Music: Diva in town

This week music lovers will have the opportunity to listen to Gwendolyn Bradley, one of the world's most famous opera singers.

As described by the New York Times: "The singer's attraction lies in her agility and trueness of pitch but more importantly in a tasteful musicality and concentrated intensity of purpose." More simply, the paper acclaimed her "charming voice and splendid stage presence." The American singer's abilities have opened doors to all the most important operatic and symphonic stages in the world and she has performed in Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Vienna, Madrid and Berlin. 

Gwendolyn Bradley debuted in 1976 as Nannetta in Verdi's opera Falstaff. For nine years she was a soprano soloist at New York's Metropolitan Opera, where she sang such roles as the Fiakermilli in Arabella, Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Gilda in Rigoletto, Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Olympia in Le Conte d'Hoffman, the title role of Stravinsky's Le Rossignol and Clara in Porgy and Bess. Then she conquered the public in Berlin as a member of the Deutsche Opera Berlin. Besides being an opera singer, she is also a concert singer with an expansive repertoire ranging from Baroque works to 20th Century compositions.

This week she will give two concerts in Poland: the first on February 7 in the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz, the second on February 10 in Warsaw's Teatr Wielki during the Business Centre Club's annual gala. The singer, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Pomeranian Philharmonic conducted by Janusz Powolny, will perform arias from popular operas, operettas and musicals, as well as Negro spirituals.