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The Polish-born contralto, Magdelana Wór, has lived in the USA since 1991. She received her Bachelor of Music and her Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from Georgia State University and is a student of Magdalena Moulson-Falewicz. She is a winner, finalist and recipient of many prestigious national and international competitions and awards, including First Place Winner of the Heinz Rehfuss Vocal Competition, Marcello Giordani and Moniuszko International Vocal Competitions, Marcella Kochanska Sembrich National Vocal Competition, and Metropolitan Opera Competition National Finalist, among others. She is an alumna of the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Program, San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Programs, Chautauqua Music Institution’s Marlena Malas Voice Program as well as a winner of the Pro-Mozart Society of Atlanta Competition. In 2008, she completed the Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera.
Over the last several seasons Magdelana Wór has worked with The Metropolitan Opera, the National Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic in Washington, DC, the Washington National Opera, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Baltic Opera, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Washington Concert Opera, Atlanta Opera, Virginia Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, and New Trinity Baroque, among others.
Magdelana Wór's opera roles include those of Carmen, Suzuki, Cherubino, Maddalena, Tisbe, Enrichetta, Orfeo, Rosina, and Cenerentola, and her orchestral repertoire includes J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232, Verdi's Requiem, George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”, Antonio Vivaldi's Gloria, J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D major BWV 243, Beach's Mass in Eb Major, Grieg's Peer Gynt, and J.S. Bach's Johannes-Passion BWV 245, among others. She has performed recitals at the Polish and Hungarian Embassies in Washington, DC. She has appeared recent with Choral Foundation ensembles in the W.A. Mozart's Requiem and Igor Stravinsky's Mass with the William Baker Festival Singers, and in Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with the Summer Singers of Atlanta.
Equally comfortable in Opera, Symphony and Chamber works, Magdelana Wór is often praised by music critics and fans alike for the rich color of her voice, vocal flexibility- which allows her to sing low and high mezzo repertoire, from Baroque through 21st century- and for her complete devotion to both the music and the text at hand. She is represented by JEJ Artists. |
