Justyna Rapacz - NOSPR

Mezzo-soprano. From 2021 to 2023, she was a member of the Semperoper Dresden Young Ensemble, where her roles included Mercédès in Carmen, the Second Lady in The Magic Flute, Tisbe in La Cenerentola, a Wood Nymph in Rusalka and the Second Maid in Elektra. In 2023, she made her debut at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris as Tisbe in Damiano Michieletto’s production of La Cenerentola, and also returned to the Semperoper Dresden as a guest artist.

Last season, she joined Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini on a concert tour, performing Mozart’s Coronation Mass at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival in Wrocław, the Enescu Festival in Romania and in Belgium. She also made her debut at Wrocław Opera as Dulcinée in Don Quichotte, conducted by Patrick Fournillier and directed by Marek Weiss. Further engagements included Szymanowski’s Stabat Mater at the Szczecin Philharmonic and the role of Tisbe in Vincent Huguet’s production of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Baden-Baden Festival. She also portrayed Gaspara in Tomasz Prasqual’s new production Only Love Can Break Your Heart, in collaboration with Hashtag Ensemble and director Cezary Tomaszewski.

In 2021, Rapacz made her debut at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, appearing as Katharina Schratt in the ballet Mayerling. She has collaborated with the Warsaw Chamber Opera, where her roles have included the Sorceress in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. She also made her debut in the title role of Dido, accompanied by Capella Cracoviensis.

At the Polish Royal Opera, she has appeared in roles including Piacere in Handel’s Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. At the 24th and 25th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festivals, she performed the title role in Holst’s Sāvitri and the role of Moska in Cherubini’s Faniska, conducted by Łukasz Borowicz. Her collaborations with Capella Cracoviensis have included the title role in Handel’s oratorio Solomon and the role of Virtue in The Choice of Hercules in Bruges. She has appeared several times at the Opera Rara Festival, including in a performance of Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody staged by Krystian Lada. Her concert repertoire also includes the alto part in Bach’s Mass in B minor and Handel’s Messiah, the latter of which she has also performed with the Wrocław Baroque Orchestra under Andrzej Kosendiak.

In 2019, she made her debut at the Warsaw Philharmonic in Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël. She subsequently returned to perform, among other works, Mozart’s Requiem under the baton of Agnieszka Duczmal.

Justyna Rapacz studied at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where her roles included Olga in Eugene Onegin. She is also a graduate of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, where she appeared as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. 

She completed the Opera Academy’s Young Talent Development Programme at the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw.

She regularly performs with pianist Przemek Winnicki, with whom she forms a recital duo presenting a broad song repertoire encompassing Polish, English, German, French and Spanish works. Her discography includes Cherubini’s Faniska, songs by Moniuszko and albums featuring works by Hasse and Vivaldi.

She has worked with conductors including Jan Tomasz Adamus, Benjamin Bayl, Jonathan Darlington, Srba Dinić, Kilian Farrell, John Fiore, Ádám Fischer, Patrick Fournillier, Christoph Gedschold, Paul Goodwin, Thomas Hengelbrock, Marie Jacquot, Alessandro de Marchi and Evan Rogister, as well as directors including Damiano Michieletto, Josef E. Köpplinger, Nikolaus Habjan and Karl Burnett.