Family is strength. Enthusiastic spring Camerata at Olivia Star!
When warmer days come, we look out the window in search of new impressions and emotions that will put us in a positive mood and show us a new face of the world. However, before it really turns green, you have to look forward to the sun’s rays and the opportunity to spend time outdoors in complete comfort. But when spring really shows its potential—lots of sunshine all over the city—we all transform with it.
By inviting you to a series of 4 concerts from the Olivia Camerata series, we would like to talk about this season’s music… transitions. Music can express unique emotions. In the first edition of the Camerata, we admired the Nowicki family. A diverse programme was presented by: Karolina Piątkowska-Nowicka (violin) and Piotr Nowicki (piano) with her daughter and Magdalena Witczak (soprano) with her son. The spring repertoire is m.in. intricately made works by F.Chopin – Wish, Spring, H.Wieniawski – Obertas op.19 No. 1; Kujawiak op.3 No. 2, Romance from the Second Violin Concerto in D minor , F. Kreisler’s Liebeslied, as well as daring performances by I. Kálman – Silva’s Csárdás , F. Lehar – When the Violin Plays, Who Kisses My Lips, F. Loewe: Dance the Whole No.
Yesin place of the concert – the Olivia Star hall, was filled with incredible energy and joy. The large audience of the concert enthusiastically reacted to the presented pieces and intricate performances of the program. The images and sounds from this unique musical meeting will remain in our memory for a long time!
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We cordially invite you to the next concert on June 9th! Today we can reveal that we will have a special guest! Magdalena Molendowska, a soprano who graduated from the Academy of Music in Gdańsk but has been conquering concert halls in Europe for several years, will come straight from London!
She graduated from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, obtaining the Gold Medal for the best graduate in the academic year 2012/2013, where she worked under the supervision of Rudolf Piernay. In addition, she also holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Gdańsk.She began her musical education in the singing class of prof. Dariusz Paradowski at the Academy of Music in Gdańsk. In 2008 she also graduated from the Opera Studio Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where she studied m.in. at Renata Scotto’s. She is currently under the vocal tutelage of Yvonne Kenny. The soloist’s rich repertoire includes songs, oratorios and cantatas, but her favourite genre is opera. She made her stage debut in 2006 as Atalanta in G. F. Händel’s Xerxes – a performance produced by the Gdańsk Chamber Opera, which was also presented at the Bergedorfer Musiktage and the Summer Chamber Music Festival in Hel. Since 2011 she has been a soloist of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, where she made her debut in Wolfgang Rihm’s Jakob Lenz , and in the 2012/2013 artistic season she sang the title role of Halka in Stanisław Moniuszko’s opera. She also collaborates with the Wrocław Opera, the Krakow Opera, the Glyndebourne Festival and the Clonter Opera, and for many years she was associated with the Gdańsk Chamber Opera.
The artist has performed many Mozart roles, such as. Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Countess (The Marriage of Figaro), Vitellia (The Clemency of Titus), Arminda (La Finta Giardiniera). Her repertoire also includes the parts of Micaëla (Bizet’s Carmen ), Mimi (Puccini’s La Bohème ), Tatiana (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin ), Kurfürstin (Der Vogelhändler by C. Zeller), Rosalinda (Strauss’s Die Fledermaus ) and Mother (Hansel and Gretel by E. Humperdinck). She also performs contemporary music – her achievements include a solo part in Vanity L. Syrus performed at the Glyndebourne Festival.
The artist’s immediate plans include her debut in the premiere performances of Halka at the Grand Theatre in Poznań and in Don Giovanni (Donna Elwira) at the Glyndebourne Festival.
https://opera.poznan.pl/Ca/magdalena-molendowska
