EWA PODLES

'Ewa Podleś' (last name pronounced ''PODE-lesh'') was born April 26 1952 in Warsaw, Poland. She is an internationally celebrated contralto with a very wide vocal range (up to soprano high C) and great vocal agility. After studying at the Warsaw Academy of Music under Madame Bolechowska, Podles made her stage debut as ''Dorabella'' in Mozart's ''Così fan tutte'' in 1975. Podles made her Met debut in 1984 singing the title role in Handel's ''Rinaldo'' and since then has gone on to performing regularly at all the major opera houses in Europe and America.
Though known mainly by her Baroque works, Podles' repertoire ranges from Handel's ''Giulio Cesare'' (Cesare) to songs by Shostakovich. Right at the center of her abilities; however, are the contralto roles (some of them "trouser" roles) from Gioacchino Rossini.
Her recent performances includes ''La Cieca'' in Ponchielli's ''La Gioconda'', ''Bertarido'' in Händel's Rodelinda, the title role in Rossini's ''Tancredi'', the title role in Handel's ''Giulio Cesare in Egitto'', ''Isabella'' in Rossini's ''L'Italiana in Algeri'', ''Erda'' in Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Seattle Opera, and Klytämnestra in Richard Strauss's ''Elektra'' with the Canadian Opera Company.
Madame Podles and her husband, the accomplished pianist Jerzy Marchwinski, live in Warsaw, Poland.

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External links

★ http://www.podles.pl/ (Ewa Podles' official site in English and Polish)

★ http://www.delosmus.com/bio/eva_podles.html (Delos International site)

★ http://theoperacritic.com/singers.php?singer=ewa_podles (TheOperaCritic.com singer's page)

Recordings

'Audio CD'

★ 'Airs Célebres' (Händel, Vivaldi, Purcell, Gluck, and Marcello)

★ Chopin: 'Mélodies'

★ Chopin: 'Songs'

★ de Falla: 'El Amor Brujo' with Krzysztof Penderecki

★ 'Duets' (Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann)

★ Gluck: 'Armide' as ''La Haine'' with Marc Minkowski

★ Gluck: 'Orfeo ed Euridice' as ''Orfeo'' with Peter Maag

★ Gluck: 'Orphée et Eurydice' as ''Orphée

★ 'Händel Arias from Rinaldo and Orlando'

★ Händel: 'Ariodante' as ''Polinesso'' with Marc Minkowski

★ Mahler: 'Symphony No.2: Resurrection' with Jean-Claude Casadesus

★ Mahler: 'Symphony No.3' with Antoni Wit

★ Mozart: 'Requiem' with Michel Corboz & L'Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Lausanne

★ Offenbach: 'Orphée aux Enfers' as ''L'Opinion publique''

★ Penderecki: 'Seven Gates of Jerusalem' with Kazimierz Kord

★ Penderecki: 'Te Deum and Lacrimosa'

★ 'Ewa Podles & Garrick Ohlsson Live'

★ Ptaszynska: 'Concerto for Marimba; Songs of Despair and Loneliness'

★ Prokofiev: 'Alexandr Nevsky' with JC Casadesus

★ Puccini: 'Il Trittico' with Bruno Bertoletti

★ Respighi: 'Il Tramonto' with Michel Nesterowicz

★ 'Rossini Arias for Contralto'

★ 'Rossini Gala' with W Michniewski

★ Rossini: 'Tancredi' as ''Tancredi'' with A Zedda

★ 'Russian Melodies'

★ 'A Treasury of Polish Songs' with Ewa Poblocka
'DVD'

★ Händel: 'Giulio Cesare in Egito' as ''Giulio Cesare'' from Barcelona Opera

★ Donizetti: 'La Fille du Regiment'

★ Ponchielli: 'La gioconda'' as La cieca from Barcelona Opera