In 2019, Agata Kornaga made her debut at Theater Aachen as Wellgunde in Wagner’s shortened trilogy called Hagen and returned for several parts in the world premiere of Schreier’s Der Zauberer von Oz. In 2019, the mezzo-soprano has sung Dryade in Strauss‘ Ariadne auf Naxos at Hanover’s University and returned to Kraków Opera singing Clotilde in Bellini’s Norma and to Teatr Wielki w Poznaniu as Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte during the 2019/2020 season. She will sing the Third Lady in a gala performance in Poznan in September 2020.
In 2017, Agata Kornaga has sung in Bellini’s Norma at Kraków Opera. In 2018, she returned to Teatr Wielki w Poznaniu as Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte and Fjodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. In 2016, Agata Kornaga performed Spirit in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at Teatr Wielki w Poznaniu and in Moniuszko’s The Haunted Minor at Kraków Opera. Later that year, she made her German debut at Oper Starnberg (Munich) singing Amor in Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice.
During the 2016/2017 season, Agata Kornaga returned to Teatr Wielki w Poznaniu to sing Fjodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov and Third Lady in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte. In 2015, the mezzo-soprano performed Apollo in Mozart’s Apollo et Hyacintus in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and Olga in Tchaikovsky’s Eugen Onegin. In 2017, she made her debut as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.
Concert soloist Agata Kornaga has sung Bononcini’s as well as d‘Astorga’s Stabat Mater in Wrocław in 2013 with Ensemble of Early Music under the baton of Andrzej Kosendiak and performed Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle in Bydgoszcz in 2014. In 2019, she was soloist at the Mieczysław Weinberg-Festival in Munich.
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Three questions to Agata Kornaga:
A composer: Romantic and 19th century composers.
What was your calling to become a singer? I was lucky to meet great professors on my way. They gave me not only the singing technique, but also a passion and love for singing. My vocation now is to share the emotions and beauty of music.
To be a singer – in three words: self-improvement / emotions / strength
Bizet: Carmen
Carmen: Pres des remparts de Seville …
Donizetti: La Favorita
Leonore: Fia dunque vero …
Massenet: Werther
Charlotte: Va! Laisse couler mes larmes …