Tadeusz Leliwa
19 July 1875 Teplyk (Ukraine) – 19 November 1929 Warsaw
Tadeusz Leliwa was born Wincenty Tadeusz Kopystyński. In Italy, he sang under the name Enzo Leliva.
Leliwa studied medicine at the Kiev university and law at the Warsaw university. Simultaneously, he studied singing with
Ekaterina Massini in Kiev and with W. Aleksandrowicz in Warsaw, then in Paris with Jean de Reszke and in Milano with Augusto Brogi.
Ekaterina Massini, 1838–1912; she sang in Odessa (1868–74), Kiev (1874–76), Moscow (Bolshoj, 1876–81), and for
the 1878/79 season, she went on tour to Kazan with Medvedev's company. That she sang at La Scala in 1866 is an unfounded rumor.
At the beginning of his career, Leliwa was a soloist of the Lysenko choir in Kiev.
He made his stage debut in Saratov (1901), then sang in Kiev (1902–04, tour 1907–09, 1910–12, 1915–19),
Warsaw (1902–04 upon recommendation of the violinist Stanislaw Barcewicz, making his
debut as Radames, appearing also as German, Mazepa (Mazepa by Adam Münchheimer), Duca, Chopin, Jontek, and again in
1914), Lemberg/Lviv), Vilnius (during his Warsaw period), Torino (Regio, 1904 as Mylio on invitation by Leoncavallo who had
heard him in Warsaw), Napoli (San Carlo, 1905), Palermo, Genova (Carlo Felice, 1905 and 1913), Milano (Teatro Lirico, 1905, as Jontek; La
Scala, 1907/08, as Raoul and Radames), Saint Petersburg (Novaja Opera, as Enzo and José), Ciudad de Mexico (1907), Odesa
(as a guest from 1907 to 1909), Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon, Buenos Aires (1908), Covent Garden (1909, as Pinkerton and Canio), Boston
(1909, as Turiddu and Alfredo), Chicago, New York (1909), Tbilisi (1910/11), Krakow and Bologna.
He came back to Warsaw at the beginning of the First World War and sang mostly concerts in Warsaw and Kiev. He sang for the last time
in 1919 as Jontek in Kiev. Because of deafness, he had to stop singing.
He possessed a sonorous voice with a beautiful timbre, good dramatic skills, excellent mezza voce and theatrical temperament.
His repertory also included: Henning Mollner (Der Roland von Berlin, Italian premiere, 19 January 1905 in Genova),
Sobinin, Fernando, Riccardo or Samson.
1922 to 1929, Leliwa taught singing at the Warsaw conservatory.
His records are rare, the Odeons almost unknown.
Reference: Arkadij Pruzhanskij, Otechestvennye pevtsy 1750–1917, vol. 1, Moscow 1991
In RA format
In RA format
| Tadeusz Leliwa sings | O nie kuś mnie (= Ne iskushaj menja bez nuzhdy) (Glinka), with Hanna Skwarecka
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In RA format
| Tadeusz Leliwa sings | Chopin (Orefice): Sera ineffabile, with Irene de Bohuss
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Many thanks to Anton Bieber for the Chopin recording.
I wish to thank Richard J Venezia for the recording (Ballo).
I wish to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the recordings (Halka 2, Huguenots, Tosca).
Discography
Gramophone, Warszawa, December 1902
653C Song of the flute (Myszyńska) 22200
654C A dream (Prelude in A) (Chopin) 22201
437z Sancta Maria (Faure) 2-22506
438z Huguenots (Meyerbeer): Plus blanche 2-22507
Columbia, Warszawa, 1903
35244 Rigoletto (Verdi): La donna è mobile 35244
35246 Mazepa (Münchheimer): Serenada 35246
35247 Trovatore (Verdi): Miserere 35247
35248 Halka (Moniuszko): Szumią jodły 35248
35249 Traviata (Verdi): Libiamo, libiamo 35249
35261 Africaine (Meyerbeer): Ô paradis (in Polish) 35261
35262 Carmen (Bizet): Il fior che avevi a me tu dato 35262
Fonotipia, Milano, October 1904
xPh46 Bohème (Leoncavallo): Testa adorata unpublished
xPh47 Huguenots (Meyerbeer): Bianca al par unpublished
Fonotipia, Milano, November 1904
xPh70 Favorita (Donizetti): Una vergine, un angiol di Dio unpublished
xPh71 Favorita (Donizetti): Spirto gentil unpublished
xPh76 Chopin (Orefice): Sì, date fiori (piano: Orefice) 39033
xPh77 Chopin (Orefice): Tak, gloscie chwale (piano: Orefice) 39034
xPh78 Notte ha steso (Leoncavallo) 39040
xPh79 Chopin (Orefice): Kolysanka (w. Luce) (piano: Orefice) 39118
Fonotipia, Milano, December 1904
xPh104 Chopin (Orefice): Io sono un fior esala (piano: Orefice) 39073
xPh105 Chopin (Orefice): Sera ineffabile (w. de Bohuss) (piano: Orefice) 39119, PO125
xPh106 Chopin (Orefice): Grazia, mia dolce bimba (w. de Bohuss) (piano: Orefice) unpublished
xPh107 Rolando di Berlino (Leoncavallo): Io sono il re della ballata 39061
xPh119 O nie kuś mnie (Glinka) (w. Skwarecka) Odeon 97628
xPh121? Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod) Odeon 94056
Fonotipia, Milano, February 1905
Ph130 Rolando di Berlino (Leoncavallo): Per quella legge che il debole oppresso 9005
xPh131 I Medici (Leoncavallo): È il foco della lucciola unpublished
xPh132 Bohème (Leoncavallo): Testa adorata unpublished
xPh133 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Perdona a me unpublished
xPh134 Huguenots (Meyerbeer): Ah! dillo ancora unpublished
xPh135 Ancora (Tosti) unpublished
xPh142 Krakowiaczek (Moniuszko) 39133
xPh143 Aida (Verdi): Celeste Aida unpublished
xPh146 Fiori di campo (De Leva) 39132
xPh147 Pagliacci (Leoncavallo): Vesti la giubba unpublished
xPh148 Stelle cadenti (De Leva) unpublished
xPh148-2 Stelle cadenti (De Leva) 39126
Fonotipia, Milano, 11 December 1906
xPh2272 Manru (Paderewski): Come al sol cocente 39929
xPh2273 Ancora (Tosti) 39923
xPh2274 I Medici (Leoncavallo): È il foco della lucciola unpublished
xPh2275 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Perdona a me 39928
xPh2276 Bohème (Leoncavallo): Testa adorata 39891
Fonotipia, Milano, 12 December 1906
xPh2277 Figlia di Jorio (Franchetti): Rinverdisca per noi 39927
xPh2278 Huguenots (Meyerbeer): Bianca al par 39926
Gramophone, Warszawa, 1908
7021L Aida (Verdi): Celeste Aida 1880
7022L Halka (Moniuszko): Szumią jodły 3-22790, 1880, Vic 69518
7023L Huguenots (Meyerbeer): Sous le beau ciel 3-22791
7024L Aida (Verdi): Celeste Aida (in Polish) 3-22789
7030L Mazepa (Chajkovskij): Molodushka, moloda 3-22792
7032L Huguenots (Meyerbeer): Plus blanche (in Polish) 3-22794
7034L Ballo in maschera (Verdi): Ma se m'è forza perderti (in Polish) 3-22793
7082L Chopin (Orefice): Nocturne (w. Korolewicz-Waydowa) 2-24031
7083L Aida (Verdi): Pur ti riveggo (w. Korolewicz-Waydowa) 2-24032
324m Juive (Halévy): Rachelo, kiedy Pan 022118
Fonotipia, Milano, 7 November 1908
xPh3608 Lohengrin (Wagner): Prova maggior 92413
xPh3609 Juive (Halévy): Rachele, allor che Iddio 92410
xPh3610 Aida (Verdi): Celeste Aida unpublished
xPh3611 Aida (Verdi): Se quel guerrier io fossi unpublished
xPh3612 Lohengrin (Wagner): Di', non t'incantan 92412
Fonotipia, Milano, 13 November 1908
xPh3635 Otello (Verdi): Ora e per sempre addio unpublished
Fonotipia, Milano, 14 November 1908
xPh3636 Otello (Verdi): Niun mi tema unpublished
Fonotipia, Milano, 25 November 1908
xPh3676 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Prosti, nebesnoe sozdanye 92417
xPh3677 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Perdona a me unpublished
Fonotipia, Milano, 30 November 1908
xPh3698 La notte (Rubinstein) 62364
xPh3699 Cantami una canzone (Dłuski) 62365
xPh3700 Aida (Verdi): Già i sacerdoti, pt. 1 (w. Petri) unpublished
xPh3701 Aida (Verdi): Già i sacerdoti, pt. 2 (w. Petri) unpublished
xPh3702 Trovatore (Verdi): Ai nostri monti (w. Petri) unpublished
Fonotipia, Milano, 1 December 1908
xPh3705 L'addio (Lysenko) unpublished
xPh3706 Se il giorno è chiaro (Chajkovskij) unpublished
xPh3707 Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner): Dall'alba tinto 92413
Fonotipia, Milano, 3 December 1908
xPh3724 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Ma se il tuo cuore 92416
xPh3725 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Esli kogda-nibud znali 92420
xPh3727 Ballo in maschera (Verdi): Ma se m'è forza perderti 92411
Fonotipia, Milano, 4 December 1908
xPh3738 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Mistero è il nome suo 92414
xPh3741 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Ja imeni ejo ne znaju 92418
Fonotipia, Milano, 5 December 1908
xPh3742 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Cos'è la vita? 92415
xPh3743 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Chto nasha zhizn? 92419
Pathé, St. Petersburg, about July 1909
24577 I am still alone (?) 24577
24578 Autumn (?) 24578
24580 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Prosti, nebesnoe sozdanye 24580
24582 Noch (Chajkovskij) 24582
24583 Pikovaja dama (Chajkovskij): Chto nasha zhizn? 24583
24584 Strashnaja minuta (Chajkovskij) 24584
24585 Evgenij Onegin (Chajkovskij): Ja ljublju vas, Olga 24585
24587 Den-li tsarit (Chajkovskij) 24587
RAOG, St. Petersburg, 1910 (?)
9049 Wisla (Nowowiejski) 9049
9050 Kocham cię (Rutkowski) 9050
9180 Juive (Halevy): Io t'imploro (w. Didur) 9180
9188 Aida (Verdi): Nume, custode e vindice (w. Didur) 9188
Odeon, Warszawa, 1912 (?)
Ro486 Pagliacci (Leoncavallo): Vesti la giubba (in Russian) 12002
Ro488 Tosca (Puccini): E lucevan le stelle (in Russian) 12001
Ro490 Elisir d'amore (Donizetti): Una furtiva lagrima 12001
Odeon, place and date unknown
Halka (Moniuszko): Szumią jodły 304173
RAOG, St. Petersburg, 1914 or 1916
10385 Noch (Chajkovskij) 10385
10388 Ne ljubish bolshe pri (?) 10388
Reference 1: Gesellschaft für historische Tonträger, Wien; reference 2: Russian Records
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