Joanna Zawartko made her debut in 2013 in the title role of Dvořák’s Rusalka during a concert version of the opera staged at the Lower Silesian Philharmonic. A year later, she made her stage debut at the Wrocław Opera in the role of Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello. Her repertoire also includes roles such as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Tatyana in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Tamara in Rubinstein’s The Demon, Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème, the title roles in Moniuszko’s Halka and Szymanowski’s Hagith, Micaëla in Bizet’s Carmen, Zemfira in Rachmaninov’s Aleko, Amelia in Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, Ortlinde in Wagner’s Die Walküre, and Roxana in Szymanowski’s King Roger.
She has performed at, among others, the Oper Graz, the Tiroler Landestheater Innsbruck, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Landestheater Linz, the Staatstheater Nürnberg, the Grand Theatre in Łódź, Wrocław Opera, the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera in Warsaw, and the Philharmonic of: Lower Silesia, Kalisz, Košice, Koszalin, Liepāja, Lublin, Warsaw, Pomerania, Poznań, Sudety, Silesia, Zielona Góra, as well as the National Forum of Music in Wrocław.
She has collaborated with conductors such as Bassem Akiki, Adam Banaszak, Jakub Chrenowicz, Marzena Diakun, Seokwon Hong, Jacek Kaspszyk, Michał Klauza, Roland Kluttig, Rafał Kłoczko, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Patrick Lange, Ewa Michnik, Marcin Nałęcz-Niesiołowski, Marek Pijarowski, Markus Poschner, Wojciech Rodek, Zygmunt Rychert, Jerzy Salwarowski, Robertas Šervenikas, Ruben Silva, Daniele Squeo, Piotr Sułkowski, Jan Ślęk, Lutz de Veer, Johannes Willig, and Tadeusz Wojciechowski.
Joanna Zawartko is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Wrocław, where she attended the solo singing class of Prof. Agata Młynarska-Klonowska. She is a laureate of both international and national vocal competitions, including the 9th International Stanisław Moniuszko Vocal Competition in Warsaw and the 49th Antonín Dvořák International Vocal Competition in Karlovy Vary.
She received the Coryphaeus of Polish Music Award 2018 in the Discovery of the Year category.