concert platform he appeared in Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Stuttgarter Liederhalle, Philharmonie Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Rudolfinum Prag and Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festivals.Together with the pianist Volker Krafft he was the winner of the 2011 Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.