Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk Soprano Biography Biography PARNASSUS ARTS PRODUCTIONS Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk Soprano During the 2018/2019 season, Polish soprano tileges. At the Theater Bonn she debuted in the Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk will perform one of title role of Lakmé by Delibes. her favorite roles - Gilda from Rigoletto by G. Verdi at opera houses in Novara, Sassari, War- In 2015 she made her debut at the National saw (TWON), Poznan and Wiesbaden. She will Opera in Warsaw as Gilda in Rigoletto. At the also debut in Tokyo as well as at the Tonhalle Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe she per- in Zurich, where she will star as Mademoiselle formed during the International Händel Fes- Silberklang in Der Schauspieldirektor by Mozart. tival as Sigismondo in Arminio (2017) and as She will also perform the male role of Primis- Morgana in Alcina (2018). During the season lao in Vinci’s Gismondo, Re di Polonia at the The- 2016/2017 she performed as Konstanze in Die ater an der Wien, during the All‘Improviso fes- Entführung aus dem Serail by Mozart at the tival in Gliwice and at the Tschaikovsky Hall in Opera de Toulon (Coast of Azure), Gilda and Moscow. She will also act as Morgana in Alcina Amina (La Sonnambula by Bellini) at the Teatro during the Händel Festival in Karlsruhe. Verdi in Trieste. Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk studied at the Karol In the season 2017/2018, she appeared as Gil- Lipinski Academy of Music in Wrocław under da at the National Opera in Warsaw, Violetta Professor Danuta Paziuk-Zipser and at the Valery in the opera La Traviata by Verdi at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and in the tit- Vienna. The award-winning singer has been le role Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Verdi recognized on numerous occasions, and was in Trieste. She also debuted at the Concert- awarded with the First Prize at the Solomi- gebouw in Amsterdam in the title role of the ya Krushelnytska International Competition opera by Rimsky-Korskov The Golden cockerel. of Opera Singers in Lviv, Special Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Toulouse, As the soloist of the Wrocław Opera, she ap- First Prize and the Special Prize at the St. Mo- peared in an abundance of roles, including: niuszko International Vocal Competition in Violetta/ La Traviata, Lucia/Lucia di Lammermoor, Warsaw, as well as the First Prize and Special Gilda/Rigoletto, Susanna/Le nozze di Figaro, Pa- Prize at the Karol Szymanowski International mina/Die Zauberflöte, Sophie/Der Rosenkavalier, Vocal Competition in Łódz, amongst others. Nanetta/Falstaff, Adina/L’elisir d’amore. Furthermore, she also received the Special She has collaborated with conductors such Prize at the Toti dal Monte International Vo- as: Jordi Bernacer, Jesús López Cobos, Vassily cal Competition in Treviso, and the Audience Sinaisky, Peter Eötvös, John Axelrod, Stefan Prize at the International Vocal Competition Blunier, George Petrou, Christopher Moulds, in Malmö. She received the Jan Kiepura Award Jacek Kaspszyk, Łukasz Borowicz, Andriy Yur- for the Best Female Singer, the Wrocław Mu- kevych. sic Award and the Award of the President of She also performs in philharmonic orchestras Wrocław. and concert halls, including the National Phil- harmonic in Warsaw, Poznan Philharmonic, She made her professional operatic debut at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the the Wrocław Opera as Gilda in Rigoletto by Ver- Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Tonhalle in Zu- di. She made her international début as Cu- rich and the Tschaikovsky Hall in Moscow. In negonde in Candide by Berstein in theaters in 2020, she will make her debut at the Opera in Lucca, Ravenna, Livorno and Pisa. Her debut Zurich as Fiakermilli in Arabella by R.Strauss. at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Queen of Shemakha in The Golden Cockerel by Rimsky- Management Korsakov was followed by a return invitation to sing Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute Georg Lang by Mozart. She also performed in Moscow Feu, Barnabitengasse 5/4 Princesse, and Le Rossignol in L’enfant et les sor- 1060 Vienna, Austria T: +43(0) 1 8904151 -20 Coverphoto: Petra Nelle Film Creations E: [email protected] 2019_03_21, replaces all earlier versions.