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This season, Podolak sings Gabriel in Haydn's The Creation with Peterborough Symphony and appears in concert with the Orchestre classique de Montreal. In recital, Podolak features as part of the Women's Musical Club of Toronto's concert series, following her recital debut at Opéra National de Bordeaux last season. Recent operatic highlights include the title role in Janáček's The Cunning Little Vixen & Kate Pinkerton Madama Butterfly for Canadian Opera Company, a house debut as Adele Die Fledermaus at Edmonton Opera, as well as concert performances as Papagena Die Zauberflöte at Daegu Opera House.
Other previous highlights include Violetta La Traviata for Bulgaria National Opera, Staatstheater Augsburg and Southern Ontario Lyric Opera, as well as Le Feu, La Princesse & Le Rossignol in Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges for Opéra de Montréal. In November 2019, Podolak made her operatic debut at Silesian Opera House as Zuzia in the academic premiere of Stanislaw Moniuszko's Verbum Nobile, returning later that season as Adele Die Fledermaus. Podolak was a member of the opera studio at Canadian Opera Company for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
In concert, recent highlights include Fauré's Requiem & Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace with Toronto Sinfonietta, Mozart's Requiem at the Sing the North Festival and Markopoulos’s Liturgy of Orpheus at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus. Elsewhere she has appeared with the Toronto Concert Orchestra, Southern Ontario Lyric Opera, Toronto Sinfonietta, Opera de San Miguel in Mexico, Meininger Staatstheater, The Symphony Orchestra of Zabrze Philharmonic and Silesian Philharmonic. She performs regularly for the Polish Consulate and Legislative Assembly of Ontario in Toronto, and has been a featured soloist in the Congregation of Polish Choirs in Warsaw. In 2024, Podolak was awarded the Bronze Cross of Merit from the President of Poland for her contributions as an artist.
Karoline Podolak graduated from Ryerson University's RTA School of Media and completed a Master’s degree in Opera Performance at the K. Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice. She continues her studies with Kinga Mitrowska.
2025/26 season / 402 words. Not to be altered without permission.