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Teresa Żylis-Gara sings Halka's aria

On August 28, 2021, the great Polish vocal star Teresa Żylis-Gara died in Monaco, at age of 91. She was born in 1930, in Lentvaris, a small Lithuanian town near Vilnius (at that time the town was under Polish rule and called Landwarów). After WWII, when the state borders were redrawn, she with her family were “evacuated” (the Soviet term) or “repatriated” (the Polish term) in a freight car to the Polish town of Łódź where she met the famous vocal teacher and singer Olga Olgina Mackiewicz. Olga Olgina was born in Russia, graduated from the Music Conservatory in St. Petersburg but then the revolution in Russia began with the persecution of “bourgeois” families, which forced her and her mother to flee. Their ordeal (the Polish-Bolshevik war was in full swing) ended in Vilnius where, at the age of 18, she debuted in Vilnius Opera. Her career later expanded to Poland and Europe but after her marriage to a cavalry captain in 1936, she resigned from the stage and settled close to Vilnius. In 1945, Olga Olgina was also “repatriated” to Poland where, in Łódź Music Academy, she came across with Żylis-Gara and they, a teacher and student, spent together nine years. Żylis-Gara’s career got off to a flying start when she won the first prize at the Polish Young Vocal Competition in 1954. In 1956, she made her professional opera debut with the Kraków Opera starring in the title role of Moniuszko's Halka (incidentally, this classic Polish opera was composed and first performed in Vilnius in 1848). Later, she also won important prizes in Toulouse and Munich. She was recognized internationally when she appeared at the Glyndebourne Festival in 1965, in the title role of Der Rosenkavalier alongside Montserrat Caballé. From 1970, she was a long-time member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City where she appeared in leading roles including Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, Puccini's Mimi, Liù, and Manon Lescaut. Żylis-Gara’s was famous for her full-bodied voice of beautiful quality, her repertoire embraced a colossally wide range of music and periods. In 1999, Żylis-Gara came to Lithuania for the first time since leaving for Poland. Following, she returned to her homeland several more times and, during her stay in 2004, she donated a new organ to the Church of Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lentvaris.