Tomasz Kumięga

Tomasz Kumięga Graduated of the Frederic Chopin University in Warsaw was a member of the Wielki Theatre Opera Academy. He has performed numerous roles at the Polish National Opera including Guglielmo (Così fan tutte), Demetrius (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Marullo (Rigoletto) and the Nobleman from Brabant (Lohengrin). As part of the Aix Festival’s 2012 European Academy of Music – where he won the HSBC Prize – he played Baritone (Be with me know) and Prime Ministre (The Sleeping Thousand). He sang Guglielmo (Così fan tutte) at the Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville and the title role in Don Giovanni at the Warsaw Chamber Opera.

In October 2014, he joined the Paris Opera’s Atelier Lyrique (Academy)

He took part in the productions of Iphigénie en Tauride at the Palais Garnier (a Minister and a Scythian),Madame Butterfly (Yamadori), Rusalka (Hajny), Wozzeck (Zweiter Handwerksburch), Gianni Schicchi (Amantio di Nicolao) and Tristan et Isolde (Steuerman) at the Opéra Bastille. He has also played the Police Commissioner (Il Signor Bruschino) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, le Dancaïre (Carmen) in Warsaw, and Bello (La Fanciulla del West) at the Zürich Opera, the prime Minister (Adam Moor’s The Sleeping Thousand d’Adam Moor) at the Aix en Provence Festival and in Luxembourg, Monterone (Rigoletto) in Montpellier, Arthus (Joncière’s Lancelot) in Saint-Etienne, Streihniev (Khovantchina) at the Paris National Opera, Angelotti (Tosca) and Oros (Manru) in Nancy, Morales (Carmen) and  Ein Steuermann (Tristan und Isolde) at the Opéra National de Paris, Dziemba (Halka) in Teatro Real in Madrid, Hajny (Rusalka) in Massy, Arcad/Scyth/Minister (Ipfigenies) at the Aix Festival…

Among his futur projects, il Comte (Nozze di Figaro) in Warsaw and Krakow, Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) in Warsaw, Alfio/Tonio (Cavaleria rusticana / Pagliacci) à Montpellier…

Spoken languages: Polish, English and French

Photo credit: Studio Harcourt Paris 2025