German baritone Bernhard Hansky studied singing at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin with Hanno Müller-Brachmann and Kammersänger Roman Trekel, as well as in master classes with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Angelika Kirchschlager and Brigitte Fassbaender.

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He was a member of the opera studio at the Komische Oper Berlin from 2012 to 2014, after making his stage debut as Dandini in La Cenerentola at the National Theater Brno in 2010. He subsequently held permanent engagements at the Semperoper Dresden and the Hamburg State Opera.

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Guest appearances have taken him to the Berlin State Opera (Turandot), the Salzburg Easter Festival and Modena (Satyricon), the Grafenegg Festival (Der Freischütz), Tallinn, and Copenhagen, among others. In 2016, he performed Mozart's Don Giovanni on the stage of the Estates Theater in Prague, the venue of the world premiere.

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His most notable roles include Papageno (The Magic Flute), Ping (Turandot), Zurga (Les pêcheurs de perles), Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Count d'Almaviva (The Marriage of Figaro), and Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), which he first sang under the direction of Petr Popelka in Prague in October 2024. He regularly works with conductors such as Christian Thielemann, Zubin Mehta, Kent Nagano, Václav Luks, and Alessandro De Marchi.

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He is also a sought-after concert soloist in major oratorios from Bach to Mendelssohn, including at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Freiburg Konzerthaus, the Lille National Orchestra, the Kraków Philharmonic, and as bass soloist in the St. John Passion in Montreal under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki.

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Since 2019, Bernhard Hansky has been a vocal lecturer at the Oper Oder Spree Festival and successfully runs the opera podcast Parlando.

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