ADAM DIDUR POLISH SINGLEWAK, 1 OF THE HIGHEST BASES OF THE 19th and 20th centuries.
Adam Didur was born on 24 December 1874 in Wola Sękowa, on 7 January 1946 in Katowice – a Polish singer; 1 of the best basses of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
He was the illegitimate boy of Vincenta Jasińska (born 1848) and (according to the oldest daughter) landowner James Viktor of the coat of arms Brochewicz (1814-1887), owner of the court property in Wola Sękowa. His parent was the daughter of Joseph (forestist from Wola Sękowa close Sanok) and Karolina Terlecka, granddaughter of Barbara Potocka of Wieliczka. According to various accounts 2 years after the birth of her son, Jasińska married (6 February 1876, in the church of St Nicholas in Nowotanec) for the local organist of the Greek Catholic religion Antoni Didur (born 1852), boy of Prokop (Ukrainian from the village of Siechów in the St. For the first time, Adam Jasiński was baptized in infancy in the local Greek Catholic church of St. Michael the Archangel in Wola Sękowa. For the second time, according to the metric found by the daughter after her father's death, in the Roman Catholic church in Stryj at the age of 11, on 1 January 1885.
After graduating from junior advanced in 1911, he left for Lviv, started teaching at the Teacher's Seminary and joined the student choir at the University of Lviv. At the age of 18, he began singing lessons at Walery Wysocki in the Galician Music Society in Lviv. Thanks to a scholarship of singing lover delighted with his voice (founded by a modest railway authoritative Jan Rasp), he went to further music studies in Italy. He began his opera career in 1894 on the phase of the theatre in Pinerolo close Turin in the organization of the Father Guardian in the Powers of Destiny of Giuseppe Verdi. He frequently performed on the phase of the Lviv Grand Theatre, in Lviv he besides taught at the Galician Music Society. He besides sang on another Italian scenes, then in Alexandria and Cairo, where he was successful, among others in Aida Verdi and Hugonots Meyerbeer. He was invited to participate in Beethoven's 9th Symphony with the La Scala band. He later sang in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. During the 1898/99 period he sang on the phase of the Messyna theatre. From 1899 to 1903, he was a regular soloist of the Warsaw Opera, and from 1903 to 06 he sang again in the Milanese La Scala. On 14 November 1908, he made his debut for the title function in the opera Arriga Boita Mefistopheles on the phase of the fresh York Manhattan Opera, and 2 days later, at the beginning of the period at the Metropolitan Opera in Aida Verdi. There he sang the Ramfis organization in different company: the title organization was sung by Emmy Destinn, the function of Amneris starred by Louise Homer, Radames was Enrico Caruso, father of Aida (Amonastro – King of Ethiopia) – Antonio Scotti, and the full performance was conducted by the debuting Metropolitan Opera Arturo Toscanini. Leaving behind in 1914, the soloist of the fresh York Metropolitan Opera (MET) did not quit his European career. On stage, he performed 729 times and had 182 appearances with the MET band in another American theatres.
He besides gained publicity in Russia, where he performed many times. His fame did not even cloud the performances of the large Fyodor Shalapin.
In 1932 he withdrew from the phase and returned to the country sacrificing his teaching work. In the 1930s, he was an opera class prof. in Lviv. He was, among others, the explorer and artistic guardian of Victoria Calma. In 1936, he incarnated himself as George Gil in a feature movie titled American adventure (scenario: Światopelk Karpiński, directed by Ryszard Ordyński), which did not behave to modern times[5]. In the 1930s, he visited the Sękowa household Will, where his father and daughter Olga lived in the local court, whose husband became a associate of the Victorian family. His student was tenor Zdzisław Pręgowski.
After the end of planet War II, he organized the State Silesia Opera in Bytom, where he was its first director.
He had a wonderful voice of an extended scale, allowing him to sing any baritone parties and excellent method and acting temperament. His creations of Boris Godunov in Musorgski's opera, Mephist in Gounoda's Faust and Don Basilia in Rossini's Seville Cyrillic went back to history.
He was buried in a cemetery on French Street in Katowice.
Adam Didur was twice married – for the first time to Angela Aranda-Arelano (1874–1928), a Mexican vocalist from Spain, whom he married in 1895. In 1929 he married French dancer Marguerite Vignon (the union lasted respective years). With Angela Aranda he had 5 daughters: Eve (born 1896, her godfather was Arturo Toscanini), Aniel (born 1898), Olga, Stanislaw (born 1902), Maria (1905–1979, later identity of Mary Didur-Zaluska). 2 of them died as a kid of lung illness (Aniela in 1916, Stanisław in 1918). The another 3 (Ewa, Olga and Mary) were opera singers, among others performing at the Metropolitan Opera. Adam Didur starred with 3 daughters on 16 April 1926 in the Faust opera staged in Lviv (Adam Didur played Mephistofeles, Eve played the function of Margaret, Olga played Martha, and Mary played Siebla). Mary Didur-Zaluska's daughter established biographical data on her father after years, including issues related to his birth.
Aleksander Szumański “Lvivian Meetings”