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Didur, Mary (EN)

Biography and Literature

Didur-Załuska Mary, Maria, *27 April 1905 Milan, †21 May 1979 Katowice, singer (soprano). She performed in Krakow in 1923–1924 (as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust) and in 1933 (as Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème), then sang mainly operetta roles in Krakow and Warsaw (1937), at the Poznań Opera House (1937/1938), in Lviv (1938/1939) and from 1945 again in Poznan, where she celebrated her 40th artistic anniversary in 1965 where she celebrated her 40th artistic anniversary in 1965 (Mrs. Higgins F. Loewe’s My Fair Lady).

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.