Iwona Sobotka

Iwona Sobotka achieved international acclaim as the Grand Prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition of Belgium. Other awards include the East & West Artists International Auditions in New York, where she was awarded her debut recital in Carnegie Hall. Described by Sir Simon Rattle as "A really unusual musician with a uniquely beautiful sound quality matched with fierce intelligence." Iwona Sobotka has been collaborating with SSR for almost twenty years now, both in Opera and Symphonic field. This season, Ms. Sobotka returns to Teatr Wielki - National Opera of Poland as Violetta Valéry in Mariusz Trelinski production of Traviata conducted by Patrick Fournillier. Elsewhere in Poland she debuts as Tosca, Neala in Moniuszko´s Paria, Magda in La Rondine and returns a