The German baritone Dominik Köninger has been a member of the Komische Oper Berlin since the 2012/13 season, where he has performed many great roles such as Orfeo, Count Almaviva, Papageno, Figaro and Pelléas.
Future guest appearances will, among others, take him to the Opéra de Montréal in Canada as Papageno. After extremely successful recitals, he has also been invited back to Wigmore Hall, the Hugo Wolf Academy in Stuttgart, and after recitals in Berlin and Wiesbaden. Kent Nagano has also invited Dominik Köninger back to the Elbphilharmonie immediately after concerts with Mozart’s C minor Mass, as have the Akademie für alte Musik and the Rias Chamber Choir after concerts in Brescia, Munich and Berlin.
Opera engagements have taken him to the Hamburg State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Stuttgart State Opera, Volksoper Vienna, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Bavarian State Opera and NNT Tokyo.
He has already performed at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Handel Festival Halle, the Bremer Glocke, the Schleswig-Holstein-Festival, the Rheingau-Musikfestival and in Israel.
He has worked with conductors like Bertrand De Billy, Christopher Hogwood, René Jacobs, Konrad Junghänel, Bernard Labadie, Antonello Manacorda, Kent Nagano, Helmut Rilling, Stefan Soltesz, Andreas Spering and Simone Young, as well as with directors like Pierre Audi, Robert Carsen, Barrie Kosky, Tobias Kratzer, Harry Kupfer, Philipp Stölzl and Robert Wilson.
First prizes at the Mozart Competition in Würzburg and the Wigmore Hall Song Competition are proof of his skills in lyrical roles and chamber music. Recitals have taken him to the Lille Opera, the BBC Young Artists, the Beethoven Festival and the Wigmore Hall, with renowned accompanists such as Daniel Heide, Eric Schneider and Graham Johnson.
Dominik Köninger studied at the Opera School in Karlsruhe with Prof. Roland Hermann and was a member of the International Opera Studio of Hamburg State Opera.
