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Leonora in Verdi’s La Forza del Destino at the Zurich
Opera:
“Joanna Kozlowska, with her warm and deeply resounding soprano
of wide timbre, was able to perform dramatic passages with ease. Despite the abundant vocal hurdles of this role, her beauty
of tone was never compromised, including in La vergine degli angeli and the pianissimo beginning of Pace, pace.”
-Das Opernglas
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The superb Polish soprano JOANNA KOZLOWSKA makes her Colorado
Symphony debut this season in "signature" piece: Gorecki's Third Symphony, which she recorded to high acclaim
with the Warsaw Philharmonic, and has sung with the San Francisco Symphony. In addition she makes an important
debut at the Atlanta Opera in the title role of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. She first gained international attention
by winning the top prize in the Benson and Hedges International Voice Competition in London, which was followed by winning
the International Vocal Competition in Rio de Janeiro. Her presence on European opera stages includes La Scala, Covent Garden,
the Vienna, Munich and Hamburg State Operas, Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colon, Venice’s La Fenice, Berlin’s Deutsche
Oper, Geneva’s Grand Theatre, Brussels’ Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, Florence’s Teatro Communale and the
Zurich Opera, where she is earned particular acclaim as Leonora in Verdi’s La forza del destino and Elisabetta
in Don Carlo. In the United States she earned spectacular acclaim for Mozart’s La finta giardiniera
at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Los Angeles Opera and as Alice
Ford in a concert version of Verdi’s Falstaff with the Minnesota Orchestra under Jeffrey Tate.
As a concert artist her repertoire includes the Strauss Four Last Songs,
Mozart Requiem, Poulenc Gloria and Britten War Requiem. Conductors with whom she has worked include
Sylvain Cambreling, Nello Santi, James Conlon, David Zinman, Lorin Maazel and Lawrence Foster.
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