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She graduated with honors from the Vocal and Acting Department of the Academy of Music in Łódź. She was a laureate of numerous vocal competitions, including the European Festival of Opera named after Jan Kiepura (scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and Art), the International Opera Singing Competition named after Adam Didur (3rd prize and 6 special awards, including the best performance of an Italian aria – Desdemona's aria), the Ada Sari Vocal Art Festival (4th prize), and the Chamber Music Competition (2nd prize).

 

She completed master classes led by Teresa Żylis-Gara. From the beginning of her artistic career, she has been associated with the Grand Theatre in Łódź, where she created her most significant vocal-acting roles, highly praised by critics and the audience.

 

Even as a student, she debuted on our Theatre's stage with the role of Micaëla in Carmen by Bizet. She later performed this role in several productions of the opera in Poland and abroad (Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, South America), receiving very favorable reviews. On the Łódź stage, she created outstanding soprano roles: Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème, Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute, Adina in Donizetti's The Elixir of Love (the performance received the Golden Mask – the journalists' award for the event of the season; she toured with this production in the Netherlands and Germany), Countess in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale, Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, and Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. She also appeared as Elvira in Bellini's I Puritani, as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, and in the title role in Verdi's La Traviata (touring in the Benelux countries). Further premieres included Lucretia in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide, Antonia in Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann (for this role, she was awarded the Golden Mask by journalists for the best vocal-acting performance in the 2007/2008 season), Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin directed by Wiesław Ochman, and the title role in Dvořák's Rusalka directed by Tomasz Cyz. In her repertoire, she has over 20 opera roles, as well as musical and operetta parts.

 

She also performs most of the lyrical parts from Moniuszko's operas: Zuzia in Verbum Nobile, Hanna in The Haunted Manor, Zofia in Halka, Bronia, and Ewa in The Countess. The artist also recorded Andrzej Krauze's Ave Maria vocalization for a documentary film dedicated to Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński. She successfully performs song (radio recordings) and oratorio repertoire: Dvořák's Requiem, Mozart's and Verdi's Requiems, Handel's The Creation, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis and Mass in C major, Rossini's Stabat Mater, Donizetti's Messa di Gloria e Credo, Orff's Carmina Burana, Rotter's Magnificat, Weber's Requiem in concert halls throughout Poland.

 

She collaborates with many outstanding conductors, such as A. Wicherek, K. Kord, W. Michniewski, T. Kozłowski, T. Wojciechowski, A. Straszyński, Ł. Borowicz, J. Bergman, E. Michnik, and directors: M. Prus, W. Zawodziński, E. Gottschalk, L. Adamik, A. Freyer, G. Madia, M. Znaniecki. She participated in many artistic events; for example, at the invitation of Teresa Żylis-Gara, she performed with her in a joint concert in Monaco before Prince Albert. The artist has performed, among others, as part of the Cecilian Days of Sacred Music in Radom, the Vocal Music Festival "Viva il canto" in Cieszyn, Concerts of the Year in the Royal Łazienki in Warsaw, and at opera festivals in the country and abroad (Xanten, Salzburg). She has appeared as a guest in many opera theaters in Poland, including the Krakow Opera, Wrocław Opera, and the National Opera.

 

She has undertaken numerous foreign tours, singing on stages in Austria, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, and Portugal. For her artistic achievements in 2005, she received the award of the Marshal of the Łódź Voivodeship. Since 2007, she has also been a lecturer-teacher at the Vocal and Acting Department of the Academy of Music in Łódź.

 

In 2013, in recognition of her artistic achievements, Dorota Wójcik received the Honorary Badge "Meritorious for Polish Culture." In 2015, the artist received the Award of the Marshal of the Łódź Voivodeship for the entire body of work – for artistic achievements and pedagogical work.

Roles at the Grand Theatre in Łódź:

• CARMEN / Georges Bizet – Micaëla, director: Michel Gies, premiere: September 14, 1991
• HANSEL AND GRETEL / E. Humperdinck – Gretel, director: Jarosław Kilian, premiere: 1992
• FAUST / Charles Gounod – Marguerite, director: Waldemar Zawodziński, premiere: June 19, 1993
• AIDA / Giuseppe Verdi – Priestess, director: Sławomir Żerdzicki, premiere: June 19, 1993
• UBU REX / Krzysztof Penderecki – Pile, director: Lech Majewski, premiere: November 6, 1993
• LA BOHÈME / Giacomo Puccini – Mimi, director: Guram Meliwa, premiere: February 11, 1995
• RIGOLETTO / Giuseppe Verdi – Gilda, director: Guram Meliwa, premiere: April 22, 1995
• THE GYPSY PRINCESS / Emmerich Kálmán – Countess Anastasia, director: Jerzy Woźniak, premiere: June 10, 1995
• MIRACLE, OR CRACOVIAN AND HIGHLANDERS / Wojciech Bogusławski – Basia, director: Andrzej Żarnecki, premiere: October 21, 1995
• THE MAGIC FLUTE / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Pamina, director: Gwenda Berndt, premiere: December 16, 1995
• CASANOVA / Ludomir Różycki – Zelma, director: Włodzimierz Traczewski, premiere: April 13, 1996
• THE GYPSY BARON / Johann Strauss II – Arsena, director: Kazimierz Kowalski, premiere: June 8, 1996
• THE BEGGAR STUDENT / Karl Millöcker – Laura, director: Mariusz Skowronek, premiere: November 16, 1996
• DON GIOVANNI / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zerlina, director: Adam Hanuszkiewicz, premiere: February 7, 1998
• THE QUEEN OF SPADES / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Mascha, Prilepa, director: Stanisław Brejdygant, premiere: April 4, 1998
• THE ELIXIR OF LOVE / Gaetano Donizetti – Adina, director: Robert Skolimowaki, premiere: December 19, 1998
• DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES / Francis Poulenc – Blanche, director: Krzysztof Kelm, premiere: March 15, 2000
• THE MAGIC FLUTE / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Pamina, director: Robert Skolmowski, premiere: April 15, 2000
• THE HAUNTED MANOR / Stanisław Moniuszko – Hanna
• THE COUNTESS / Stanisław Moniuszko – Miss Ewa
• PORGY AND BESS / George Gershwin – Serena, director: Henryk Baranowski, premiere: November 23, 2001
• FALSTAFF / Giuseppe Verdi – Alice Ford, director: Wojtek Biedroń, premiere: February 9, 2002
• CARMEN / Georges Bizet – Micaëla, director: Laco Adamik, premiere: November 18, 2006
• LA BOHÈME / Giacomo Puccini – Mimi, director: Laco Adamik, premiere: February 17, 2007
• I PURITANI / V. Bellini – The Puritans, director: G. Veredon
• CANDIDE – Leonard Bernstein – Cunegonde – director: Tomasz Konina
• THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO / W.A. Mozart – Countess
• THE TALES OF HOFFMANN / Jacques Offenbach – Antonia, director: Giorgio Madia, premiere: December 15, 2007
• EUGENE ONEGIN / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Tatiana, director: Wiesław Ochman, premiere: February 23, 2008

Photo by Joanna Miklaszewska