Isabelle Wnorowska-Pluchart Alto
Season 23/24 ArtistChorus of the Opera

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Biography

Membre of the Paris Opera Chorus

Born in Poland, Isabelle Wnorowska-Pluchard studied at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw from 1994 to 2000. During her final year of singing studies, she was invited to perform in Poland and Germany. She sang the role of Dorabella (Così fan tutte) at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, and the Second Lady (The Magic Flute) on tour in Germany with the Trawinska-Moroz Company. She took part in many masterclasses with Christian Elssner, Krystyna Szostek-Radkowa and Sylvia Geszty, and performed recitals on the Polish operatic stages of Warsaw, Cracow and Gdansk.

In 2001, she joined the Paris Opera Chorus and worked with Jorge Chaminé, Christiane Patard and Raphaël Sikorski. A laureate of CIMA (Concerti in Monte Argentario), she has taken part in several concerts at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CIMA (Tuscany) and in a recording of Tchaikovsky melodies and Bizet arias. A finalist in the Young Artist Competition in Europe, she has given numerous song recitals in France, Italy, Poland and Germany. In 2011, she took part in a masterclass with Teresa Berganza in Bougival.

She also performed in concert with the Vittoria Choir conducted by Michel Piquemal and sang Poulenc’s Gloria, Martial Caillebotte’s Dies Irae and Martin Palmeri’s Misa Tango.

Her repertoire includes Purcell, Handel and Stravinski, but also Mozart (Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Sesto in La clemenza di Tito) Rossini, Malher, Massenet (Charlotte in Werther), Moniuszko and Tchaikovsky (Tatiana in Eugen Onegin).

At the Paris Opera: Moses und Aron (Stimme aus dem Dornbusch), 2015; Rigoletto (Contessa), 2021; Roméo et Juliette (Pepita), 2023

Biography

Born in Poland in 1974, Isabelle Wnorowska-Pluchard studied at the Frederic Chopin Academy of Music in Varsovie from 1994 until 2000. She performed the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Grand Theatre in Varsovie and the Second Lady in Magic Flute on tour in Germany with the Trawinska-Moroz opera Company. In 2001, she joined the Paris Opera Chorus and worked with Jorge Chaminé, Christiane Patard and Raphaël Sikorski. A laureate of CIMA (Concerti in Monte Argentario), she has taken part in several concerts at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, CIMA (Tuscany) and in a recording of Tchaikovsky melodies and Bizet arias. A finalist in the Young Artist Competition in Europe, she has given numerous song recitals in France, Italy, Poland and Germany. In 2011, she took part in a master class with Teresa Berganza in Bougival. During the last year she has been performing in concert with the Vittoria Choir conducted by Michel Piquemal and has sung Poulenc’s Gloria, Dies Irae by Martial Caillebotte and Misa Tango by Martin Palmeri. Her repertoire ranges from Giulio Cesare by Handel (Cleopatra) to Halka by Moniuszko, and includes Mozart (Fordiligi, la Comtesse), Verdi (Desdemona in Otello, Leonora in Il Trovatore, Elisabetta in Don Carlos) and Tchaikovsky (Tatiana in Eugene Onegin).

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