Barbara Dobrzanska
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"... ein kostbarer lyrischer Sopran mit wunderbar aufblühender Höhe und einem silbrigen Timbre, das auch für die großen Strausspartien prädestiniert scheint. Mit perfekter Technik und expressiver Darstellung blieben wirklich keine Wünsche offen."
Das Opernglas
Barbara Dobrzanska was born in Krakow, Poland. She started her musical career in the orchestra of the opera in Krakow as violinist, but also studied singing at the Music Academy in Katowice and later in Stuttgart with Sylvia Geszty. After first engagements in Görlitz and Trier, she became a member of the Dortmund Opera in 2000. There, she was especially successful in the role of Louise in both of Charpentier’s operas Louise and Julien.
In 2002, she joined the opera in Karlsruhe, where she quickly became a favourite with both critics and the audience. Here, she developed a large repertoire of lyric and lirico-spinto roles such as the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut and most recently Tosca, Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Dvorak’s Rusalka, Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème, Liù in Turandot, Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Desdemona in Otello, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Amalia in I Masnadieri, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Maria in Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, Tatiana in Jevgenij Onegin, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Antonia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rosalinde in Strauß’s Die Fledermaus, Margherita and Elena in Boito’s Mefistofele, Roxane in Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac and Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier.
Other roles of her varied repertoire are Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Hanna Glawari in Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust and Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.
Apart from Barbara Dobrzanska’s engagement at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, she sang aria concerts with the Munich Symphonic Orchestra and appeared on the concert podium at Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Vienna Musikverein and in Rome in memory of the Pope in the soprano part of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem,
Guest performances on the opera stage include Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica at Graz Opera, Madama Butterfly at Budapest’s Philharmonic Hall as well as at Staatstheater Nürnberg, Manon Lescaut in Kassel and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Kaiserslautern. She also performed in Essen, Freiburg, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Regensburg, Warsaw, Krakow, Cagliari, at Liederhalle Stuttgart and at Festspielhaus Salzburg.
She worked with conductors such as Leopold Hager, Jacques Delacôte, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi and Hans Wallat and shared the stage with singers like Giuseppe Giacomini, Josè Cura, Giovanna Casolla, Johan Botha, Anja Silja, Hildegard Behrens, Martha Mödl, Denyce Graves and Franz Grundheber.
During the season 2010/2011, she added Ponchielli's La Gioconda in a new production in Karlsruhe to her repertoire and made her debut at Theater Bonn as Liù in Turandot.
In 2011/2012, she will give her role debuts as Janáček’s Kat'a Kabanová in Karlsruhe and as Bellini's Norma in Krefeld.
Barbara Dobrzanska’s CD recordings include Mahler’s 8th Symphony and an operatic aria CD on which she can be heard in excerpts of Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica.
November 2011
"... ein kostbarer lyrischer Sopran mit wunderbar aufblühender Höhe und einem silbrigen Timbre, das auch für die großen Strausspartien prädestiniert scheint. Mit perfekter Technik und expressiver Darstellung blieben wirklich keine Wünsche offen."
Das Opernglas
Barbara Dobrzanska was born in Krakow, Poland. She started her musical career in the orchestra of the opera in Krakow as violinist, but also studied singing at the Music Academy in Katowice and later in Stuttgart with Sylvia Geszty. After first engagements in Görlitz and Trier, she became a member of the Dortmund Opera in 2000. There, she was especially successful in the role of Louise in both of Charpentier’s operas Louise and Julien.
In 2002, she joined the opera in Karlsruhe, where she quickly became a favourite with both critics and the audience. Here, she developed a large repertoire of lyric and lirico-spinto roles such as the title roles in Puccini’s Suor Angelica, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut and most recently Tosca, Verdi’s Luisa Miller and Dvorak’s Rusalka, Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème, Liù in Turandot, Alice Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff, Desdemona in Otello, Elisabetta in Don Carlo, Amalia in I Masnadieri, Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Maria in Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, Tatiana in Jevgenij Onegin, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Antonia in Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, Rosalinde in Strauß’s Die Fledermaus, Margherita and Elena in Boito’s Mefistofele, Roxane in Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac and Maddalena in Giordano’s Andrea Chénier.
Other roles of her varied repertoire are Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, Hanna Glawari in Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe, Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust and Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci.
Apart from Barbara Dobrzanska’s engagement at Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, she sang aria concerts with the Munich Symphonic Orchestra and appeared on the concert podium at Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm, Vienna Musikverein and in Rome in memory of the Pope in the soprano part of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem,
Guest performances on the opera stage include Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica at Graz Opera, Madama Butterfly at Budapest’s Philharmonic Hall as well as at Staatstheater Nürnberg, Manon Lescaut in Kassel and Donna Anna in Don Giovanni in Kaiserslautern. She also performed in Essen, Freiburg, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Regensburg, Warsaw, Krakow, Cagliari, at Liederhalle Stuttgart and at Festspielhaus Salzburg.
She worked with conductors such as Leopold Hager, Jacques Delacôte, Carlo Montanaro, Pier Giorgio Morandi and Hans Wallat and shared the stage with singers like Giuseppe Giacomini, Josè Cura, Giovanna Casolla, Johan Botha, Anja Silja, Hildegard Behrens, Martha Mödl, Denyce Graves and Franz Grundheber.
During the season 2010/2011, she added Ponchielli's La Gioconda in a new production in Karlsruhe to her repertoire and made her debut at Theater Bonn as Liù in Turandot.
In 2011/2012, she will give her role debuts as Janáček’s Kat'a Kabanová in Karlsruhe and as Bellini's Norma in Krefeld.
Barbara Dobrzanska’s CD recordings include Mahler’s 8th Symphony and an operatic aria CD on which she can be heard in excerpts of Madama Butterfly and Suor Angelica.
November 2011
