dr hab. Aleksandra Kubas-Kruk, prof. AMKL

She graduated with honors from the vocal department of the Karol Lipiński Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she studied singing under Prof. Danuta Paziuk-Zipser. She honed her skills at the University of Music in Vienna. A singer who has received numerous awards, she won, among others, the 1st Prize at the Salomea Kruszelnicka International Vocal Competition in Lviv, the Special Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Toulouse, First Prize and Special Prize at the St. Moniuszko International Vocal Competition in Warsaw, as well as First Prize at the K. Szymanowski International Vocal Competition in Łódź. In addition, she received the Special Prize at the Toti dal Monte International Competition in Treviso and the Audience Prize at the International Vocal Competition in Malmӧ. She was awarded the Jan Kiepura Prize in the Best Singer category, the Wrocław Music Prize, the Wrocław Mayor's Award for “Promoting Wrocław on Polish and international opera stages” and the honorary badge “Meritorious for Polish Culture” awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage. She is also a laureate of the Iuvenes Wratislaviae award for outstanding scientific achievements by the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Her professional opera debut took place at the Wrocław Opera as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto. Her international debut as Kunegunda in Bernstein's Candide took place in theaters in Lucca, Ravenna, Livorno, and Pisa. She made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as the Queen of Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, and then appeared there as the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute and as Fire, Princess and Nightingale in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges. At the Bonn Opera, she sang the title role in Delibes' Lakmé.

Her regular collaboration with the Grand Theatre – National Opera in Warsaw began in 2015, where Aleksandra made her debut as Gilda in Rigoletto. At the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, she appeared at the International Handel Festival as Sigismondo in the opera Arminio (2017). In the 2016-2017 season, she performed the following roles: Konstanze in Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Opera de Toulon (Côte d'Azur), Gilda and Amina (Bellini's La Sonnambula) at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste.

In the 2017-2018 season, she appeared as Violetta Valery in Verdi's La Traviata at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and in the title role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste. Alongside Anne Sophie von Otter, she sang the role of Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide at the National Philharmonic at the end of the season, and alongside Jose Cury, she appeared there in a New Year's concert. She also made her debut at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in the title role of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Golden Cockerel.

During the 2018-2019 season, the Polish soprano created one of her favorite roles, Gilda in Verdi's opera Rigoletto, at opera houses in Novara, Sassari, Warsaw (TWON), Poznań, and Wiesbaden. She also made her debut in Tokyo (Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall) and Zurich (Tonhalle and Opernhaus). In the male role of Primislao in Vinci's opera Gismondo, re di Polonia, she appeared at the Theater an der Wien, at the All'Improviso festival in Gliwice and at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. As Morgana in Alcina, she took part in the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe (2018, 2019).