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Edita
Edita is a female first name, a form of Edith. It may refer to: * Edita Abdieski (born 1984), Swiss singer * Edita Adlerová (born 1971), Czech opera singer * Edita Aradinović (born 1993), Serbian singer * Edita Brychta (born 1961), English actress *Edita Gruberová (1946–2021), Slovak opera singer * Edita Janeliūnaitė (born 1988), Lithuanian cyclist * Edita Morris (1902–1988), Swedish-American writer and political activist *Edita Piekha (born 1937), Soviet singer *Edita Pučinskaitė (born 1975), Lithuanian cyclist *Edita Raková (born 1978), Slovakian ice hockey player *Edita Šujanová (born 1985), Czech basketball player *Edita Tahiri (born 1956), Kosovar politician * Edita Vilkevičiūtė (born 1988), Lithuanian model See also * Edit (other) * Edyta (other) Edyta may refer to: People * Edyta Bartosiewicz (born 1965), Polish rock singer * Edyta Dzieniszewska (born 1986), Polish sprint canoer * Edyta Geppert (born 1953), popular Polish singer * Edyt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Gruberová
Edita Gruberová (; 23 December 1946 – 18 October 2021) was a Slovak coloratura soprano. She made her stage debut in Bratislava in 1968 as Rosina in Rossini's ''Il barbiere di Siviglia'', and successfully auditioned at the Vienna State Opera the following year, which became her base. She received international recognition for roles such as Mozart's Queen of the Night in ''Die Zauberflöte'' and Zerbinetta in ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' by Richard Strauss. In her later career, she explored heavier roles in the Italian bel canto repertoire, such as the title role in Donizetti's ''Lucia di Lammermoor'', and Elvira in Bellini's ''I puritani''. In 2019, she portrayed Elisabetta in Donizetti's ''Roberto Devereux'', who leaves her throne, concluding a stage career performing leading roles over 51 years. She is remembered as the "" (Slovak Nightingale), and as prima donna assoluta. Early life and education Edita Gruberová was born on 23 December 1946 in Rača, Bratislava, to a German f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Aradinović
Edita Aradinović ( sr-cyr, Едита Арадиновић, ; born 30 June 1993), often simply known as Edita, is a Serbian singer. She rose to fame as the lead vocalist of the pop-folk girl band Ministarke in 2013, before pursuing a solo career five years later. Life and career Aradinović was born and raised in Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia (modern-day Serbia) into a Muslim Albanian family. Her father Isa hails from Medveđa while her mother Florija hails from Suva Reka. Her maternal grandfather moved to Belgrade in the late 1950s. She has noted Albanian as her mother tongue. Her older sister Indira Aradinović, better known as Indy, is also a well-known turbo-folk singer. Her maternal grandmother had a twin sister, who was the mother of icons of Serbian dance music, Đole and Gagi Đogani. Edita developed a passion for music through Serbian turbo-folk and also American jazz music, citing Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin as her biggest influences. Following an unsuccessful au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Vilkevičiūtė
Edita Vilkevičiūtė (born 1 January 1989) is a Lithuanian fashion model. Early life Vilkevičiūtė was born on New Year's Day in 1989. She has a younger sister who is an event planner, her father is a teacher, and her mother is a homemaker. Vilkevičiūtė described her childhood as "simple and perfect" with "a lot of nature around and forests." She learned instruments, played basketball, and rode horses. Career Vilkevičiūtė was on holiday in Palanga when she was encouraged to enter a modeling contest. With her father's permission, she starting working with a local agency and moved to Spain for work. After her discovery, Vilkevičiūtė signed to Women Management's Milan division at the age of 17 years, later, VIVA in Paris in 2006. Her runway debut was at Just Cavalli for the spring/summer 2006 shows in Milan.Edita Vilkevic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Abdieski
Edita Abdieski (born November 14, 1984) is a Swiss pop singer. She rose to fame during the debut series of the German ''X Factor'' show, which she won in November 2010. Early life Abdieski is the eldest child born to a Macedonian Albanian father and a Montenegrin Albanian mother. Raised in Bern alongside three younger siblings, she spent much of her childhood in the Bern borough of Bümpliz-Oberbottigen, where she was enrolled at primary and secondary school. Her father died of cancer in 1992. At eleven, Abdieski became part of her first school band and by the age of thirteen, she began writing songs. After leaving school, she was trained as qualified office employee, but as she hoped to embark on a professional singing career, Abdieski enrolled at the Swiss Musical Academy in Bern – much against the wishes of her mother, who was sceptical about her daughter's ambition, prompting Abdieski to leave home and move into a girls' flat-sharing community in 2002. To fund her acad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Piekha
Edita Piekha (russian: Эди́та Станисла́вовна Пье́ха, ''Edita Stanislavovna Pyekha'', pl, Edyta Piecha, french: Édith-Marie Piecha) is a Soviet and Russian singer and actress of Polish descent. She was the third popular female singer, after Klavdiya Shulzhenko and Sofia Rotaru, to be named a People's Artist of the USSR (1988). Edita Piekha is a well known public activist for humanitarian causes, and is a supporter of orphanages in Russia. Life and career Edita Piekha was born in Noyelles-sous-Lens, France in 1937 to an ethnic Polish family. Her father was Stanisław Piecha, a mining worker, and her mother was Felicja Korolewska. From 1945 to 1955, Edita Piekha lived in Boguszów, Poland with her mother and stepfather. There, she studied music, sang with a choir, and excelled in Russian at her school, graduating at the top of her class. In 1955, Piekha moved to Leningrad to study psychology on a state scholarship. From 1955 to 1957, she attended A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Morris
Edith (Edita) Dagmar Emilia Morris, born ''Toll'' (5 March 1902 – 15 March 1988) was a Swedish-American writer and political activist. Biography Edita Morris was born in Örebro in Sweden. Her parents were Reinhold Toll, an agronomist who had published books on dairy and cattle farming, and Alma Prom-Möller. The Toll family was well known in Sweden. Her grandfather was a general. She grew up in Stockholm as the youngest of four sisters. When she was still a child her father left the family and emigrated to England. In 1925, she married the journalist and writer Ira Victor Morris (1903–1972), whose father, Ira Nelson Morris, served as the US envoy in Stockholm; and whose grandfather, Nelson Morris, was the founder of the Chicago meatpacking firm, Morris & Company. He gave them a manor house in the small village of Nesles-la-Gilberde, 60 kilometers outside Paris. Ira and Edita had several homes and traveled widely throughout the world. They spent the Second World W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Tahiri
Edita Tahiri (born 29 July 1956) is a leader of the independence of Kosovo, the former deputy prime minister, minister of foreign affairs and peace negotiator. She was also minister for dialogue, minister of public administration and member of parliament in five terms. She was the chief negotiator of the Republic of Kosovo for seven years (2011-2017) in the EU facilitated dialogue, with US support, on normalization of neighborly relations with Serbia. , She was the Deputy Prime minister responsible for foreign policy and national security (2011–2014). She was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo for ten years in difficult time of liberation and independence of Kosovo (1991–2000). She is a signer of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Kosovo, on 17 February 2008. She is the President of reformist party, the Democratic Alternative of Kosovo (ADK) and Chair of the Regional Women's Lobby in Southeastern Europe (RWLSEE). She is member of the Women Waging Peace N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Janeliūnaitė
Edita Janeliūnaitė (born 16 December 1988) is a road cyclist from Lithuania. She participated at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships, 2011 UCI Road World Championships and 2012 UCI Road World Championships The 2012 UCI Road World Championships took place in the southern part of the Dutch province of Limburg, also known as South Limburg, between September 15 and 23. The event consisted of a road race and a time trial for men, women and men under 2 .... References 1988 births Lithuanian female cyclists Living people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Lithuania-cycling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Pučinskaitė
Edita Pučinskaitė (born November 27, 1975 in Naujoji Akmenė) is a Lithuanian racing cyclist. For many years, she was one of the top competitors in women's road racing with a victory in the World Road Race Championships in 1999 and several high finishes in major tours, world championships and the UCI points listings. Major results ;1994 : 1st Overall Etoile Vosgienne ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Anneville-sur-Scie Road Race ;1995 : 3rd Road Race, UCI Road World Championships ;1996 : 2nd Vertemate con Minoprio : 8th Road Race, UCI Road World Championships : 9th Trofeo Alfredo Binda ;1997 : 1st Liberty Classic : 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia Femminile : 4th Vertemate con Minoprio ;1998 : National Road Championships ::1st Road Race ::1st Time Trial : 1st Overall Grande Boucle Féminine Internationale ::1st Stages 1, 3 & 4 : 1st Overall Thüringen-Rundfahrt der Frauen ;1999 : UCI Road World Championships ::1st Road Race ::3rd Time Trial : 1st Time Trial, National Road Champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith
Edith is a feminine given name derived from the Old English words ēad, meaning 'riches or blessed', and is in common usage in this form in English, German, many Scandinavian languages and Dutch. Its French form is Édith. Contractions and variations of this name include Ditte, Dita, and Edie. It was a common first name prior to the 16th century, when it fell out of favour. It became popular again at the beginning of the 19th century, and in 2016 it was ranked at 488th most popular female name in the United States, according to the Social Security online database. It became far less common as a name for children by the late 20th century. The name Edith has five name days: May 14 in Estonia, January 13 in the Czech Republic, October 31 in Sweden, July 5 in Latvia, and September 16 in France, Hungary, Poland and Lithuania. Edith * Edith of Polesworth (died c. 960), abbess *Edith of Wessex (1025–1075), Queen of England * Edith of Wilton (961–984), English nun *Edith the F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Adlerová
Edita Adlerová (born 27 August 1971) is a Czech classical mezzo-soprano who has been active in operas, concerts, and recitals since the early 1990s. She is the recipient of the Czech Music Fund Award. Biography Born in Pardubice, Adlerová studied singing at the Pardubice Conservatoire, earning a degree in vocal performance in 1991. Shortly after she graduated, Adlerová made her professional opera debut at the Pilsen Opera in the title role of Georges Bizet's ''Carmen''. Only nineteen years old at the time, she remains the youngest singer to portray Carmen in Czech opera history. She has since created ''Carmen and Flamenco'', a presentation of the music from Bizet's opera which features flamenco dancers and music arranged for two Spanish guitars and castanets. While still occasionally appearing in operas, Adlerová has chiefly established herself in the concert repertoire, particularly in performing worked by contemporary Czech composers like Miloš Bok, Marek Kopelent, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edita Brychta
Edita Brychta is a British actress. Early life Brychta began acting as a young child in the Czech film Kinoautomat, the world's first interactive movie, which was presented at Expo 67 in Montreal. At the age of 16, she joined London's National Theatre Youth Workshop and decided to pursue an acting career. Career She trained at LAMDA and was signed by Ken McReddie. In the UK, Brychta went on to play Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Ophelia in Hamlet, Desdemona in Othello, and Marguerite in the world premiere of Vaclav Havel's Largo Desolato, directed by Tom Stoppard. She played Sybil Burlington in the award-winning West End production of Daisy Pulls It Off, produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Brychta starred in TV series such as Maelstrom, Gentleman and Players, Lovejoy, and Taggart, as well as the award-winning The Escape (Border in the UK) and the BAFTA-nominated The Britoil Affair. Brychta was cast in the role of Princess Diana in NBC's Behind The Palace Doors and moved to Los A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
