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Principal soloist of the Grand Theatre Na-tional
Opera in Warsaw, graduated with honours from Warsaw1s State Higher School
of Music and received the Kazimierz Czekotowski Prize. While still a
third-year student, she made her debut at Warsaw1s National Opera, with
which she has been associated ever since.
Her repertoire includes major soprano roles in operas by Handel, Mozart,
Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Gounod, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Wagner (Freia
in Das Rheingold), Richard Strauss (Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier), as well
as the parts of Roxana in Szymanowski1s King Roger and Eve in Penderecki1s
Paradise Lost.
She has also developed a fine career in oratorios and cantatas, as well as
the contemporary repertoire. She has given many recitals in Poland and
abroad and participated in major festivals such as the OWarsaw Autumn1 and
OWratislavia Cantans1. She has made numerous recordings for radio and
various labels. Her selection of operatic arias recorded for Polish Radio
was named the OBest Recording of the Year1 in 1990.
Izabella K1osiYska1s greatest successes include participation in the
concert performance of Les Troyens by Berlioz at the Concertgebouw in
Amsterdam and performances in the American productions of King Roger (Buffalo
and Detroit, 1992). She sang in Górecki1s Third Symphony at the Festival
in Maastricht (1993) and in the European premiere of Penderecki1s Seven
Gates of Jerusalem (Warsaw Philharmonic Hall, 1997). In 1999 she added
more works by Penderecki to her repertoire: Credo, Te Deum and Polish
Requiem. She received the award of the Minister of Culture an Art in the
same year. In recent years she scored spectacular successes as Elizabeth
de Valois and Desdemona in Verdi1s Don Carlos (2000) and Otello (2001),
both in the National Opera. In 2000 she received the Andrzej Hiolski Award
for the best role of the season: Cio-Cio-San in Puccini1s Madame Butterfly.
She sang in three gala concerts marking the centenary of the Warsaw
Philharmonic in 2001 (Beethoven1s Ninth Symphony, Szymanowski1s Third
Symphony and Wojciech Kilar1s Missa pro pace).
In 2003 she took part in the Japanese tour of the National Opera (Liu in
Puccini1s Turandot) and appeared in a New Year1s concert in Osaka with the
Johann Strauss Ensemble der Wiener Symphoniker.
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