Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk graduated with distinction from the vocal department at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in the vocal class of Danuta Paziuk-Zipser. She improved her skills at the Universität für Musik in Vienna. The singer has been awarded prize at the Toulouse International Singing Competition, and the grand prizes at the Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocal Competition in Warsaw, Solomiya Krushelnytska International Opera Singers’ Competition in Lviv and the Karol Szymanowski International Vocal Competition in Łódź.
She made her debut as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto on the stage of Wrocław Opera in 2007. As a soloist at this theatre (2008–2017), she appeared in many leading roles, including as: Violetta in Verdi’s La traviata, Susanna in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Hanna in Stanisław Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor. Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk’s international debut as Cunegunda in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide took place in the theatres of Ravenna, Livorno and Pisa. The artist has performed on the stages of the Klangvokal Musikfestival Dortmund, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Tokio Opera City Concert Hall, Tonhalle Zürich and Teatro Comunale in Sassari. She performed at the Opernhaus Zürich as Fiakermilli in Richard Strauss’ Arabella and in October 2023, she created the role of Vitella in the premiere performance of Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito in the new production of the Baltic Opera in Gdańsk. At the Berliner Philharmonie she performed the soprano part in Gioacchino Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and in November she performed at the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg during the WØD-Weinberg 2023 festival with a recital of Mieczysław Weinberg’s songs.
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk has worked with such conductors as Jordi Bernàcer, Patrick Fournillier, Vasily Petrenko, Péter Eötvös, Elio Boncompagni, John Axelrod, Christopher Moulds, Jacek Kaspszyk, Jesús López-Cobos, Andriy Yurkevych, Łukasz Borowicz, Tadeusz Strugała, Ewa Michnik, Pavel Klinichev, Marek Pijarowski, Michał Klauza, Sławomir Chrzanowski, Paweł Przytocki, Yaroslav Shemet.
The artist has many recordings to her credit, including: Weinberg (Un)Discovered Songs (DUX 2023) – a recording of recently discovered songs by Weinberg with pianist Monika Kruk, Impressions for soprano and viola (DUX 2022), Leonardo Vinci’s opera Gismondo, re di Polonia (Parnassus Arts Productions 2020), George Frideric Handel’s European award-winning Arminio (C MAJOR UNITEL 2018), Musica Sacromontana – Józef Zeidler – Missa in D major (DUX 2018), or a disc of music by Michał Bergson (DUX 2020), as well as the 2019 Fryderyk Award-winning Moniuszko’s Widma (Spectres; CD Accord 2018).
Since 2012, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk has worked as a singing teacher at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław. In September 2019, she received her postdoctoral degree.
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