Ewa Podleś
Ewa Podleś | |
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coloratura contralto | |
| Years active | 1975–2017 |
| Organizations | Grand Theatre, Warsaw |
| Spouse | Jerzy Marchwiński |
Ewa Maria Podleś (Polish:
Life and career
Ewa Maria Podleś was born in Warsaw on 26 April 1952.[1][2][3] She studied at the Warsaw Academy of Music with Alina Bolechowska.[3][4] During her studies she made her stage debut on the chamber stage of the Grand Theatre, Warsaw, as Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte in 1975.[3] She became known when she won the 1977 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which opened the way to winning in Geneva and Athens the same year.[1] She achieved second place in Barcelona in 1981.[3]
In 1984 she became a member of the Grand Theatre in Warsaw, where she succeeded especially in the
Though known mainly for her interpretation of
In 1996, she sang the role of the Marquise de Berkenfeld in Donizetti's
Podleś's final performance was in La fille du régiment at Barcelona's Liceu in May 2017.[9] On 1 June, she announced that she was pausing her singing career ahead of an upcoming orthopaedic operation, while continuing to teach and with an intention to return to performing. However, her website listed no further appearances during the remainder of her life.[10]
Personal life
Podleś and her husband, the pianist Jerzy Marchwiński, lived in Warsaw.[1][4] Marchwiński died on 7 November 2023.[1]
Podleś died from lung cancer at a hospice facility in Warsaw on 19 January 2024, at the age of 71.[1][2]
Recordings
Podleś made many recordings, CDs and DVDs of complete operas as well as symphonic works, arias and songs.
- Audio CD
- Airs Célèbres (Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Gluck, and Marcello) with Patrick Peire[11][12]
- Chopin: Mélodies with Abdel Rahman El Bacha[11]
- Chopin: Songs with Garrick Ohlsson[11][12][13]
- de Falla: El amor brujo with Krzysztof Penderecki[11]
- Duets (Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann) with Joanna Kozłowska and Jerzy Marchwinski (piano)
- Gluck: Armide as La Haine with Marc Minkowski[11][12][13]
- Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice as Orfeo with Peter Maag[11][13]
- Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice as Orphée with Patrick Peire
- Handel Arias from Rinaldo and Orlando with Constantin Orbelian[11][12]
- Handel: Ariodante as Polinesso with Marc Minkowski[11][12]
- Mahler: Symphony No. 2: "Resurrection" with Jean-Claude Casadesus[11][12]
- Mahler: Symphony No. 3 with Antoni Wit[11][14]
- Mozart: Requiem with Michel Corboz and L'Ensemble vocal et instrumental de Lausanne
- Offenbach: Orphée aux enfers as L'Opinion publique[11]
- Penderecki: Seven Gates of Jerusalem with Kazimierz Kord
- Penderecki: Te Deum and Lacrimosa[12]
- Ewa Podleś & Garrick Ohlsson Live[11][12]
- Marta Ptaszynska: Concerto for Marimba; Songs of Despair and Loneliness[11]
- Prokofiev: Alexandr Nevsky with Jean-Claude Casadesus[11][13]
- Puccini: Il trittico with Bruno Bartoletti
- Respighi: Il Tramonto with Michał Nesterowicz[13]
- Rossini Arias for Contralto with Pier Giorgio Morandi[12][11]
- Rossini Gala with Wojciech Michniewski
- Rossini: Tancredi as Tancredi with Alberto Zedda[6][12][14]
- Russian Arias with Constantin Orbelian[12][14]
- Russian Melodies (Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff), with Graham Johnson[11]
- A Treasury of Polish Songs with Ewa Pobłocka
- DVD
- Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto as Cornelia from Barcelona Opera[11]
- Donizetti: La fille du régiment as Marquise de Berkenfeld[11]
- Ponchielli: La Gioconda as La Cieca from Barcelona Opera[11]
- Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia as Ciro from Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival[14]
- Massenet: Cendrillon as Madame de la Haltière from Royal Opera Covent Garden[11]
- Tchaikovsky:
References
- ^ Radio Polskie. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ a b Woolfe, Zachary (22 January 2024). "Ewa Podles, a Rare Contralto With Sweeping Range, Dies at 71". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ ISBN 978-3-59-844088-5.
- ^ a b Polskie Radio (27 February 2012). "Partnerstwo: Ewa Podleś i Jerzy Marchwiński". Retrieved 30 January 2013 (in Polish)
- ^ a b Midgette, Anne (21 October 2008). "The Elemental Power of Ewa Podles". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ a b Glass, Herbert (30 July 1995). "New Opera Recordings for a Song". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
- ^ Midgette, Anne (16 October 1998). "A Voice as Rare in Type as in Beauty", The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2013.
- ^ Bresnal, Barry (May 2010). "Review: Donizetti: La Fille du régiment". Fanfare. Retrieved 30 January 3013 via HighBeam Research.
- ^ Novak, Josephine, "La fille du régiment at the Liceu", Metropolitan Barcelona, 30 May 2017.
- ^ Ewa Podleś Official Website /Performances.
- ^ Muziekweb. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Ewa Podleś". culture.pl (in Polish). 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Ewa Podleś". Classics Today. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Ewa Podleś". Naxos. Retrieved 22 January 2024.
External links
- Official website
- Ewa Podleś at IMDb
- Ewa Podleś discography at Discogs
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