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Contralto taking on fresh challenge in 'Il Trovatore'
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Contralto taking on fresh challenge in 'Il Trovatore'
Ewa Podles, a leading international concert and opera contralto,
will make her Milwaukee debut Saturday, courtesy of the Florentine
Opera. She will sing the weighty role of Azucena, the old gypsy whose
desire for revenge piles tragedy upon tragedy in Verdi's "Il
Trovatore."
Podles and her husband, pianist / music professor Jerzy
Marchwinski, are ensconced in a sunny east side apartment for their
four-week stay in Milwaukee. It is their first visit.
"I like it here, it almost doesn't feel like I'm in the U.S.," she
said, through her Polish ...
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