Małgorzata Walewska

Dramatic mezzo-soprano Małgorzata Walewska studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music (under Professor Halina Słonicka). She is the prizewinner and finalist of a range of international singing competition, including the Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas, the Luciano Pavarotti in Philadelphia, the Stanisław Moniuszko in Warsaw, and the Belvedere in Vienna.

She made her debut in 1991 at the Polish National Opera singing Aza in Manru. In the course of her 30- year-long career, she has performed at over 30 opera houses, including Teatro Real Madrid, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Semperoper Dresden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, Teatro dell’Opera Rome, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera, and Herodion Theatre win Athens. Her extensive repertoire includes Azucena (Royal Opera House), The Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten (Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City), Delilah (Grand Théâtre de Genève), Kundry in Parsifal and Countess in The Queen of Spades (Opéra national du Rhin), Widow in Goplana (Polish National Opera, International Opera Award for Rediscovered Work), Mistress Quickly in Falstaff and Auntie in Peter Grimes (Oper Köln), Zofia in Człowiek z Manufaktury (Grand Theatre Łódź).

In 2015 she took over as the artistic director of the Ada Sari International Vocal Artistry Festival and Competition. In 2016 she received the Golden Gloria Artis Medal for Services to Polish Culture).