PODLES, EWA (b 1952 )

With her distinctive, dramatic voice of staggering range, agility and amplitude, Ewa Podleś is widely regarded as the world's foremost contralto. Her engagements have included appearances in leading opera houses and concert venues throughout North America and Europe. In addition to her rigorous operatic calendar she is a highly acclaimed recital and concert performer and has performed in the major art-song series of Cleveland, Atlanta, St Paul, Chicago, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Toronto, Moscow, Warsaw, Montreal, San Juan, Québec and New York. Festival invitations include New York's Bard Festival, Aix-en-Provence, Flanders, Montpellier and Lanaudière. Her many collaborations with Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre include two Deutsche Grammophon recordings, Handel's Ariodante and Gluck's Armide, and for Naxos she took the leading rôle in Rossini's Tancredi (8.660183-84) and recorded a programme of Rossini opera arias (8.553543).

Albums featuring this artist are available for download from ClassicsOnline.com
Art & Music: Goya - Music of His Time	8.558178
BEST OF OPERA II	8.571080
BEST OF OPERA, VOL. 4	8.554682
Discover Music of the Romantic Era	8.558155-56
DISCOVER THE SYMPHONY (2008 edition)	8.558208-09
DONIZETTI, G.: Fille du Regiment (La) (La Scala, 1996) (NTSC)	107107
HANDEL: Giulio Cesare (NTSC)	DVWW-OPGCES
KLASSISKT A-O (The A to Z of Classical Music)	8.553362
MAHLER: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 10	8.550525-26
Music for Kids CD 7: Music from Planet Earth	8.558020
O MIO BABBINO CARO - FAMOUS SOPRANO ARIAS FROM ITALIAN OPERA	8.555796
PONCHIELLI: Gioconda (La) (Liceu, 2005) (NTSC)	DVWW-OPGIOC
PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky / Lieutenant Kije Suite	8.557725
ROSSINI (THE BEST OF)	8.556683
ROSSINI: Arias for Contralto	8.553543
ROSSINI: Tancredi	8.660037-38