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| | Podles Ewa | | mezzosoprano |   
| Beyond a distinctive voice of staggering range, agility and amplitude, the Polish contralto Ewa Podles sings with profound emotional commitment and a lieder singer's sensitivity to text. As comfortable with Mahler and Prokofiev as the breathtakingly florid music of Gluck, Händel, Vivaldi and Rossini, she is a true original, a "Golden Age" singer for our time. |
| In 1999-2000 season she includes performances of Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with the Philadelphia Orchestra (one at the Carnegie Hall in New York), of the Schönberg chamber orchestra version of this same work with Bernardi conducting Ottawa's National Arts Centre Orchestra, of Kindertotenlieder with Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra, and of Third Symphony with Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she performs Alexander Nevsky with the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, she offers her celebrated Rossini Arias for Contralto program with the Midland Symphony and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at the San Francisco Opera House, and Handel's Messiah with the Ann Arbor Symphony, and she gives recitals at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw as well as in Montreal, Philadelphia and New York. Opera engagements that season include the title role of Handel's Giulio Cesare in Oviedo, her first-ever Baba the Turk in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress at the Teatro Bellini in Catania, and the title role of Rossini's Tancredi in Warsaw. |
| The preceding season's highlights included a hugely successful European tour (Paris, Birmingham, Vienna, Amsterdam) in the title role of Handel's Rinaldo with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music, an unanimously acclaimed North American recital tour (including Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Toronto, Ann Arbor, and Lincoln Center), Alexander Nevsky with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Libor Pesek, a virtuosic baroque program with Québec's «Les Violons du Roy» under Bernard Labadie, the Rossini Arias for Contralto program with the Edmonton Symphony and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra (the latter her Carnegie Hall debut), Berlioz' La mort de Cléopâtre and arias from the Berlioz's version of Gluck's Orphée with Charles Dutoit and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and Handel's Alcina (Bradamante) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. Ewa Podles sang also Rossini's Tancredi at the Teatro alla Scala and the Berliner Staatsoper (and on the Grammy-nominated Naxos recording), Semiramide at the Teatro La Fenice in Venezia, Handel's Rinaldo at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the role of Dalila in Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, and of Ulrica in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera at the Teatro Reál in Madrid. She has portrayed principal roles at the Frankfurt Alte Oper, Deutsche Oper in Berlin, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, Warsaw's National Theatre, the Rome, Budapest and Vancouver Operas. |
| Upcoming new roles include Mistress Quickly in Falstaff at the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin, Erda in the Dallas Opera's Siegfried, and Azucena in the Toledo Opera's Il trovatore. In addition she appeared at the Aix-en-Provence, Flanders and Montpellier Festivals, Festival International de Lanaudière, and she collaborated with the Pittsburgh and NHK Tokyo Symphonies, Hong Kong and Dresden Philharmonics, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and National Orchestra of Spain, under such conductors as David Atherton, Myung-Whun Chung, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Armin Jordan, Lorin Maazel, Peter Maag. |
| Her many collaborations with Marc Minkowski and «Les Musiciens du Louvre» includes the Deutsche Grammophon recordings Handel's Ariodante (winner of the coveted Diapason d'Or) and Gluck's Armide. Other recent issues include a treasury of Polish Songs with pianist Ewa Pobocka, Respighi's Il Tramonto, Gluck's Orfeo, Mahler?s Second and Third Symphony, Alexander Nevsky, an unanimously acclaimed all-Rossini disc (awarded by the prestigious «Preis der Deutschen Schallplatten Kritik»), a Mélodies Russes CD with pianist Graham Johnson (awarded by the «Grand Prix de L'Académie Française du Disque»). |
| An altogether riveting recitalist, Ewa Podles has offered programs at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Théâtre de l'Athénée and the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Herbst Theater. Recently she began collaborating with the renowned pianist Garrick Ohlsson, both in recital (Ann Arbor, New York, Québec) and on a forthcoming Arabesque recording of Chopin songs. She will soon perform in Otello in Martina Franca. |
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