Mezzosoprano
Agnieszka Cząstka-Niezgódka
Mezzosoprano
Agnieszka Cząstka-Niezgódka
Since 2003, a soloist of the Krakow Opera, graduate of the Academy of Music in Krakow, where she graduated from the Faculty of Voice and Drama in the class of Professor Barbara Niewiadomska (diploma in 2001), and the Faculty of Music Education (the choir conducting section, diploma in 1997).
She can be heard in many leading opera roles, including Carmen (“Carmen” by G. Bizet), Jadwiga (“The Haunted Manor” by S. Moniuszko), Zaida (“The Turk in Italy” by G. Rossini), Suzuki (“Madame Butterfly” by G. Puccini), Orpheus (“Orpheus and Euridice” by Ch. W. Gluck), Adalgisa (“Norma” by V. Bellini), Lucretia (the Polish première of the opera “The Rape of Lucretia” by B. Britten), Orlofsky (“Die Fledermaus” by J. Strauss). She successfully performed the following parts: Zofia (“Halka” by S. Moniuszko), Polina (“The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky), Olga (“Eugene Onegin” by P. Tchaikovsky), Zerlina ("Don Giovanni” by W. A. Mozart), Marcellina (“The Marriage of Figaro” by W. A. Mozart), Dorabella (“Cosi fan tutte” by W. A. Mozart), Siebel (“Faust” by Ch. Gounod), Magdalena (“Rigoletto” by G. Verdi), Flora (“La Traviata” by G. Verdi), Dryad ("Ariadne on Naxos” by R. Strauss), Smeraldina (“The Love for Three Oranges” by S. Prokofyev), Orestes (“La Belle Helene” by J. Offenbach), Deaconess (“King Roger” by K. Szymanowski), Ines (“The Troubadour” by G. Verdi), Zulma (“L'italiana in Algeri” by G. Rossini), Marta (“Mephistopheles” by Arrigo Boito) and Berta (“The Barber of Seville” by G. Rossini).
She cooperates with Polish opera theatres and the Krakow Chamber Ensemble. For more than eight years, she was the soloist of the early music ensemble at the Wawel Royal Castle “Floripari”. She gives concerts in Poland and abroad (Benelux countries, Great Britain, Norway, Austria, Germany, France, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kuwait, the USA).
In April 2006, she sang the part of the Mother at the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra in the world première of the oratorio The Holocaust Symphony “The Train” by Richard Edlinger, under musical direction of Tomasz Bugaj, and in 2007, she appeared as Jadwiga in the première performance of the opera of Stanisław Moniuszko “The Haunted Manor” in Chicago, Rosemont Theatre, conducted by Wojciech Niewrzoł. In year 2008, she sang a solo part at the Podlaska Opera and Philharmonic Orchestra in the project by Erns Van Tiel (and under his musical supervision) for live performance of Sergey Prokofiev’s music for a projection of the film “Alexander Nevsky” by Sergei Eisenstein. In 2015, she performed one of the main parts in the première, semi-scenic staging of the opera “Olga Bo” written by Marcin Błażewicz and conducted by Łukasz Borowicz at the Krakow Opera.
The artist is also successful in performing oratorios, songs, operetta, film and musical hits. She sang with success as Mrs. Errol in the musical “Little Lord Fauntleroy” by Steven Markwick and an acting role (Yente) in the “Fiddler on the Roof” by Jerry Bock. Apart from opera, she is pursuing her other hobbies by writing film music for the “Taurus” film studio and painting (including glass painting).