Karolina Makuła
mezzo-soprano
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Karolina Makuła, who was a member of our Opera Studio from 2019 - 2022, joins the Ensemble at Oper Frankfurt this season, during which you can hear her singing Adalgisa in Norma, Giovanna in Rigoletto and Marthe / Bellangère in a new production of Reimann's L'invisible. Last season she enjoyed success here with Amando and Marcolfa in new productions of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Wolfgang Fortner's rarely performed Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in his Garden. She enjoyed a triumph at the Tirol Festival in Erl, where she also sang Wellgunde and a Stable Girl in Götterdämmerung and Humperdinck's Königskinder, with Paolo in Mercadante's Francesca da Rimini and recently sang Hannah in Weinberg's The (female) Passenger at the Staatstheater in Mainz. She made her debut in Frankfurt with Desdemona in a new production of Rossini's Otello, which was followed by Countess Ceprano in Rigoletto, Enrichetta die Francia (I puritani), Francesca in the 2021 world premiere of Lucia Ronchetti's Inferno (and a film about the production in the Bockenheimer Depot which was shown at the Festival di Due Mondi in Spoleto), Mercédès (Carmen), Pippo (La gazza ladra), Kate Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly and 2nd Witch (Dido and Aeneas). She also sang Tisbe in La Cenerentola, a Spanish Woman in Schreker's The Elusive Sound (get the CD! Oehmsclassics) and the Bogus Boy in a new Weill's The Tsar has his Photograph Taken for the company in 2022/23, She made her professional debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz, where she graduated from the Nowowiejski Music Academy. She joined the Teatr Wielki's Akademia Operowa in Warsaw in 2017 and appeared at Polish National Opera in Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel, which was later performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. Her repertoire includes Olga (Eugene Onegin), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), 2nd Lady (Die Zauberflöte) and Fricka (Das Rheingold). She won prizes at competitions including the Drezdenko National Singing Competition, J. E. J. Reszke Competition in Czestochowa and singing and chamber music competition in Bydgoszcz.