Polish contralto Ewa Podleś made her mainstage debut in the title role Julius Caesar in Egypt in 2006 after giving a recital for the Company in 2003 at Sherwood Auditorium. Recent engagements include Mme. de la Haltière in Massenet’s Cinderella for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Opéra-Comique in Paris, Clytemnestra in Elektra for Opéra de Nice, the Canadian Opera Company, and Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa in Warsaw, Azucena in Il trovatore for Teatr Wielki in Poznan and the Atlanta Opera, the Countess in The Queen of Spades at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona and L’Opera de Monte-Carlo, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff in Bilbao, the title role of Tancredi at Opera Boston and the Canadian Opera Company, The Princess in Suor Angelica at San Francisco Opera and La Cieca in La Gioconda at The Metropolitan Opera. Other notable roles include Julius Caesar, Adalgisa in Norma and Erda in The Ring Cycle for Seattle Opera, Julius Caesar and Jocasta in Oedipus Rex for the Canadian Opera Company, Ulrica in A Masked Ball for Houston Grand Opera, and Bertarido in Rodelinda and Erda at The Dallas Opera. Among the orchestras with which she has appeared in concert are the Dresden Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Toronto Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Seattle Symphony and the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami. Her recital programs have been heard in Paris, Amsterdam, London, Toronto, Moscow, Warsaw, Montreal, San Juan, Québec and New York. Among her many recordings are several recital CD’s of Polish songs, Handel, Russian and Rossini arias, and complete operas including Ariodante, Tancredi, Armide and Orfeo ed Euridice.