18th July to 18th August 2012

Agnieszka Rehlis

Hannah, Jew

Agnieszka Rehlis studied at the Lipinsky Academy of Music in Wroclaw and subsequently attended masterclasses with Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa, Adele Stolte, Christian Elsner and Gerhard Kahry. She made her stage debut in 1996, in Moniuszko’s The Haunted Manor at Wroclaw Opera, with which she was a soloist from 1996 to 2007, singing a wide range of roles including Fenena (Nabucco), Flora (La traviata), Meg Page (Falstaff), Magdalena (Rigoletto), Siebel (Gounod’s Faust), Cherubino (The Marriage of Figaro) and Dorabella (Così fan tutte). In opera she has also toured Germany, and appeared in the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Italy and Taiwan. Last season she was acclaimed in Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia with Polish National Opera. Agnieszka Rehlis is also active in the concert hall, with a repertoire of over 60 oratorios and cantatas, from Bach to Penderecki, including the Requiems of Mozart and Verdi, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis and Symphony No. 9, the Stabat maters of Rossini, Dvorák and Pergolesi and choral works by Bach, Haendel and Haydn. Among the festivals at which she has appeared are the Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, Chopin Festival, George Enescu International Festival, Festival Pablo Casals in Prades, and the Rheingau and Schleswig-Holstein festivals. Notable concert performances have included Mahler’s Second Symphony in Beijing and the world premiere of Penderecki’s Eighth Symphony in Luxembourg. Among her recordings are the world premiere of Paderewski’s Manru and DVDs of Penderecki’s Symphony No. 7 and Credo.