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‘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.

‘I would like to congratulate you on the excellent organisation of the recently concluded Misteria Paschalia Festival,’ writes Paweł Potoroczyn, Director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in a special letter to Izabela Helbin, Director of the Krakow Festival Office. He goes on to add: ‘Under your direction, the Krakow Festival Office has become one of the major cultural institutions in Poland, whose dynamic actions determine new standards in culture management.’

Check out reportage from the last four days of the 10th Misteria Paschalia Festival.

The Misteria Paschalia Festival has proved once again the musical and spiritual richness of works of early epochs. It has also shown how much we have learned to understand and appreciate them. The role of Misteria Paschalia in the broadly understood promotion of early music cannot be underestimated. The Krakow festival also has a considerable impact on the development of Polish historical music performance. … The promotional role of the festival with regard to Polish musical culture deserves great praise,’ writes Anna Woźniakowska in her summary of this year’s 10th jubilee edition of the Misteria Paschalia Festival in the weekend issue of Dziennik Polski.

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