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On the 13th of June, this year’s second Opera Rara concert will take place. George Frideric Handel’s Rodelinda will be performed as interpreted by the excellent soloists, Karina Gauvin (Rodelinda), Franco Fagiola (Bertarido), Carl Allemano (Grimoaldo), Ugo Guagliardo (Garibaldo), Marina De Liso (Eduige) and Filippo Minecci (Unulfo), and Capella Cracoviensis under Jan Romasz Adamus.
‘I believe that I am a professional, I love what I do, and I feel I am in my element when I work. I wanted to be a singer and I am. It was my dream, so my job is not really just a job. I would never want to fall into a routine. And it is not difficult to do. A large number of concerts can be tiring, and so can travelling. I should rest more, give my voice time to relax. Psychological comfort is the most important, so I look for moments of absolute freedom, when I can gather my strength, get down to a new score, and prepare for my next projects,’ says Julia Lezhneva in an interview conducted by Polish Radio Two reporter Marcin Majchrowski, featured in the Art&Business magazine.
Julia Lezheva – twenty-three-year-old Russian soprano hailed by Le Figaro as the “new Callas” – is already a world-famous star. Her debut album Alleluia, including Baroque motets of Vivaldi, Händel, and Porpora, was released by the Decca concern, with which the artist has signed an exclusive contract. The album comprises eighteen tracks and Lezhneva delights with her extraordinary timbre in each of them. The tracks include Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate – a piece Lezhneva says she has performed since she was a child. 
Dorota Szwarcman’s blog Co w duszy gra [What’s Playing in My Soul], which is perfectly known to music fans attending the Misteria Paschalia and Sacrum Profanum festivals as well as Opera Rara concerts, won in the ranking of journalists’ blogs prepared for the third time by the PRESS magazine. 
“The Misteria Paschalia Festival is the pride of Poland,” said Małgorzata Omilanowska, Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage during the official jubilee gala preceding yesterday’s inaugural concert of the Misteria Paschalia Festival. A similar opinion was expressed by Małgorzata Małaszko-Stasiewicz, Director of Polish Radio Program 2, who said: “This festival is a model example of co-operation between Krakow and Warsaw.”