Baritone Artur Rucinski has been singing in Opera Houses in Eastern Europe for the past 7 years to great acclaim. He made his debut at the National Theatre in Warsaw in the role of Eugene Onegin, repeated the role for his Berlin debut in 2010 at the Staatoper Unter den Linden under the baton of Daniel Barenboim, and made his international debut in King Roger at the Liceu in Barcelona. Mr. Rucinski’s roles in Warsaw as have included Ping in Turandot, Yeletzky in Pique Dame, Janusz in Moniuszko’s Halka, Sharpless in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Seviglia, and Niklaus/Muse 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 Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor and Yeletsky in Pique Dame at the Krakow Opera, and in Haydn’s Creation and Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem with the Warsaw Philharmonic. Mr. Rucinski has been heard as Marcello in La Boheme in Warna, Bulgaria and Krakow, 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 Lvov Opera, and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte at the Krakow Opera. Artur Rucinski is a graduate of Warsaw Academy of Music and is an award-winner of the 2003 Belvedere Competition (honorable mention), the Salomea Kruszelnicka Competition in Lvov, and the Concorso Internazionale Toti Dal Monte Competition in Treviso.