Agnieszka Rehlis

Mezzo Soprano

2022 Gloria Artis award winner, Agnieszka Rehlis’s 22/23 season features her house debuts with the Royal Opera House as Amneris Aida, Dutch National Opera as Mezzo soloist in the staged Verdi’s Requiem, return to Zurich Opera as Waltraute Götterdämmerung, Teatro alla Scala as Ksenia’s Nurse Boris Godunov, Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse in the title role in Rape of Lucretia, and Opera Australia as Amneris Aida Laura Roberto Devereux and Laura Badoero / La Cieca in concert version of La Gioconda.

Last season engagements include appearances at Teatro Real Madrid as Fortune Teller The Fiery Angel, return to Zürich Opera as Azucena Il Trovatore and Waltraute in the Ring Cycle, Amneris Aida Teatro San Carlo di Napoli, Savonlinna Festival. At the Opera Australia and the National Theatre Prague, Rehlis was heard in the role of Amneris Aida, she took on Lucretia in Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse*.

Recent seasons were highlighted by her house debuts at the Bayerische Staatsoper as Fenena in Nabucco, Oviedo Opera as Waltraute in Götterdämmerung, and the Teatro de la Maestranza with the role of Azucena in Il Trovatore. Rehlis returned to the Opernhaus Zürich as the mezzo soloist in the staged version of Verdi Requiem, Komische Oper Berlin with Khivrya in Sorochinskaya Yarmarka and to the Aalto Musiktheater Essen as Amneris in Aida.

Recent season highlights include Anna in Les Troyens for Semperoper Dresden, Mother Superior/Fortune-teller/Landlady in The Fiery Angel for Opernhaus Zürich, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Scottish Opera, Polish National Opera, Teatro Real de Madrid and Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Liese and Hannah in Weinberg’s The Passenger at the Bregenz Festival, Polish National Opera Warsaw, Houston Grand Opera, Lincoln Center Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and Florida Grand Opera, Mafio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia, Fenena in Nabucco for Polish National Opera Warsaw, Amneris in Aida for Estonian National Opera, Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos for Krakow Opera House, and Azucena in Il Trovatore for Theater Erfurt and Konzert Theater Bern.

Recent engagements include Laura in La Gioconda, Carmen, Fenena  Nabucco, Azucena Il Trovatore, Jadwiga Haunted Manor, Deaconess  King Roger, Hodel Fiddler on the Roof, Fricka Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, performed for Opera Wroclaw and Polish National Opera.

An accomplished performer of modern music, she has performed in concert of works composed and conducted by Krzysztof Penderecki, participated in the world premiere of his Symphony No. 8 Lieder der Vergänglichkeit, and is featured in the Grammy Award winning recording of Penderecki conducts Penderecki.