Born in 1985, Magnus Piontek is a highly sought-after opera and oratorio singer. His signature roles include the great Wagnerian roles as well as those of the romantic oratorio. In the 2022/23 season he is performing, among other roles, Colline (›La Bohème‹) at the Semperoper Dresden and as King Marke in ›Tristan und Isolde‹ with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. Next year he will debut as King Treff in Prokofiev’s ›Love for Three Oranges‹ in Bonn. In previous seasons, he has already given debuts at Oper Leipzig and Staatstheater Kassel to great critical acclaim. The Komische Oper Berlin’s tour of Asia in autumn 2019, where he appeared as Sarastro in ›Die Zauberflöte‹, was another highlight of this freelance singer’s career.
In addition to his operatic activities, Magnus Piontek devotes himself intensively to the oratorio repertoire and has been convincing in his interpretations of Verdi’s Requiem, Mendelssohn’s ›Paulus‹, Bach’s B-minor Mass, Martin’s ›In Terra Pax‹ and Haydn’s ›Schöpfung‹ among others. Guest appearances have taken this singer to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Mozart Festival in Würzburg, the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden and the Berlin Philharmonie. In radio and CD productions Piontek has sung, among other roles, the part of Hunding in Wagner’s ›Die Walküre‹ alongside Klaus-Florian Vogt and Catherine Foster. Magnus Piontek lives in Leipzig and also has a great interest in languages: He speaks German, English, Russian, Arabic, Italian, French and has started learning Korean.