Hungarian bass-baritone Marcell Bakonyi’s most recent guest appearances include the role of Harašta (The Cunning Little Vixen, Theater an der Wien) and his debut at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Busoni’s Doktor Faust. He has also appeared as Wassermann (Rusalka, Theater St Gallen), Bluebeard (Bluebeard’s Castle, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos), and Lord Sidney (Il viaggio a Reims, Rossini Opera Festival), among others. In 2012 he made his debut in the United States as Sprecher in Die Zauberflöte at the Crested Butte Music Festival, Colorado.

Concert work includes Bach’s Christmas Oratorio with Collegium Iuvenum Stuttgart and Mozart’s Requiem at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Bakonyi has been a member of Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Salzburger Landestheater, Theater Heidelberg and the Zürich International Opera Studio. He sang in the world premiere of Matthias Heep’s Träumer as part of Junge Oper at the Staatsoper Stuttgart. Bakonyi studied at the Leó Weiner Conservatory of Music in Budapest, and the Hochschule für Musik in Stuttgart.

He won the International Competition Rolando Nicolosi, Rome, and received a Special Price at the Marcello Giordani Foundation International Vocal Competition, Catania.