Izabela Matuła
Graduated with distinction from the Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow (2009) and represented Poland at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2009. Her first operatic roles were Gabrielle in Penderecki’s The Devils of Loudun, Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust and Micaёla in Carmen with the Krakow Opera. From 2012 to 2018, Izabela Matula was engaged at Theater Krefeld and Mönchengladbach, performing roles such as Ellen Orford in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, Amelia in Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera and the title parts in Giacomo Puccini Suor Angelica and Leoš Janáček Káťa Kabanova. Her repertoire includes roles such as Contessa Almaviva (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro), Amelia (Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera), Mimì (Puccini’s La bohème), main roles in Puccini's Tosca, Antonia (Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d'Hoffmann), Elsa (Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin), Leonora (Verdi’s Il trovatore), Die Tochter (Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac), Madame Butterfly (Puccini’s), Wally (Alfred Catalani’s La Wally). Guest appearances have taken Izabela Matula to Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw (as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello, Leonora in Verdi’s La forza del destino and as Halka in Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera), to Bergen (as Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi), to Bilbao (as Mimì) and to Palermo (as Dorotka in Jaromír Weinberger’s Švanda dudák), as well to the Nationaltheater Mannheim, Theater an der Wien, Landestheater Linz, Theater Dortmund, Oper Frankfurt and opera houses in Nuremberg, Braunschweig, Darmstadt and Düsseldorf.
She is also internationally successful as a concert singer whose numerous recordings attest to her wide-ranging output. Her repertoire ranges from Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven to Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich and especially the works of Krzysztof Penderecki.
[2023]