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date = "2019-03-03T17:52:23+00:00"
discipline = "Soprano"
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slug = "izabela-matula"
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title = "Izabela Matuła"
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Izabela Matula studied at the Academy of Music in Kraków and became a prizewinner at several competitions. She presented Poland at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition in 2009. Her first operatic roles were **Gabrielle**in Penderecki’s _The Devils of Loudun_, **Marguerite** in Gounod’s _Faust_ and **Micaela**in _Carmen_ with Kraków Opera during 2008-2010. She appeared as **Desdemona**in _Otello_ with Wrocaw Opera and as **Maria** in Statkowski’s _Maria_ with the Baltic Opera in Gdansk. Her German debut took place as **Liù** in _Turandot_ with Saarländisches Staatstheater in 2010.

Izabela Matula was an ensemble member at Theater Krefeld Mönchengladbach 2012-2018 building up a considerable repertoire with roles such as **Mimì** in _La Bohème_, the title role of **Suor Angelica**, **Contessa** in _Le Nozze di Figaro_, **Donna Elvira** in _Don Giovanni_, **Lina** in _Stiffelio_, **Amelia** in _Un Ballo in Maschera_, **Antonia** in_Les Contes d'Hoffmann_, **Elsa** in _Lohengrin_, **Maria** in Tchaikovsky’s _Mazeppa_, **Rosalinde** in _Die Fledermaus_, **Ellen Orford** in _Peter Grimes_, **Magda Sorel** in Menotti’s _Consul_ and the title role of **Katia Kabanova**.

Her guest appearances have led her to Bergen as **Lauretta** in _Gianni Schicchi_, to Bilbao as **Mimi**, to Detmold as **Suor Angelica**, to Darmstadt as **Marguerite** in _La Damnation_ _de Faust_, to Bonn as **Donna Elvira,** to Magdeburg as **Foreign Princess**in _Rusalka_, to Palermo as **Dorotka** in Weinberger’s _Švanda the Bagpiper_ and most recently to Linz as **Tatjana** in _Eugen Onegin_. She has a close affinity with the title role of **Tosca**, which she has performed in Darmstadt, Magdeburg and Bonn and Düsseldorf-Duisburg. Future plans include **Milada** in Smetana’s _Dalibor_ in Frankfurt, the title role of **Luisa Miller** in Wuppertal and the title role of **Madama Butterfly** in Mannheim.

Izabela Matu?a has a large concert repertoire including Verdi’s _Requiem_, Górecki’s _Symphony No.2_, Mozart’s _Requiem_ and _Coronation Mass_, Beethoven’s _9th Symphony_ and _Missa Solemnis_, Mendelssohn’s _Elijah._ She has performed works of Krzysztof Penderecki under his baton, including _Seven Gates ofJerusalem_ (CD recording), _Credo, Symphony No. 8, Kaddish, Polish Requiem_ and _Powiao na mnie morze snow_, a song cycle, recorded on CD, which she also performed at the Stars of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg 2011, conducted by Valery Gergiev. She has also recorded songs of Szymanowski and Chopin as well as the title role of Weber’s **Euryanthe**.