Daniela Leska - Soprano
With a “vivacious personality and a vibrant voice with a warm glow,” Australian soprano D a n i e l a L e s k a is a Singapore-based soprano with Polish heritage; born Daniela Jedrzejczak. She has enjoyed an international career spanning almost two decades and has been a soloist in Australia, Germany, Switzerland, China and Singapore in opera, music theatre and on the concert platform. As Pamina in the Magic Flute with Opera Australia, Daniela’s voice was reviewed as “a beautiful sound that expresses both great joy and also deep sorrow.”
Daniela has performed opera excerpts as Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro), Mimì and Musetta (La bohème), Laetitia (The Old Maid and the Thief), Micaëla (Carmen), Liù (Turandot), Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare) and Gilda (Rigoletto). Her staged full-roles include Pamina, Papagena and a Sprite (Die Zauberflöte); Annina (La Traviata), Despina (Così fan tutte); Sophie (Werther), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), The Tailor and Bianca-understudy (Goetz’s The Taming of the Shrew), Baker’s Wife (Into the Woods) and Beth Moss (The Tender Land).
Daniela has collaborated with companies including Opera Australia, Singapore Lyric Opera, State Opera of South Australia, Adelaide Chamber Singers, Australian International Opera Company, Lyric Opera of Melbourne, Lieder Society of Victoria, Co-Opera Inc. and Australian Global Entertainment.
As a soloist on the concert platform, Daniela has sung Handel’s Messiah and Mozart’s Requiem. Her audiences have included the former President of the Republic of Poland, Mr Andrzej Duda and former Australian Prime Minister, Mr Kevin Rudd. Daniela has been a featured artist on ABC Classic FM and SBS Polish Radio, she has been a fully-funded Pacific Opera Young Artist and is the recipient of two prestigious George Boland Scholarships.
A peripatetic singing teacher in Singapore at the Australian International School and Evolve Arts, Daniela holds a Graduate Diploma from Western Australia’s Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) and a Bachelor of Music with First-Class Honours from The University of Adelaide.