Helena Modjeska

Helena Modjeska of its true name Helena Opid, actress Polish very famous with the the United States was born with Cracow (Poland) (occupied by Austria) the October 12th, 1844 and dies with Newport Beach the April 8th 1909, where currently a stele engraved in its memory is. His/her father Michal Opid was professor of music in a college and musician. His/her mother was Jozefa Benda was without profession.

Biography

In 1861 Helena Opid (Modrzejewska) starts to work in a company of theater carried out by the actors Konstanty Lobojko and Gustaw Simmayer. For reasons of public relations, Lobojko invents a name of scene Gustav Modrzejewski, and fall in love with Helena. They marry and have two children: Rudolf and Maryla. Helena Opid becomes by alliance Helena Modrzejewska then later in the United States Helena Modjeska. She is a success striking down by interpreting roles of Shakespeare, which oblige it to occur in all Europe, Vienna, Cracow, Poznan where she becomes acquainted with notable of the area Karol Chlapowski , which she marries in Cracow in 1868.

Thanks to this marriage, it meets intellectuals known as, Tytus Chalubinski, Stanisław Witkiewicz, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Adam Chmielowski, Józef Chelmonski, Ignacy janv. Paderewski…. Regarded as the largest Polish actress , in 1876 it leaves with her husband to Anaheim in California. In spite of sound strong accent English, one year after its arrival, it gains its first success with the theater of California, and strong of this success, it travels with its own troop and its own car of railroad, to occur in other theaters like New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington etc In 1880, glory propels it until in the United Kingdom, where it receives ovations, and there goes back in 1881, and 1885 for more than 200 representations.

In 1883 it marries the American citizenship . Between 1889 and 1890 it plays the United States of the comic and dramatic parts with Otis Skinner and Maurice Barrymore.

In 1905, on the initiative of Ignacy Paderewski, it is publicly honoured with the theater with the metropolitan opera with New York City. Modjeska finishes its career in 1907, dies out in 1909 with Newport Beach and is buried, according to its wishes, with the cemetery of Rakowicki with Cracow.

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