Tomasz Konina

Born in 1972, theatre and opera director and stage designer. Graduate of the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw (1996) and the University of Economics in Wrocław (2013). In 2002 he was granted the scholarship of Vilar Young Artists Programme at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London. He made his début in 1998 at the Athenaeum Theatre (Teatr Ateneum) in Warsaw where he directed Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, which was acclaimed „one of the most interesting developments of this stage for a few years” („Rzeczpospolita” newspaper). His directorial opera début, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro at the Wrocław Opera (1998), was very highly praised by audiences and critics alike. In 1992-1998 he cooperated with the Department of Drama at the State Drama School (now the National Academy of Dra