Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa

Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa (1875–1955) was a Polish soprano and opera director, the world's first female opera house director.

Life
Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa was born in Warsaw on 3 January 1875 or 22 December 1876, the daughter of Piotr Korolewicz, an official, and Ewa née Teraszkiewicz. She trained under Walery Wysocki at the Lviv Conservatory.

Aged 17,Korolewicz-Waydowa made her debut as Hanna in The Haunted Manor. She sang with the Warsaw Opera from 1898 to 1902, before joining the Berlin Opera. For a season she was at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, and then the Royal Opera in Madrid. She continued performing internationally – in Venice, Bucharest, Odesa, Kyiv, St. Petersburg, Kharkiv, London, New York and Chicago – until 1913, when she returned to Warsaw. She managed the Warsaw Opera from 1917 to 1919 and 1934 to 1936.