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Didur, Ewa (EN)

Biography

Didur Ewa, married name Abbove, *1896, †?, singer (soprano). She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1918 (as Margherita in Mefistofele by A. Boito, as Eva in Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [“The Master-Singers of Nuremberg”]). From 1922, she appeared at La Scala in Milan and as a guest artist at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw (as Mimi in Puccini’s La bohème) and at the Lviv Opera.

Literature: L. de Noskowski Adamo Didur, “Record Collector” XVI, 1966 (includes a discography); W. Panek Kariery i legendy, szkice o artystach polskiej sceny muzycznej, 2nd collection, Warsaw 1988; J. Kański Mistrzowie sceny operowej, Krakow 1998.