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Mezzo Soprano
Agnes Zwierko
'The best performances come from Zwierko (...) gloriously over-the-top, steals each scene in which she appears.' - The Guardian
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Biography Highlights
Current and Future Engagements
Return to the Opera de Montreal as Kostelnicka Jenufa and at the Opéra National de Paris as Rychtarka Jenufa, debut at the Teatro de la Maestranza as Grandmother Buryakova Jenufa, Jezibaba Rusalka and Fata Morgana The Love for three Oranges at the Komische Oper Berlin. Zwierko’s future engagements include her return to the Komische Oper Berlin, Teatro Real de Madrid, Opera de Paris.
Recent Engagements
Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon at the Glyndebourne Festival and Glyndebourne on Tour and at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Baba the Turk The Rake’s Progress at Komische Oper Berlin.
Other Engagements
Other engagements include Deaconess Król Roger, Mistress Quickly Falstaff at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Princess Eupraxia The Enchantress at the Theater an der Wien, Amelfa The Golden Cockerel at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at La Monnaie Brussels, Khivrya The Fair at Sorochyntsi, Tangolita Ball in Savoy, Madame de la Haltière Cendrillon at the Komische Oper Berlin, Klytämnestra Elektra Strauss at the Opera de Montreal.
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Cendrillon
Komische Oper Berlin
Cendrillon
Komische Oper Berlin
Golden Cockerel
Theatre Royal de la Monnaie
Golden Cockerel
Theatre Royal de la Monnaie
Sorochinskaya Yarmarka
Komische Oper Berlin
Sorochinskaya Yarmarka
Komische Oper Berlin
Discography
Reviews & Press
Glyndebourne Festival - Massenet - Cendrillon - Madame de la Haltière, stepmother of Cendrillon
La grosse voix d’Agnes Zwierko impose une Haltière terrible, dans tous les sens du terme.
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Agnes Zwierko returns to take the role of the stepmother (she took it in the tour), full of brio and confidence.
Seen and Heard
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Glyndebourne Festival - Massenet - Cendrillon - Madame de la Haltière
The best performances come from Zwierko and Wettergreen. Zwierko, gloriously over-the-top, steals each scene in which she appears.
- Tim Ashley , The Guardian
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Alongside this beauty and pain is exaggerated comedy. The husky Agnes Zwierko dominates the stage as the peroxide and leopard-print Madame de la Haltière, her Botox-loving, binge-shopping daughters, Noémie (Eduarda Melo) and Dorothée (Kezia Bienek), trotting in her wake.
