Ewa Malas-Godlewska - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Ewa Małas-Godlewska is a Polish Soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

, residing in France. Her voice is a Lyric coloratura soprano
Coloratura soprano
A coloratura soprano is a type of operatic soprano who specializes in music that is distinguished by agile runs and leaps. The term coloratura refers to the elaborate ornamentation of a melody, which is a typical component of the music written for this voice...

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Malas is an accomplished opera singer, graduated from the Wroclaw PWSM. Malas is noted for her unique interpretation of Baroque music.

Of all her many appearances, the most obvious one is her contributed voice on the soundtrack of the 1994

1994 in film

1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

film Farinelli
Farinelli (film)
Farinelli is a 1994 biographical film about the life and career of the Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time...

. For the film she identified herself as Ewa Mallas-Godlewska. Her voice was electronically blended with that of countertenor Derek Lee Ragin

Derek Lee Ragin

Derek Lee Ragin is an American countertenor.Ragin studied as a piano major at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. While at Oberlin he took secondary voice lessons with Richard Anderson. He began his operatic career at Oberlin in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon...

to recreate the famous castrato

Castrato

A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinological condition, never reaches sexual maturity.Castration before puberty prevents a boy's...

's voice. The only non-blended recording of Malas on the Farinelli soundtrack is Lascia Ch'io Pianga
Lascia ch'io pianga
Lascia ch'io pianga is a soprano aria by composer George Frideric Handel which has become a popular concert piece. The melody for the song began its life as an Asian dance in his 1705 opera Almira. As an aria the piece was first used in Handel's 1707 oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno;...

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Performances

Norina in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale", Warsaw Chamber Opera
Rosina in "iIl Barbiere di Siviglia", Warsaw Chamber Opera
Queen of the Night in Mozart's "Magic Flute" production by Bob Wilson, Paris Opera, L'Opera Comique, Le Theatre du Chatelet, Le Theatre des Champs Elysees, Des Amandiers Theatre in Nanterre and Parisian Bastille Opera, the Houston Grand Opera in Texas
Antonida in Glinka's "Ivan Susanin"
Celia in Mozart's "Lucio Silla"
Adina in "Elisir d'Amore"
Haendel's Alcina
Stravinsky's Le Rossignol
Massenet's Manon
Madleine in "Postillon de Lonjumeau"
Olympia in "The Tales of Hoffmann"
Marie in Donizzetti's "La Figlia del Reggimento"
Adine in Donizetti's "Elisir d'Amore", the New York Metropolitan Opera
Marie in "La Figlia del Reggimento", the New York Metropolitan Opera
Heroine in "Lucia di Lammermoor", the New York Metropolitan Opera
Heroine in Rossini's "Semiramide", the Metropolitan Opera's musical tour of Japan
Heroine in Gounod's production of the "Romeo and Juliet", the Metropolitan Opera's musical tour of Japan
Celia in the production of "Lucio Silla" by director Patrice Chareau and conductor Sylvain Cambreling, the Theatre des Amandiers in Nanterre in Paris
"La Fée" in Massenet's "Cendrillon" directed by Bruno Campanella and Robert Carsen, the Turin's Teatro Regio
Debussy's "Le Martyre de St. Sebastien" cast by Georges Pretre
Stravinsky's "Nightingale" (Le Rossignol) staged by Pierre Boulez, with the BBC Orchestra
Sang arias of R. Strauss, G. Puccini, G. Verdi, V. Bellini, Ch. Gounod and C. Graun together with Jose Cura, Warsaw National Theatre
Debussy's "Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien" conducted by Lorin Maazel
R. Strauss's "Last Four Songs"
Armida in the recording of the N. Jommelli's opera "Armida Abbandonata
Armida abbandonata
Armida Abbandonata is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Niccolò Jommelli. The libretto, by Francesco Saverio De Rogatis, is based on the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples on 30 May 1770. The young Wolfgang...

", directed by Christophe Rousset.

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