Adelaide Bolska by Photography of Imperial Theatres in Mariinsky Theatre

ADELAIDE BOLSKA
( Adelajda Bolska)
(b. November 16th 1863 in the province of Podolia, d. September 29 1930 in Tallinn )
Polish Soprano
After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, she continued her studies in Italy, appearing in the Milan theater Dal Verne and and Lodi and participating in concerts under the baton of Charles Lamoureux and Édouard Colonne.

After returning to Russia, on the recommendation of Tchaikovsky began performing in the Moscow Grand Theatre under the name Skąpski. Tchaikovsky intended to be entrusted to the title role in the opera Jolanta .

In Paris, she perfected skills with Caroline MIOLAN-Carvalho. Jules Massenet garnish advised her stage name. Adela chose the pseudonym Adela Bolska referring to the novel by Victor Cherbulieza L'aventure de Ladislas Bolski (1869).

In the year 1896 the persuasion of friends returned to live shows by playing the part of Ophelia at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona . Many of the proposals selected invitation of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.