Who is Who in Central & East Europe 1933

 


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Sári Ada, Cracow ->
She sang as guest in Milan (Scala) under Toscanini in London, Vienna, Paris, Stockholm, Zürich, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Athens and Constantinople. Her main parts are in the operas: Barber of Seville, Rigoletto and Traviata.

Artur Bodanzky, New York ->
Since 1915 he has been with the Metropolitan Opera Association in New York and he has revised editions of "Fidelio", "Freischütz", "Oberon", "Don Giovanni", "Boccaccio", "Donna Juanita", etc.

Dimitric Cuclin, Bucharest ->
gave in 1922 a religious choral concert in which 13 of the most prominent "stars" of the Rumanian Opera formed an exclusive choral ensemble "only to give themselves an opportunity of enjoying music at last".

Ignacy Dygas, Warsaw ->
sings in South America during the season. He started his career as a dramatical tenor in Italy, Spain and South America and he was the first tenor of the Imperial Russian Opera before 1918.

Paraschevas Economou, Athens ->
has been director of the Operetta Troup since 1927 and has played (under his proper name) with his troup in Egypt, Turkey, Abissynia and Cartoum. He has arranged the operettas of Lehár, Kálmán, Strauß, Benatzky for Greek adaptation.

Helmi Einer, Tallinn ->
She was living in Russia up to 1912 and began singing lessons while she was in school. Later in Petersburg, she participated to the Estonian Society circles in Petersburg and also to the performances and concerts of the Estonian and Russian Theaters. In 1912 she was invited to Estonia with the operetta troup of the theater "Estonia" first as a soubrette, than as primadonna. In 1918 there was founded, assisted by her influence, an opera-troup attached to the theater where she was the first singer (primadonna). She was also singing in symphonic concerts and gave her own concerts in Estonia as well as in foreign countries. In 1932 she was nominated teacher of the Estonian State Music High school. Her most famous parts: operettas: Silva, Mariza, Madame Pompadour, Bajadere, Hollandanna; operas: Traviata, Eugen Onegin, Pique Dame, Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Tosca, Bohème. She is fond of agriculture, specially of cultivating gardens and she is a Landed Proprietor in South-Estonia.

Anne (Anne Roselle) Gyenge von Miklosvár, New York City ->
She had her first stage engagement in Budapest and made her Debut as an opera singer in 1921 with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She has sung in the U.S.A. in almost every city and she debuted in Vienna in 1925 as "Butterfly" and created the "Turandot" in 1926 at the Dresden Opera House. She sang later in Berlin, Vienna, Milan, Scala, Verona "Arena", Coventgarden London, Paris Grande Opéra, in Budapest, Belgium, Cairo, Alexandria, Czechoslovakia, etc.

Stanislaw Niewiadomski, Warsaw ->
is the Conductor of the Choir of the Polish War Refugees in Vienna. He himself appreciates as his highest distinction the appreciation and praise of Mr. Paderewski at the occasion of his jubilee in 1927, where he praised him as a master of songs, as the most conscientious critic and also for the high moral standing of his life.

Münir Nurettin, Istanboul ->
Sings for films and for gramophone records (His Masters Voice). He gives 5 concerts each year, sings for the radio and gives singing lessons. He sings only Turkish music.

Vilis Pludons, Riga ->
is the author of the 2nd National Hymn: "This Country is ours". The whole Latvian people sings his poem "Requiem" and his patriotic songs united the Latvians in their politically fatal moments.

Catherine Reiner, New York City ->
introduced Alban Berg's "Wozzeck" in concert form with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski in 1930.