Joanna Woà  is a Polish operatic coloratura soprano who made an international career on stage and in concert.
Woà  graduated from the Academy of Music in à Âódà º. She made her debut on the stage of the Grand Theatre in à Âódà º with the title role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. She has a sonorous voice with a wide range, ranging to high F6. Nicknamed "Queen of Italian bel canto", she is laureate of major vocal competitions in Poland, such as a prize at the 1989 International Vocal Competition in Bilbao, and was awarded the Golden Mask music critics awards several times.
Woà  has performed with the Polish National Opera, the Cracow Opera, the Grand Theatre in Poznaà Â, the National Philharmonic and the Cracow Philharmonic. She has appeared in guest performances at Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Parco della Musica in Rome, the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre in Moscow, the National Opera in Vilnius, and the National Opera in Zagreb, and on other opera and concert stages in Europe, the US and Russia. In April 2010 she recorded for the BBC, Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marin Alsop at the Royal Festival Hall in London. In 2013 the Grand Theatre in Lodz staged especially for her Donizetti's Anna Bolena.
She became an honorary citizen of à Âódà º in 2017.
Woà  performed in concert works such as Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, Rossini's Stabat Mater and Szymanowski's Stabat Mater, Gounod's St. Cecilia Mass, Fauré's Requiem, Mozart's Exsultate, jubilate and Orff's Carmina Burana.