Karolina Makuła
mezzo-soprano
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Karolina Makuła was a member of Oper Frankfurt's Opera Studio from 2019 - 2022, making her debut for the company as 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), Countess Ceprano (Rigoletto), Pippo (La gazza ladra), Kate Pinkerton in a new Madame Butterflyand 2nd Witch (Dido and Aeneas). She sang Tisbe in La Cenerentola, a Spanish Woman in our wonderful Schreker's The Elusive Sound and Bogus Boy in a new Weill's The Tsar wants his Photograph Taken for the company in 2022/23 and can be heard again this season singing 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 - all new productions - and recently sang Hannah in Weinberg's The (female) Passenger at the Staatstheater in Mainz. 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 Feuriger Engel The Fiery Angel, which was later performed at the Aix-en-Provence Festival.Her repertoire includes the roles of 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. She took part in a masterclass held by Antonio Pappano as part of the Britten Pears Young Artists Programme in Aldeburgh in 2019 and reached the finals of the 2021 Anny Schlemm Competition.