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Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk

Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk is one of the most outstanding young Polish sopranos. She studied at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wroclaw under Professor Danuta Paziuk-Zipser and at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

She made her professional operatic debut as Gilda in "Rigoletto" at the Wroclaw Opera and her international debut as Cunegonde in "Candide" in Lucca, Ravenna, Livorno and Pisa. Her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Queen of Shemakha in "The Golden Cockerel" by Rimsky-Korsakow was followed immediately by a return invitation to sing Die Königin der Nacht in "Die Zauberflöte". At the Bolshoi Theatre she also performed Feu, Princesse, and Le Rossignol in "L’Enfant et les sortilèges". At the Theater Bonn she debuted in the title role of "Lakmé".

As a resident artist of the Wroclaw Opera she has sung Lucia di Lammermoor, Gilda in "Rigoletto", Adina in "L’elisir d’amore", Nannetta in "Falstaff", Oscar in "Un ballo in Maschera", Susanna in "Le nozze di Figaro", Pamina in "Die Zauberflöte", Hanna in "Straszny Dwor", and Olympia in "Les contes d’Hoffmann". Her operatic repertoire also includes Baronessa in "La vera costanza", Rosina in "Il barbiere di Siviglia", and Sofia in "Il Signor Bruschino". She also has been invited by Opera Baltycka in Gdansk, where she performed Die Königin der Nacht in "Die Zauberflöte" and Violetta in "La Traviata".

In March 2015 she made her debut at the National Opera in Warsaw as Gilda in "Rigoletto" and in April she returned as Hanna in "Straszny Dwor". During the season 2015/16 she performed: Gilda in "Rigoletto" in Warsaw and Wroclaw and Sophie in "Der Rosenkavalier", Pamina in "Die Zauberflöte", and Adina in "L'elisir d'amore" in Wroclaw.

During the 2016/17 season she sang Gilda in "Rigoletto" in Trieste (season opening), Sigismondo in "Arminio" in Karlsruhe, Konstanze in "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" at Opéra de Toulon, and Amina in "La sonnambula" in Trieste.

In 2017/18 she performed in "Rigoletto" (Gilda) in Poznan and Warsaw, "The golden Cockerel" at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, "Alcina" (Morgana) in Karlsruhe, "Lucia di Lammermoor" in Trieste, and "La Traviata" (Violetta) at Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

 

The 2018/19 season saw her performing in "Rigoletto" in Novara and Sassari, and later in Warsaw and Poznan, in "Carmina Burana" in Sassari, "Alcina" with Haendel Festspiele in Karlsruhe, "Gismondo, Re di Polonia" by Leonardo Vinci at Tchaikovsky Concert Hall Moscow, and "Rigoletto" at Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

In 2019/20 audiences could hear her in Handel's "Arminio" at George Enescu International Festival in Bucharest, in "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" in Warsaw as well as in "Arabella" (Fiakermilli) in Zurich. In 2021/22, performances of "La serva padrona" and "The Telephone" in Sassari and of "Arabella" in Zurich followed.

 

Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk has worked with conductors such as Vassily Sinaisky, Peter Eötvös, Elio Boncompagni, John Axelrod, Stefan Blunier, Christopher Moulds, Jacek Kaspszyk, Andriy Yurkevych, Łukasz Borowicz, Tomasz Kozłowski, Tadeusz Strugała, Ewa Michnik, Pavel Klinichev, Marek Pijarowski, Michal Klauza, Jan Miłosz Zarzycki, and Sławomir Chrzanowski.

She has an extensive repertoire of oratorio and concert works, Lieder and songs in several European languages and has performed in concerts and at festivals in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Italy.

She also successfully participated in many competitions: She won the Special Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Toulouse, the First Prize and the Award for the best coloratura soprano at the St. Moniuszko International Vocal Competition in Warsaw, the First Prize and Special Prize at the Karol Szymanowski International Vocal Competition in Lodz, and in the Halina Halska-Fijałkowska Polish Vocal Competition, the First Prize at the Solomiya Krushelnytska International Competition of Opera Singers in Lviv, the Special Prize at the Toti dal Monte International Vocal Competition in Treviso, and the Prize for the youngest finalist and the Audience Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Malmö.

concerts featuring Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk