Didur, Adam

Didur, Adam [Дідур, Адам], b 24 December 1873 in Volia Senkova, Lisko county, Galicia, d 7 January 1946 in Katowice, Poland. Polish opera singer (bass) of Ukrainian descent. From 1895 to 1899 he was a soloist at La Scala, Milan; from 1908 to 1929 he sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York. For a time during the 1930s he taught singing at the Lysenko Higher Institute of Music of the Lysenko Music Society in Lviv. Among his students were Ira Malaniuk, Ivanna Pryima-Shmerykovska, Teodor Yuskiv, and Yevheniia Zarytska.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]



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