The young Polish Baritone Artur Rucinski has been singing in Opera Houses in Eastern Europe for the past years to great acclaim. His breath control, outstanding legato and the distinctive colour of his voice earned him the coveted "Paszport Polityki Award" of the weekly magazine "Pdityka" as Singer of the year 2008.
His repertoire centers around the bel canto, the Verdi as well as the Russian repertoire, including Yeletsky in "Pique Dame" and the title role in Eugen Onegin. Of his 2002 debut at the National Theatre in Warsaw in the role of Eugene Onegin, Polish Music Journal "Ruch Muzyczny" reported "Artur Rucinski's beautiful singing and lyric quality was the highlight of the evening's Eugen Onegin. This young baritone's powerful dramatic voice made Onegin come alive..."
He will repeat the role for his Berlin debut in 2010 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, which will be followed by his Austrian debut at the Bregenz Festival as Tadeusz in the rarely performed opera The Passenger by Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

Mr. Rucinski's features regularly at the National Opera in Warsaw where he sings Prince Yeletsky in Pique Dame, Janusz in Moniuszko's Halka, Sharpless in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Niklausse/Muse (Baritone version) in Harry Kupfer's production of Les Contes d'Hoffmann. He opened the 2008-2009 season in Warsaw as Valentin in the new Robert Wilson Faust, followed by Lord Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Yeletsky at the Krakow Opera under Valerij Gerghiev, the Priest Grandier in Devils from Loudun by K. Penderecki, and Ford in Falstaff at the Wrozlaw Opera. At the International Beethoven Festival 2009 in Warsaw, he sang Lescaut / Manon Lescaut, conducted by M. Gomez-Martinez. Upcoming in December 2009 is his debut in the role of Don Giovanni .in Krakow

Mr. Rucinski has been heard as Marcello in La Boheme in Warna, Bulgaria and at the Krakow Opera, was Ping in Turandot in Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo and the Paphos Aphrodite Festival in Cyprus with Eva Marton, in Carmina Burana in Sofia, Riccardo in I Puritani in Lodz, Silvio in I Pagliacci in the Lvov National Opera, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Krakow Opera
While still a student, Mr. Rucinski made his debut at the Warsaw Chamber Opera in 2001 as Papageno in Die Zauberflöte. Since then he appeared with that company as Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, Evgenij Oniegin, as Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia and most recently as Conte Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro.
As a concert artist Mr. Rucinski was heard with Polish Radio and Polish Television at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in the world premiere of W. Balakauska's opera La Lontaine, in the Fauré Requiem and Carmina Burana at the International Festival in Warna and for Bulgarian Television, as well as Handel's Messiah and Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in Paris and Haydn's Die Schöpfung with the Silesian Philharmonic. In September 2009 he will sing the War Requiem under Neville Marriner in Gdansk.
Mr. Rucinski's recordings include Ford in Falstaff, A. Marko's Messa (world premiere concert on DUX Label) and a CD of Polish and Italian songs entitled "The Best Polish Singers" also on DUX).
Artur Rucinski is a graduate of Warsaw Academy of Music. He was the 2002 winner of the Adam Didur Opera Competition in Bytom and is an award-winner of many international vocal competitions, including the 2003 Belvedere Competition (honorable mention), the Salomea Kruszelnicka Competition in Lviv, Ukraine (2003), and the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte Competition in Treviso, Italy (special prize 2005).