Stefan Sbonnik is an internationally active opera and concert singer.
After studying at the universities of Osnabrück and Münster and the August Everding Theater Akademie in Munich, he was a member of the opera studio of the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg and was invited for the Mozart Residency at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 2015, he received a Richard Wagner scholarship.
Stefan has performed in Germany at the opera houses in Heidelberg, Münster, Aachen, and the Landestheater Niederbayern in Passau, and internationally at the opera houses in Albi, Vichy, Rennes and Metz, as well as at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, the Opéra national de Bordeaux, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Theater an der Wien and La Scala in Milan.
Stefan Sbonnik regularely works with conductors such as Francesco Corti, George Petrou, Dorothee Oberlinger, Ruben Jais, Martyna Pastuszka, Werner Ehrhardt, Christina Pluhar and stage directors likeJens Daniel Herzog, Max Emanuel Cencic, Felix Schrödinger, among others.
Concerts have taken him to the Tonhalle Zurich, the Paris Philharmonie, the Dortmund Concert Hall, the National Philharmonie in Warsaw, the Auditorium and Cathedral in Milano and in the 2025/26 season to the Cologne Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. In addition to Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël in Salzburg, a personal highlight of his concert career was the performance of Britten’s War Requiem in Exeter Cathedral, England. Further appearances have included the Kasseler Musiktage, the Tage alter Musik Herne and various other festivals in Germany and abroad.
His repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary music. His most important sung roles include Tamino in The Magic Flute and the title role in Mozart’s Mitridate, Oronte and Tempo in Handel’s Alcina and Il trionfo del tempo and Danilo in Lehar’s The Merry Widow. In the concert field, Bach’s Evangelist roles and Mendelssohn’s oratorios are among his core repertoire.
Stefan has appeared and been heard numerous times, including live broadcasts, on radio (BR, WDR, MDR, Deutschlandfunk Kultur) and television (ARTE). He made his second guest appearance with the Munich Radio Orchestra for a CD recording of Verdi’s Attila.
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