Adamo Didur

Adam Didur ( born December 24, 1874 in Sanok, † January 7, 1946 in Katowice ) was a Polish theater director and opera bassist in Bytom.

Singing lessons took Didur in Lviv and Milan, where he made his debut in a concert in Beethoven's 9th Symphony.

His opera debut in Rio de Janeiro in 1894 was followed by appearances in Russia, the Warsaw Opera ( 1899-1903 ) and at La Scala ( 1903-1906 ) and at the Covent Garden Opera London 1905. From 1905 to 1908 he worked in Buenos Aires, made in 1907 as well as a guest appearance in New York.

Making its debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1908, he was the high priest Ramfis in Verdi's Aida, where he became one of the leading bassists of Boris Godunov in Mussorgsky 's opera took over 1913. At the premieres of Puccini's opera La Fanciulla del West and Trittico, but also in the operatic version of Humperdinck's royal children Didur participated and interpreted the bass parts. As Mefistofele in Boito's opera of the same and in the roles of the villains of The Tales of Hoffmann he performed with extraordinary success, but in 1932 went back to Europe to take in Lviv opera directorate, which then foundered.

However Didur was 1945 then director of the Opera in Bytom Śląska whose first Polish staff came in good part from Lviv.

Roles repertoire

Didur sang the bass roles in operas, inter alia, the following:

  • Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele
  • Alexander Borodin Porfirjewitsch: Prince Igor
  • Alberto Franchetti: Germania
  • Charles Gounod: Faust
  • Humperdinck: King Children
  • Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
  • Leoni: L' oracle
  • Pietro Mascagni: Iris, Lodoletta
  • Meyerbeer: Le prophète, Les Huguenots
  • Montemezzi: L' Amore dei tre re
  • Mozart: Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro
  • Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
  • Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d' Hoffmann
  • Ponchielli: La Gioconda
  • Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica, La Bohème, La Fanciulla del West, Tosca
  • Rimsky -Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel
  • Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, L' Italiana in Algeri
  • Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
  • Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, Don Carlo, Falstaff, Rigoletto
  • Wagner: Das Rheingold, Parsifal
  • Weber: Der Freischütz
Bass (voice type) Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) Engelbert Humperdinck Faust (opera) Ruggero Leoncavallo Italo Montemezzi Boris Godunov (opera) Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda (opera) Eugene Onegin (opera) Falstaff (opera) Integrated Authority File
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