Jeanette Bożałek

Studied chorus direction in Warsaw and vocal studies at Łódź Academy of Music under Delfina Ambroziak and attended courses given by Edith Mathis and Ryszard Karczykowski. Prize winner of the International Chamber Music Competition in Łódź. While still a student she sang in Mozart’s Apollo and Hyacinth and Rossini’s Stabat Mater at the ‘Wratislavia Cantans’ Festival. She made her operatic debut in Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel at the Łódź Grand Theatre. In 1993 she sung the part of one of the Flower Maidens in Wagner’s Parsifal at the Polish National Opera since when she performs regularly with the PNO. Her repertoire includes Frasquita in Bizet’s Carmen, Norina in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Zosia in Moniuszko’s Widma and Zuzia in his Verbum nobile, Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Blonde in his Abduction from the Seraglio, Olympia in Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann, Serpina in Pergolesi’s The Maid as Mistress, Oscar in Verdi’s Masked Ball and Tebaldo in his Don Carlos, Sophie in R. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier, Arabella in Penderecki’s The Black Mask and Yvette in Puccini’s La Rondine. She has also sung the part of Tzeitel in the musical Fiddler on the Roof and Valentine in Lehar’s operetta The Merry Widow. She has also performed at Warsaw’s ‘Roma’ Music Theatre in J. Strauss’s Der Zigeunerbaron and Die Fledermaus. She has a large repertoire of songs and oratorios and has performed on concert stages at home as well as in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and the United States.