Soprano Izabela Matula was born in Poland. She graduated in voice and acting from the Kraków Academy of Music. She also studied music theory, composition and conducting. The last few seasons she made her debut as Tosca at Innsbruck and the British Grange Park Opera, a much acclaimed debut as Madama Butterly at the Bayerische Staatsoper under the baton of Daniel Oren, and Medea (Cherubini) at the Grand Opera – National Theatre of Warsaw.
She has participated in numerous vocal courses and masterclasses. After graduating, she continued her vocal training with Neil Semer (New York) and is honing her vocal skills under the tutelage of Dariusz Grabowski. She has taken part in many international singing competitions such as Deutsches Lied Wettbewerb-Sommerakademie Prague-Budapest – Wien (1st prize), Ada Sari International Vocal Competition (2nd prize), OperSchlossLaubach in Laubach (1st prize).
Her extensive stage repertoire includes leading soprano roles in Italian operas such as Aida, Il Trovatore (Mannheim, Linz), La forza del destino (Oper Frankfurt 2022, Warsaw 2023), Luisa Miller, Otello, Stiffelio, Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, Madama Butterfly (Mannheim), Suor Angelica, Tosca (Deutsche Oper am Rhein Düsseldorf and many others), Liu in Turandot and Mimi in Puccini’s La boheme (ABAO Bilbao), the title role of Catalani’s La Wally (Theater an der Wien 2021, also registered on DVD) as well as Mozart roles such as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. She also specialises in German and Slavic repertoire, including Wagner’s Lohengrin, Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa and Eugene Onegin (Linz), Janacek’s Katia Kabanova, Smetana’s Dalibor (Frankfurt) and Weinberger’s Švanda Dudak (Teatro Massimo Palermo). Her repertoire also includes parts in operas such as Paul Hindemith’s Cardillac, Henryk Jarecki’s Barbara Radziwiłłówna, Menotti’s Consul, Strauss’s Salome, Britten’s Peter Grimes and Offenbach’s Les Contes d'Hoffmann.
As a guest soloist, she has performed in many concert halls around the world, including the Simón Bolívar Concert Hall in Caracas, the Berliner Konzerthaus, the Doha Concert Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the Darmstadt Koncerthaus, the Musikverein Graz and the National Philharmonic in Warsaw.
