Ewa Podleś

Ewa Podleś (* 1952 in Warsaw ) is a Polish opera singer ( contra-alto ).

Life

She began her career in 1982 at the Warsaw Opera. Your voice spans three octaves. Thanks to her ability to coloratura and her male-sounding timbre, she sang roles and trouser roles originally written for castrati in Tancredi and Semiramide by Gioachino Rossini , Rinaldo by Georg Friedrich Handel and Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald von Gluck . Deep female roles like Erda in Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner or Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera by Giuseppe Verdi are also part of her repertoire. She has performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Covent Garden Opera London, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Opéra Bastille Paris and the Deutsche Oper Berlin .

personal data
SURNAME	Podleś, Ewa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish opera singer (contra-alto)
DATE OF BIRTH	1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw