Ewa Bandrowska-Turska
Ewa Bandrowska-Turska (born May 20, 1894 in Kraków , † June 25, 1979 in Warsaw ) was a Polish singer (coloratura soprano) and music teacher.
Bandrowska-Turska was a student of her uncle Alexander von Bandrowski and the singer Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska . She made her debut in Vienna in 1916 and in the same year gave a concert of songs by Schubert and Schumann in Krakow . She made her stage debut in 1917 at the Great Theater in Warsaw as Margarete in Charles Gounod's opera Faust .
From 1917 to 1922 she was engaged at the City Theater of Lviv, after which a lung disease forced her to take a spa stay in Zakopane. From 1923 to 1925 she had an engagement in Poznan, in the following years she made guest appearances in Lviv and Katowice. Until 1937 and from 1949 until the end of her singing career in 1961, she was engaged again in Warsaw. Concert tours led her a. a. to Bratislava, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Sofia, Leningrad, Odessa, Moscow, Paris, Nice, Brussels, Ostend, New York, Chicago and Cleveland.
In addition to classical soprano roles in the opera, the songs of Karol Szymanowski were the focus of Bandrowska-Turska's repertoire . Tadeusz Kassern composed a concerto for voice and orchestra for her, Reinhold Glier a concerto for coloratura soprano and orchestra and Alexander Arutjunjan composed a concerto for coloratura soprano. In 1961 she left the stage with the role of Countess in Stanisław Moniuszko's opera Hrabina .
From 1945 to 1949 Bandrowska-Turska was a professor at the State Music Academy in Cracow, from 1949 to 1951 at the Academy of Opera in Poznan. In 1952 she was awarded the Polish State First Class Prize.
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| SURNAME | Bandrowska-Turska, Ewa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish singer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 25, 1979 |
| Place of death | Warsaw |