Helena Oleska
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Helena Jadwiga Oleska (born Helena Jadwiga Bulikowska , married Misky , pseudonym Elena Palmy ; born July 15, 1875 in Lemberg ; † May 16, 1969 in Krakow ) was a Polish opera singer (mezzo-soprano) and vocal teacher.
Oleska studied singing with Adeline de Paschalis Souvestre in Dresden , made her debut as an opera singer in 1900 and performed with great success at the Teatro di San Carlo in Lisbon , in Milan and Modena under the pseudonym Elena Palmy. After marrying the notary Alexander Misky, she returned to Lviv.
Only in the season 1905-06 she sat, now under the pseudonym Oleska, her stage career at the Lviv Opera continued and sang Amneris in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi , the Jadwiga in The Haunted Manor and Stanislaw Moniuszko , Ortrud in Wagner's Lohengrin , the Magdalena in Rigoletto and the title role in Camille Saint-Saëns ' Samson et Dalila . At a concert with the composer Władysław Żeleński in Kraków in 1906 she sang excerpts from his opera Stara baśń .
In addition to her work at the Lemberg Opera, which lasted until 1909, she had successes in the 1907-08 season at the Warsaw Opera with roles such as Herodias in Strauss' Salome , Fricka in Wagner's Die Walküre and the title role in Bizet's Carmen . Between 1907 and 1910 she performed more often with the Warsaw Philharmonic , and in the 1909-10 season also at Teatr Wielki .
In 1910 she opened a singing school in Lemberg, to which she devoted herself entirely after retiring from the opera stage in 1912. The opera singer Andrzej Hiolski was her foster son, and her daughter Felicja Misky also embarked on a career as a singer.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oleska, Helena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oleska, Helena Jadwiga; Bulikowska, Helena Jadwiga; Misky, Helena; Palmy, Elena |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 16, 1969 |
| Place of death | Krakow |