Marcell Bakonyi

Biography

Bass Marcell Bakonyi makes his National Theatre debut as Creon in Cherubini‘s Medea (2025).

Originally from Győr, Hungary, he studied singing at the Budapest Conservatory and the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart, Germany. During his studies he performed in productions of Mozart‘s Le nozze di Figaro and Britten‘s A Midsummer Night's Dream. As part of the "Junge Oper" series at the Staatsoper Stuttgart he participated in the world premiere of Matthias Heep's opera Träumer. At the International Rossini Festival in Pesaro he sang the role of Lord Sidney in Rossini‘s Il viaggio a Reims. In 2007-2008 he was a member of the ensemble at Theater Heidelberg. In 2008-2009 he was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich, where he sang, among others, the role of the Steersman in Wagner‘s Tristan und Isolde. In 2009 he performed in Handel's Ezio at the Schwetzingen Festival. Since 2009 he has been a member of the ensemble of the Landestheater Salzburg, where he has performed the roles of Bartolo and Figaro in Mozart‘s Le nozze di Figaro, Caspar in Weber‘s Freischütz, Dulcamara in Donizetti‘s L’elisir d‘amore and Leporello in Mozart‘s Don Giovanni. In 2011 he made his debut as Pietro in Verdi‘s Simon Boccanegra at the Budapest State Opera. In the summer of 2012, he made his US debut as the Speaker in Mozart‘s Die Zauberflöte at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado. His other roles include Don Alfonso (Mozart: Così fan tutte), Il re di Scozia (Handel: Ariodante; both at the Salzburg Landestheater), Colline (Puccini: La bohème; Budapest, Oslo), Ferrando (Verdi: Il trovatore), Masetto (Mozart: Don Giovanni), Escamillo (Bizet: Carmen; all in Budapest), Water Goblin (Dvořák: Rusalka; Sankt Gallen), Ottone (Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea; Budapest), Mustafa (Rossini: L‘italiana in Algeri; Kaiserslautern) or Harašta (Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen; Theater an der Wien).