Aga Mikolaj

Agnieszka Beata Mikołajczyk (7 March 1971 – 11 November 2021), better known by her stage name Aga Mikolaj, was a Polish operatic soprano who made an international career.

She was a member of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich from 2002 to 2007, focusing on Mozart roles, especially Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and performed from San Francisco to Tokyo. She performed and recorded Four Last Songs by Richard Strauss, Penderecki's The Seven Gates of Jerusalem, and Detlev Glanert's Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch, live in Rotterdam in 2016 in its first recording.

Life and career Born in Kutno on 7 March 1971, in 1996 both the Audience Prize and the G. F. Handel Award of the 41st International Vocal Competition 's-Hertogenbosch,

In the 2008/09 season, Mikolaj appeared as Donna Elvira at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, the New National Theatre Tokyo and at the Vienna State Opera and guest performance at the Budapest Spring Festival. In 2012, this role was her first performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel.

Mikolaj died on 11 November 2021, from complications of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland, at the age of 50.

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