Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk graduated with distinction from the Vocal Faculty at the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław in the class of Danuta Paziuk-Zipser. She perfected her skills at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. The singer has won prizes at the Toulouse International Singing Competition, the International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw, and the Karol Szymanowski International Vocal Competition in Łódź, among others.
In 2007, she made her debut as Gilda in Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Wrocław Opera. As a soloist of this theatre (2008–2017), she appeared in many leading roles, including Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Pamina in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Hanna in Stanisław Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor.
The artist has performed during the KLANGVOKAL Musikfestival Dortmund, at the opera houses of Sassari, Jesi, Pisa, Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Pyotr Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. At the Opernhaus Zürich she performed as Fiakermilli in Richard Strauss’s 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 sang the soprano part in Gioacchino Rossini’s Stabat Mater, and in November 2023, she performed a recital of Mieczysław Weinberg songs with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg during the WOD-Weinberg festival.
Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk has worked with conductors such as Jordi Bernacer, Patrick Fournillier, Vasily Petrenko, Péter Eötvös, Elio Boncompagni, Julius 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 Mieczysław Weinberg with pianist Monika Kruk, Impressions for soprano and viola (DUX 2022), Leonardo Vinci’s opera Gismondo, re di Polonia (Parnassus Arts Productions 2020), European award-winning recording of George Frideric Handel’s opera Arminio (C Major, Unitel 2018), Musica Sacromontana – Józef Zeidler - Missa in D major (DUX 2018), or an album of music by Michal Bergson (DUX 2020), as well as Moniuszko’s Spectres (CD Accord 2018, the 2019 Fryderyk Award).
Since 2012, Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk has been working 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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