Joanna Woś


Joanna Woś is a Polish operatic coloratura soprano who made an international career on stage and in concert.
WWW joannawos.com

Life and career

Woś graduated from the Academy of Music in Łódź. She made her debut on the stage of the Grand Theatre in Łódź with the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. She has a sonorous voice with a wide range, ranging to high F6. Nicknamed "Queen of Italian bel canto", she is laureate of major vocal competitions in Poland, such as a prize at the 1989 International Vocal Competition in Bilbao, and was awarded the Golden Mask music critics awards several times.
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 Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Parco della Musica in Rome, the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow, the National Opera in Vilnius, and the National Opera in Zagreb, and on other opera and concert stages in Europe, the US and Russia. In April 2010 she recorded for the BBC, Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 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.
She became an honorary citizen of Łódź in 2017.

Performances

Roles

The Magic Flute as The Queen of the NightLucia di Lammermoor Rigoletto as GildaMaria Stuarda La traviata Don Giovanni as Donna AnnaI puritani as ElviraDon Pasquale as NorinaThe Barber of Seville as RosinaLucrezia Borgia Anna Bolena Orfeo ed Euridice La rondine Così fan tutte as FiordiligiThe Tales of Hoffmann as OlympiaUn ballo in maschera as OscarThe Marriage of Figaro I Capuleti e i Montecchi as GiuliettaFalstaff as NannettaThe Golden Cockerel as Queen of ShemakhaLife with an Idiot as WifeThe Haunted Manor as HannaL'elisir d'amore as AdinaLa bohème as MusettaLa voix humaine as SheLa Bohème as MusettaA Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBoisMadame Butterfly

Concerts

Woś performed in concert works such as Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass, Fauré's Requiem, Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and Orff's Carmina Burana.

Discography

  • 2016: Opera Arias - Poniatowski CD
  • 2016: Joanna Woś śpiewa/sings CD
  • 2016: Hearkening to the universe CD