Anna Lubańska

Studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music under Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa and while still a student appeared on Warsaw’s operatic stage. She is a prize-winner of the Ada Sari International Vocal Competition in Nowy Sącz (1st Prize and special award for the best performance of French song and works by Mozart and Lutosławski) as well as competitions in Paris (1994) and Brussels (Queen Elizabeth Competition, 1996). At the Polish National Opera her roles include Mercedes in Bizet’s Carmen, Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Jadwiga in Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor, Ma Ubu in Penderecki’s Ubu Rex, Princess Eboli in Verdi’s Don Carlos, Emilia in his Othello and Flora in his La Traviata. She also sings in Marta Ptaszyńska’s children’s opera Mister Marimba. She has also performed at the Warsaw Chamber Opera where she sung Marceline in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro, as well as the Śląsk Opera in Bytom. She has given many concert performances both at home and abroad (France, Germany, Monacco, Switzerland) and has sung with the philharmonic orchestras of Warsaw, Białystok, Katowice, Lublin. Opole and Szczecin and has made guest appearances at the ‘Wratislavia Cantans’ Festival. Her concert repertoire includes mezzo-soprano parts in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Pergolesi’s, Rossini’s, Szymanowski’s and Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater, Bach’s Magnificat, St. Matthew’s Passion, St. John’s Passion and Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah and Mozart and Verdi’s Requiems. She has recorded for Radio and Television.