Biography

Janusz Monarcha was born in Poland, studied at the University of Music in Wroclaw and won several singing competitions. He was first engaged at the Wroclaw Opera House. In 1986 he came to the Wiener Kammeroper, one year later Janusz Monarcha was already member of the ensemble of the Volksoper. Guest appearances led him to France, Monte Carlo, Hungary and the USA. Since 1991 he is member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper and has sung e.g. Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Oberpriester (Hérodiade), König (Aida), Pope (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Lord Valton (I puritani), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Albert (La Juive), Daland (Fliegende Holländer), Geronte (Manon Lescaut), Colas (Bastien und Bastienne), Colline, Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Kardinal Alfonso (Gesualdo), Oberpriester (Nabucco), Dorfrichter (Jen˚ufa), Bailli (Werther), Angelotti (Tosca), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Vanuzzi (Schweigsame Frau), Warlaam (Boris Godunow), Mönch (Don Carlo), Rocco (Fidelio), Pistola (Falstaff) and Pfarrer/Dachs (Schlaues Füchslein). http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Monarcha.en.php