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. Hrabina (Moniuszko) Piosnka Broni – Gdy mi kto wspomni Moniuszko 23210 1820B Berliner, 1901
2. Hrabina (Moniuszko) Piosnka XL 0109 b Muz
3. Jako od wichru krzew połamany (Moniuszko) 76529 Beka
4. Juive (Halévy) Arya Racheli 26661 Pathé, Warszawa 1906
5. Juive (Halévy) Il va venir 13272 Syrena
6. La Juive (Halevy) Pour lui pour moi mon pere 1-76532, Mx. 4237-0 Favorite, 1906
7. Lohengrin (Wagner) Aurette a lui si spesso (Ge) 15638 1970-K Nicole, London 1904
8. Madame Butterfly (Puccini) Arya 13276 1176 Syrena
9. Przadka (Przasniczka) Piosnka Moniuszko 23214 1882g Berliner, 1901
10. Rosa Kalina (Komorowski) 23149 495 x G&T, 1901
11. Sad song (Zarzycki) 23229 1821B G&T, Warszawa, 1901
12. The guelder rose grew (Komorowski) 2-23328 7085L Gramophone, Warszawa 1908
13. Tosca (Puccini) Vissi d’arte 13274 Syrena
14. Tosca (Puccini) Vissi d’arte 15635 1965-M Nicole, London 1904
15. Verbum nobile (Moniuszko)Dumka (Reverie) 23215 1883g Berliner, 1901
16. Widma (Phantoms) Zosa’s song 23213 1881g Berliner, 1901
17. Znaszli ten kraj (Do You Know Such Land) (Moniuszko) 1-76531 Favorite, Warsaw
18. Znaszli ten kraj (Do You Know Such Land) (Moniuszko) 23216 1884g Berliner, 1901