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The Polish soprano, Marta Boberska, graduated with honours from the singing class of Janina Skalik at the F. Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw in 1995. As a student, she received scholarships from the Ministry of Culture and the Arts and the Mayor of the Capital City of Warsaw.
Between 1994 and 2017 Marta Boberska was a soloist at the Warsaw Chamber Opera. Since 2017 she has been a soloist in the Polish Royal Opera. She performed over 40 solo parts on stage, in operas by W.A. Mozart (Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Susanna and Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Fauno in Ascanio in Alba), G. Rossini, George Frideric Handel (Clomiri in Imeneo, Armida in Rinaldo), C. Monteverdi (Drusilla in The Coronation of Poppea, La Musica in L'Orfeo), H. Purcell, G. Verdi, J. Blow, G. Rossini, D. Cimarosa, Alessandro Scarlatti, J.B. Lully, A. Campra, as well as oratorio parts in various works by J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, and many others. She has collaborated with the Polish National Opera (Widma and Verbum nobile by S. Moniuszko), the Latvian National Opera in Riga (Die Zauberflöte by W.A. Mozart), the Opera Nova in Bydgoszcz (The Messiah by G.F. Handel), the Cracow Opera (Cosi fan tutte by W.A. Mozart, The Revenge of the Bat by J. Strauss). In the season 1998-1999 the played the Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte directed by Jean-Claude Malgoire, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris and in other theatres. At the Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw she partnered K. Janda in the play Maria Callas - lekcja śpiewu (“Maria Callas – a singing lesson”). She also performs modern music: she has given the first performance of Marijn Simons' song cycle and Zygmunt Krauze's opera Balthazar.
Marta Boberska gives many concerts, performs chamber and oratorio-cantata music. She collaborates with many ensembles and performers specializing in period music but also performs modern music (e.g. the first performance of the Marijn Simons song cycle in Finland in 2003). She collaborates with the Polish Radio (concerts, recitals, and archival recordings). She has performed under many acclaimed conductors, such as Jerzy Maksymiuk, Jan Krenz, A. Wit, K. Kord, W. Michniewski, J. Kaspszyk, T. Strugała, A. Straszyński, T. Bugaj, T. Wojciechowski, Christopher Hogwood, Frans Brüggen, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Helmuth Rilling, M. Zilm, M. Plasson, Ł. Borowicz, J. M. Florêncio, K. Bumann, R. Silva, M. Dworzyński. She has cooperated with a number of early music ensembles and performers, including Władysław Kłosiewicz, Agata Sapiecha and Marek Toporowski.
Marta Boberska performs in theatres and concert halls in Poland and abroad, e.g. in Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Japan, Oman, USA, Lebanon, Ukraine, and Russia. She participated in many festivals (e.g. the Beethoven Festival, The Wratislavia Cantans, the Chopin and His Europe Festival, the Music in the Old Cracow Festival, the Goldberg Festival, the Music in the Historical Sites of Warsaw, the Warsaw Music Encounters, the Al Bustan Festival, the Festival van Vlaanderen Brugge, the Two Days & Nights of New Music Odessa).
Her artistic output includes many recordings, for instance: Johann Adolf Hasse's Zenobia, G.F. Handel's Imeneo, Kaspar Forster's Vanitas vanitatum, J. Peri's Euridice, M. Mielczewski's Opera omnia, G.G. Gorczycki's Opera omnia, S.S. Szarzyński's Opera omnia, Domenico Scarlatti's Tetide in Sciro, J. Strauss's The Revenge of the Bat, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8, S. Moniuszko's Msze (Vol. 1 and 2). She has contributed to the complete works of Marcin Mielczewski and Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki. She has also recorded for radio, television, and film (music by J.A.P. Kaczmarek in Agnieszka Holland’s films, and soundtracks for films by Andrzej Wajda and other directors).
Marta Boberska was frequently nominated for various music awards, e.g. the Polityka Passport Award (2000, 2001, and 2002), and the Fryderyk Award (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005). In 2009, the album Msze by S. Moniuszko, in which she appeared, won the Fryderyk Award. She was awarded by the President of the Republic of Poland with the Silver and Golden Cross of Merit, and the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. |
