INTRODUCTION

Polish soprano Anna Simińska is highly acclaimed and sought lyric coloratura soprano of great quality and sparkle suitable for many different demanding coloratura parts in various repertoire fields.
She excels also as the Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte she has performed around the world in major theaters including Opéra national de Paris, Vienna Staatsoper, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Hamburg Staatsoper, Komische Oper Berlin, Washington National Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Dresden Semperoper, Opéra de Montréal, and Oper Frankfurt.

RECENT AND FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS

In the 2022/2023 season, Anna Simińska reprised the role of Gilda/Rigoletto and performed in Carmina Burana with the Polish National Opera. She also took on the role of  Queen of the Night/Die Zauberflöte at Teatro Colon. In the 2023/2024 season, she made her San Francisco Opera debut as the Queen of the Night and performed the same role at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona. Additionally, she returned to the Polish National Opera for more performances of Carmina Burana.

Future performances include a Gala concert with Magdalena Kozena and the Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra.

BIOGRAPHY

Ms. Siminska was born in Lodz and studied at the Frédéric Chopin Music Academy, Warsaw, and at Graz University of the Arts. She made her international debut in 2007 as Adele in Die Fledermaus at the Schlosstheater in Schönbrunn, and is a former member of the Salzburg Festival Young Singers’ Project.

Her engagements in recent years include Woglinde in Götterdämmerung for the Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg festivals, Adele in Der Fledermaus for Vienna Staatsoper, Clorinda in La Cenerentola at the Glyndebourne Festival, the Dew Fairy in Hansel und Gretel at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Flaminia in Il mondo della luna at the Bruckner Festival in Linz, Amina in La sonnambula and Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi in Graz, Ilia in Idomeneo with Komische Oper Berlin, Gilda in Rigoletto in Limoges, Kazan, and Lithuania, the title role in Le Rossignol with the Polish National Opera, Sandrina in La finta giardiniera with Berlin Staatsoper and Theater Bonn, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos in concert with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Blumenmädchen in Parsifal with Paris Opera and the Bayreuth Festival.

Siminska’s concert appearances include Carmina Burana at the Wiener Musikverein, AIDS Gala at the Deutsche Oper in Dusseldorf, gala concerts in KKL Luzern, Alte Oper in Frankfurt and in Concert Hall in Baden Baden. She also took part in Life Reimagined gala in Royal Opera House Covent Garden next to Bryn Terfel and Sonya Yoncheva. Additionally, she was invited by Antonio Pappano to participate in the documentary Pappano’s Classical Voices produced by BBC next to Anna Netrebko, Joyce DiDonato, Jonas Kaufmann, and Diana Damrau.

OPERA    

                                                                                                                                                                       

Adams, J. Hamlet Ophelia
Nixon in China Madame Mao
Bellini, V. I Capuletti ei Montecchi Giulietta
I Puritani Elvira
La Sonnambula Amina
Berg, A. Lulu Lulu*
Berlioz, H. Benedict et Beatrice Hero
Bizet, J. Carmen Michaela*
Les pecheurs de perles Leila
Britten, B. Midsummer Night’s Dream Titania
Cherubini, L. Medee Dirce
Debussy, C. Pelleas et Mélisande Mélisande
Donizetti, G. Don Pasquale Norina
Fille du Regiment Marie
L’elisir d’amore Adina
Lucia di Lammermoor Lucia
Gounod, C. Faust Margerite
Handel, G.F. Alcina Morgana
Giulio Cesare Cleopatra
Humperdinck, E. Hansel und Gretel Gretel
Massenet, J. Cendrillon La Fee
Werther Sophie
Monteverdi, C. L’incoronazione di Poppea Poppea
Mozart, W.A. Idomeneo Ilia
Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Konstanze*
Cosi fan tutte Fiordirigi*
Despina
Die Zauberflöte Queen of the Night
Don Giovanni Donna Anna*
La finta giardiniera Sandrina
Nicolai, O. Die lustigen Weiber aus Windsor Anna Reich
Offenbach, J. Les Contes d’Hoffmann Stella*
Olympia*
Antonia*
Giulietta*
Poulenc, F. Dialogues des Carmelites Constance
Puccini, G. Gianni Schicchi Lauretta
La bohème Musetta
Rossini, G. Il turco in Italia Fiorilla
Il viaggio a Reims Contessa di Folleville
La cenerentola Clorinde
Le comte Ory Countess Adele
Otello Desdemona
Strauss, R. Arabella Zdenka
Fiakermilli
Ariadne auf Naxos Zerbinetta
Najade
Capriccio Italienische Saengerin
Elektra 5. Magd
Rosenkavalier Sophie
Stravinsky, I. Rake’s Progress Anne Trulove*
Le Rossignol Le Rossignol
Thomas, A. Hamlet Ophelia
Verdi, G. Falstaff Nanetta
Rigoletto Gilda
La traviata Violetta*
Wagner, R. Gotterdammerung Woglinde
Parsifal 1. Blumenmadchen
Rheingold Woglinde
Siegfried Waldvogel

*in preparation

 

CONCERT

 

Beethoven, L. v. 9. Symphony
Missa Solemnis
Brahms, J. Deutsches Requiem
Bruckner, A. Te Deum
Górecki, H. Symphony no. 3 (of sorrowful songs)
Handel, G.F. Messiah
Haydn, J. Die Jahreszeiten
Die Schöpfung
Mahler, G. 1st Symphony
2nd Symphony
8th Symphony
Mendelssohn, F. Elias
Mozart, W.A. Requiem
Coronation Messe
Mass in C minor “Great”
Vespreae solennes de confessore
Orff, C. Carmina Burana
Pergolesi, G.B. Stabat Mater
Szymanowski, K. Stabat Mater

AUDIO & VIDEO

Anna Simińska – Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart – Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen – Teatro Colón, 2023

Anna Simińska – Rigoletto by G. Verdi – Caro nome (Gilda’s Aria) – Teatr Wielki Warsaw, Mar. 2023

Anna Simińska – Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart – O zittre nicht mein lieber Sohn – Teatro Colón, 2023

Anna Simińska and Simone Piazzola – Rigoletto by G. Verdi – Parla, siam soli Tutte le feste al tempio – Teatr Wielki Warsaw, Mar. 2023

REVIEWS

The Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart at the Welsh National Opera (Feb. 2019)

“It had a tremendous Queen of the Night in the person of Anna Siminska, a Polish soprano who, according to her brief biography in the WNO programme first sang this role in 2015 at the Opera Bastille. She has gone on since then to sing the ‘Queen of the Night around the world, for companies including Vienna State Opera, Royal Opera House, Hamburg State Opera, Komischer Oper Berlin, Washington National Opera,  Berlin State Opera and Dresden Semperoper’. The list might be longer – she has also sung the role for Oper Frankfurt and Tokyo Opera (and doubtless for other companies I don’t know about). It was easy to understand why she has been in such demand, as she produced her high notes with impressive clarity and precision, while moulding her coloratura lines with considerable panache.”

– Glyn Pursglove, seenandheard-international.com

The Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart at the Welsh National Opera (Feb. 2019)

“Particular credit must be given to Anna Siminska as the Queen of the Night: this is a part of notoriously huge technical difficulty, which often makes it necessary to sacrifice expressiveness in favour of musical precision. Not so with Siminska, which delivers her part with deceptive ease while still preserving a vivid stage presence, making her scenes, particularly in the second act, some of the most memorable moments of this production.”

asiw.co.uk

The Magic Flute by W.A. Mozart at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden (2014/2015 Season)

“High and low vocal extremes are well served by Anna Siminska’s glamorously showy Queen of the Night.”

– The Guardian

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