Monika Buczkowska-Ward
Soprano
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Polish born soprano Monika Buczkowska-Ward made her debut in Germany at Oper Frankfurt in 2019/20, singing Lydie in a new production of Fauré's Pénélope, before joining the ensemble in 2020/21. This season she adds two roles to her repertoire: the title role in a new Handel's Alcina and Oksana in our wonderful production of Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve (performance of the Year 2022 - get the DVD!) and sings Madeleine / Madame de Latour in another amazing production: Adams's Le postillon de Lonjumeau, a role with which she enjoyed great sucess when the production first opened at the Tirol Festival in Erl a couple of years ago. Roles last season include a Priestess and Eudoxie in new productions of Aida and Halévy's La Juive, Lady Harriet Durham & Livia (the lead ladies) in Flotow's Martha and Cimarosa's L'italiana in Londra and 1st Lady in Die Zauberflöte. Other roles in recent seasons included Leonora and Helena in new productions of Nielsen's Masquerade and Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica and Nella in Gianni Schicchi - Puccini's Il trittico, Dorinda and a Maid in new productions of Die Zauberflöte, Orlando and Elektra and Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. She was a member of the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw's Young Talents Development Programme (Opera Academy) before coming to Frankfurt, where she sang Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and repeated her portrayal of Papagena in Barrie Kosky's Die Zauberflöte in 2020. She also took part in Prokofiev's Fiery Angel under Kazushi Ōno at the Teatr Wiekli - a co-production with the Festival d'Aix en Provence. Other recent engagements have included Freia and 3rd Norn in Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung in Erl, Eurydike (Orpheus in the Underworld) at Baltic Opera in Gedańsk, Fiordililgi at the Opéra National du Rhin and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Staatsoper in Hanover. Recent concert engagements have included Bruckner's Te deum in a Frankfurt Museumskonzert and the Brahms Requiem with the Deutsch Philharmonie Merck. She graduated from the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Music Academy in Posen and prizes have included 1st prize at Poland's Vocal Festival Maria Stankowa.