Biography

ADRIANA FERFECKA

Polish soprano Adriana Ferfecka graduated from The Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw in the singing class of Professor Jolanta Janucik. In the 2014/2015 season she was a member of The Opera Academy at The Grande Théâtre–Polish National Opera in Warsaw. In 2015 she was a participant of The Young Singers Project at The Salzburg Festival in Austria where she created the role of Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia.

She is the first prize winner at numerous competitions as The International Competition for Opera Singers “Ferruccio Tagliavini” in Austria (2014), The International Competition „Le Grand Prix de l’Opera” in Romania (2014), The Classical Singing Competition DEBUT in Germany (2014), The International Opera Competition “Ottavio Ziino” in Italy (2014), The International Singing Competition "Iris Adami Corradetti" in Italy (2016) among others. In October 2018 she won The Third Prize and The Soroptimist Club Vercelli Prize at The 69th Gian Battista Viotti International Music Competition in Italy.

As a scholarship singer at The Deutsche Oper Berlin (2015–2017) she sang the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Xanthe in Die Liebe der Danae, Anna in Nabucco, Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro, Frasquita in Carmen and Zerlina in Don Giovanni among others. In the 2016/2017 season she made her debut at The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Corinna in Il viaggio a Reims. In the next years this young artist performed Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro at Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Nella in Gianni Schicchi at De Nationale Opera in Amsterdam, Valencienne in Die lustige Witwe at Teatro La Fenice as well as at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma and Micaëla in Carmen at Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2019 she performed for the first time on Polish opera stages creating the role of Mimì in La Bohème at The Silesian Opera House in Bytom and the title part in Suor Angelica at the opening gala concert of The International Ada Sari Vocal Art Festival in Nowy Sącz.

In the 2019/2020 season she made her debuts in such parts as Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron at The Stanisław Moniuszko Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic–European Art Centre in Białystok, Adina in L’elisir d’amore at The Silesian Opera House in Bytom and Ilia in Idomeneo, Re di Creta at Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. The 2020/2021 season is marked by her performances as Mimì in Wrocław Opera House and The Grande Théâtre–Polish National Opera in Warsaw. At The Grande Théâtre–Polish National Opera she will also create the role of Micaëla. She will also return to Teatro dell’Opera di Roma where she will perform as Liu in Turandot.

Adriana Ferfecka cooperated with such directors as Robert Carsen, Damiano Michieletto, David Herman, Ole Anders Tandberg, Jan Philipp Gloger, Roland Schwab among others as well as with such conductors as Stefano Montanari, Michele Mariotti, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Marc Albrecht, Donald Runnicles, Andrea Battistoni and José Cura among others.