Lyric-coloratura soprano.
\nIwona Handzlik graduated from Pa\u0144stwowa Szko\u0142a Muzyczna im. Stanis\u0142awa Moniuszki in Bielsko-Bia\u0142a in piano in 1999. She continued at the Music Academy in Katowice, in solo singing. In 2004, she further perfected her vocal skills as a Socrates-Erasmus grant holder in L\u00fcbeck (Germany). As early as in her third year of study, she started cooperating with Teatr Muzyczny in Lublin, where she played Hanna in Stanis\u0142aw Moniuszko\u2019s The Haunted Manor.<\/p>\n
In 2006-2011, she was soloist of the Wroc\u0142aw Opera, singing Musetta in G. Puccini\u2019s La Boh\u00e8me, Gilda in G. Verdi\u2019s Rigoletto, Adele in J. Strauss\u2019s The Bat, Adina in G. Donizetti\u2019s The Elixir of Love, Olympia in J. Offenbach\u2019s The Tales of Hoffmann, a Flowermaiden in R. Wagner\u2019s Parsifal, Nannetta in G. Verdi\u2019s Falstaff, Papagena in W.A. Mozart\u2019s The Magic Flute and Oscar in G. Verdi\u2019s A Masked Ball.
\nIn 2006, she debuted at The Grand Theatre \u2013 National Opera, impersonating Adele during the New Year\u2019s Eve concert. Also there, during the 2016\/2017 season, she played Papagena in W.A. Mozart\u2019s The Magic Flute in the famous staging of the Berlin Komische Oper directed by Barrie Kosky. The same year, she made her stage debut at the Opera na Zamku in Szczecin, singing Oscar from A Masked Ball, and in the following season, Zerlina in Don Giovanni at the Wroc\u0142aw Opera. She had also cooperated with The Cracow Opera, the Silesian Opera in Bytom, Zabrze Philharmonic and Sudety Philharmonic in Wa\u0142brzych. She has given concerts in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Canada, Thailand, Australia and Italy.
\nDuring the 2018\/2019 season, she impersonated Hanna in three premiere performances of the Haunted Manor produced by the Polish Royal Opera, and played Despina in Mozart\u2019s Cosi fan tutte, and in the following season, she debuted as Rosina in the The Barber of Seville.<\/p>\n
Soloist of the Polish Royal Opera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17099,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-17136","artysci","type-artysci","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n