Dorota Szczepanska

In 2021, Dorota Szczepańska made her debut at Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova, singing Erodiade Madre in Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista, after having sung the title role in Stradella’s La Circe at Festival Barocco Alessandro Stradella in Italy the previous year. In 2022, she goes on tour with Alon Sariel and Peter Schwebs – with a Lamento Project – including Lamento d’Arianna, Dido’s Lament, Lamento della Ninfa and Miranda’s Lament – a composition by Krzysztof A. Janczak, created especially for this ensemble, based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest.

In 2022, the Polish soprano made her debut at Baltic Sea Festival accompanied by L’arpeggiata under the baton of Christina Pluhar. In 2019, she performed, under Trevor Pinnock’s baton, Maria in Schubert’s Lazarus with Potsdamer Winteroper and sang the title role in Handel’s Semele in Hanover, conducted by Howard Arman, in 2018. Earlier, she performed Tamiri in Vinci’s Semiramide riconosciuta with the Royal Baroque Ensemble at the 2016 baroque opera festival Dramma per Musica in Warsaw, as well as Segimiro in Hasse’s Arminio with Orkiestra Historyczna in Prague, Vespetta in Telemann’s Pimpinone at the Polish Telemann Festival, and Palmide in Bayreuth’s Agenore at Schlosstheater Rheinsberg.

Dorota Szczepańska’ concert repertoire includes Fauré’s Requiem, Handel’s La Resurrezione, Haydn’s The Seasons, Janczak’s Amen and Ave Maria, Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, Coronation Mass and Requiem, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater and Vivaldi’s Gloria and Juditha Triumphans. In May 2023, she will sing Bach’s Magnificat with Filharmonia Norodowa in Warszawa.

Dorota Szczepańska has performed with orchestras such as Kammerakademie Potsdam, L’arpeggiata, London Symphony Orchestra, Polska Orkiestra Radiowa, Sinfonia Varsovia, Transatlantyk Symphony Orchestra und Tschechische Philharmonie Brünn under the baton of conductors such as Łukasz Borowicz, Ian Hobson, Szymon Morus, Christina Pluhar, Lee Reynolds, Wojciech Rodek, Michał Sławecki, Ewa Strusińska, Justus Thorau, Marco Vitale and Tadeusz Wicherek.

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