Wiktoria Calma

Wiktoria Calma , also Vittoria Calma , actually Wiktoria Kotulak (born November 29, 1920 in Trzcinica , Subcarpathian Voivodeship ; † January 28, 2007 ) was a Polish opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Calma was discovered in 1935 by Adam Didur , who trained as a singer and to whom her stage name goes back. She made her operatic debut at the age of seventeen at the Lemberg City Theater in the title role of Ambroise Thomas ' opera Mignon . Her planned major debut in Warsaw fell victim to the invasion of Poland by German troops. She initially stayed in Warsaw, where she continued to take lessons from Didur and, like many Polish artists at that time, performed in coffee houses.

After the Warsaw Uprising was put down , she fled to Krakow . Here she appeared on December 25, 1944 alongside Bolesław Fotygo-Folański as Halka in Moniuszko 's opera of the same name. In 1945 she sang the same role at the opening of the Silesian Theater in Bytom . With the performance of Cavalleria rusticana , Madama Butterfly and La Bohème , she established herself as the prima donna of the house over the next few years . In 1947 she went to Milan . Here she stepped u. a. 1972 at Scala in Shostakovich's opera Die Nase auf.

literature

KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 429, ISBN 3-907820-70-3

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personal data
SURNAME	Calma, Wiktoria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Calma, Vittoria; Kotulak, Wiktoria (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH	November 29, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Trzcinica , Subcarpathian Voivodeship
DATE OF DEATH	January 28, 2007