Monika Buczkowska

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Monika Buczkowska
Born (1992-11-05) 5 November 1992 (age 30)
EducationPoznań Music Academy
OccupationOperatic soprano
Organizations Oper Frankfurt
Website monikabuczkowska.com

Monika Buczkowska (born 5 November 1992) [1] [2] is a Polish operatic soprano, based in Germany at the Oper Frankfurt. Her repertoire, ranging from Baroque opera to contemporary music, includes especially Mozart roles such as Susanna and Pamina.

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Career

Born in Środa Wielkopolska, [2] Buczkowska studied at the Music Academy  [ de; pl ] in Poznań with Barbara Mądra-Bednarek  [ pl ], graduating in 2016. In May 2016, she appeared at the Grand Theatre in Poznań in a student project, as Susanna in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro , conducted by Przemysław Neumann. [3]

She won first prize at the Polish Vocal Festival Maria Stankowa in Olsztyn and the Marta Eggerth & Jan Kiepura Prize of the Moniuszko Vocal Competition. [3] [4] She was a member of the Opera Academy of the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw, where she was coached by Eytan Pessen, Matthias Rexroth and Izabela Kłosińska  [ pl ]. [4]

She made her debut in Germany at the Oper Frankfurt in 2019, as Lydie in Fauré's Pénélope , and joined the ensemble the following season. [4] She performed there the soprano solo in a staged performance of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. [5] She appeared at the Tyrol Festival in Erl, Austria, as Freia in Wagner's Das Rheingold and as Madeleine in Adam's Le postillon de Lonjumeau . [4] Her Mozart roles include both Zerlina and Donna Anna in his Don Giovanni , and both Papagena and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte , Papagena in a production directed by Barrie Kosky. She appeared as Donna Anna first at a music festival in Nieborów, and performed as Eurydike in Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld with the Baltic State Opera in Gedańsk. She took part in a new production of Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw in a co-production with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, conducted by Kazushi Ōno. She performed the soprano solo in Penderecki's Credo in Nagoya. [4]

On 10 March 2022, she was the soprano soloist in the final of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in a charity concert at the Alte Oper of Frankfurt performers for Ukraine, with the hr-Sinfonieorchester conducted by Juraj Valčuha. [6]

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References

  1. "Monika Buczkowska". opera.poznan.pl. Retrieved 20 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Recital de Monika Buczkowska, soprano (Polonia) Fernando Pérez, piano (Argentina)". La Escena Vocal (in Spanish). July 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Monika Buczkowska / Sopran" (in Polish). Teatr Wielki. 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Monika Buczkowska / Soprano". Oper Frankfurt. 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  5. "Zölibat-Kritik mit Pergolesi – Geteiltes Echo an Oper Frankfurt". musik-heute.de (in German). 18 October 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
  6. "Benefizkonzert für die Ukraine" (in German). hr-Sinfonieorchester. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 14 March 2022.