Description

JANINA KOROLEWICZ–WAYDA (WAYDOWA, GIANNINA WAYDA) (WARSAW, 3 JANUARY, 1875 – WARSAW, 20 JUNE, 1955)

 

 

 

 

Like many other Polish singers, she studied with Professor Wysocki in the Conservatory of Lwow and, in 1893, began a brilliant career at the Warsaw Opera. She travelled widely: Covent Garden (Autumn seasons 1904 and 1906), Chicago (November and December 1910) and, having shared with Nellie Melba the performances of the role of Marguerite in Faust at Covent Garden, she was chosen to participate in the 1911 tour of Australia which Mme Melba organized with one of the leading Melbourne impressarios. There were excellent singers in the company, including John McCormack and Eleonora de Cisneros as well as Mme Wayda and the diva herself, and the tour was a great success despite internal quarrels of all kinds. She was twice director of the Warsaw Opera: 1917-19 and 1934- 36. She had a repertoire of over seventy operas, beginning with the coloratura roles of her youth and continuing into the repertoire of the dramatic soprano: Aida, Elisabeth (Tannhauser) and Briinnhilde, as well as a large concert and oratorio repertoire.

 

Chronology of some appearances

 

1911 Sidney Her Majestic’s Lohengrin (Elsa)

1911 Sidney Her Majestic’s Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton)

1911 Sidney Her Majestic’s Tosca (Tosca)

 

TRACKLIST

 

  

1. Aida (Verdi) Nile duet (w. Leliwa) 2-24032 7083L Gramophone, Warszawa 1908
2. Aida (Verdi) Ritorna vincitor! 023039 326m Gramophone, Warszawa 1908
3. Ave Maria (Gounod) 26665 Pathé, Warszawa 1906
4. Ballo in maschera (Verdi) Aria 13275 Syrena
5. Chopin (Orefice) Duet (w. Leliwa) 2-24031 7082L Gramophone, Warszawa 1908
6. Faust (Gounod) Air des bijoux 023037 321m G&T, 1908
7. Faust (Gounod) Air des bijoux 13237 Syrena
8. Faust (Gounod) Air des bijoux White Label Unpubl.
9. Flis (The Raftsman) Dumka (Reverie) 23212 1880g Berliner, 1901
10. Halka (Moniuszko) Act II If I were the morning sun 23209 1819g Berliner, 1901
11. Halka (Moniuszko) Gdyby rannym sonkiem 1-76530 Favorite
12. Halka (Moniuszko) Gdyby rannym sonkiem 13277 1176 Syrena
13. Halka (Moniuszko) Like the shrub in the whirlwind 2-23323 7018L Gramophone, Warszawa 1908
14. Halka (Moniuszko) O Moj Malenki 1-76533 Favorite
15. Halka (Moniuszko) Thus from the gate 2-23323 7018L Gramophone, Warszawa 1908
16. Hrabina (Moniuszko) Bronia’s Aria with Orchestra White Label Unpubl.
17. Hrabina (Moniuszko) Bronia’s Aria with Piano 1-76528 Favorite