Joanna Wos
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| Born | Kielce, Polish People's Republic |
| Alma mater | Academy of Music in Łódź |
| Occupation | Operatic soprano |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Website | www |
Joanna Woś is a Polish operatic coloratura soprano.
Joanna Woś has a sonorous intonation voice with a very wide range (ranging freely high F6). She has been nicknamed "Queen of italian bel canto" by critics and audience. Graduate of the Academy of Music in Łódź. Laureate of major vocal competitions in Poland, winner of 1st prize in the International Vocal Competition in Bilbao. Multiple laureated of the Golden Masks (music critics awards).She made her debut on the stage of the Grand Theatre in Łódź with the title part to Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Joanna Woś has performed with the Polish National Opera, the Cracow Opera, the Grand Theatre in Poznań, the National Philharmonic and the Cracow Philharmonic. She has appeared in guest performances at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Auditorium in Rome, the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow, the National Opera in Vilnius, the National Opera in Zagreb, the Royal Festival Hall with London Symphony Orchestra and on other opera and concert stages in Europe, U.S. and Russia. In April 2010 she recorded for the BBC, Symphony No. 3 by Henryk M. Gorecki with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop at the Royal Festival Hall in London. In 2013 the Grand Theatre in Lodz staged especially for her Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena”.
Performances[edit]
- The Magic Flute as The Queen of the Night
- Lucia di Lammermoor as Lucia
- Rigoletto as Gilda
- Maria Stuarda as Maria Stuarda
- La traviata as Violetta
- Don Giovanni as Donna Anna
- I puritani as Elvira
- Don Pasquale as Norina
- The Barber of Seville as Rosina
- Lucrezia Borgia as Lucrezia Borgia
- Anna Bolena as Anna Bolena
- Orfeo ed Euridice as Euridice
- La rondine as Magda
- Così fan tutte as Fiordiligi
- The Tales of Hoffmann as Olympia
- Un ballo in maschera as Oscar
- The Marriage of Figaro as Rosina
- I Capuleti e i Montecchi as Giulietta
- Falstaff as Nannetta
- The Golden Cockerel as Queen of Shemakha
- Life with an Idiot as Wife
- The Haunted Manor as Hanna
- L'elisir d'amore as Adina
- La bohème as Musetta
- La voix humaine as She
- La Bohème as Musetta
- A Streetcar Named Desire (opera)A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois
- Madame Butterfly (opera) as Madame Butterfly (Cio-cio-san)
- Norma (opera) as Norma
Concerts[edit]
Stabat Mater - (K. Szymanowski; G.Rossini; G. Pergolesi), Messe Solennelle - Ch.Gounod, Requiem - (G. Fauré; G. Rossini), Exultate Jubilate - W.Mozart, Carmina Burana - C.Orff.
Discography[edit]
- 2016: Opera Arias - Poniatowski CD
- 2016: Joanna Woś śpiewa/sings CD
- 2016: Hearkening to the universe CD
References[edit]
- Marczyński, Jacek (April 2010). "Joanna Woś". Culture.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 6 January 2019.
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