Salomea Deszner, née ''Teschner'', ''Teszner'' (1759 – 20 March 1806), was a Polish stage actress, opera singer, and theater director, active 1777–1806.

Her father Adam Teschnerów was employed in the household of the Branicki family, and she was noticed by the king and engaged at his theater. She was employed at the

National Theatre, Warsaw The National Theatre () in Warsaw, Poland, was founded in 1765, during the Polish Enlightenment, by that country's monarch, Stanisław August Poniatowski. The theatre shares the Grand Theatre complex at the Theatre Square in Warsaw with anothe ...

in 1777-85 and 1789–96, and in the theater in Vilnius in 1785-89 and 1796–1801. She was the director of the theater in Grodno from 1802 until 1806, and as such had authority over the theatrical policy in the entire district. As an actor, she was regarded as belonging to the elite in Poland, and she was active in tragedy, comedy, and opera, was famed in

breeches role A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role, or Hosenrolle) is one in which an actress appears in male clothing. Breeches, tight-fitting knee-length pants, were the standard male garment at the time these roles were introduced. The theatric ...

s, and was particularly known for the part of

Minna von Barnhelm ''Minna von Barnhelm or the Soldiers' Happiness'' (german: Minna von Barnhelm oder das Soldatenglück, ) is a ''lustspiel'' or comedy by the German author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. It has five acts, was begun in 1763 and completed in 1767 – ...

. She participated in the first

opera buffa ''Opera buffa'' (; "comic opera", plural: ''opere buffe'') is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ''commedia in musica'', ''commedia per musica'', ''dramm ...

in Poland, ''Dla miłości zmyślone szaleństwo'' (1779).

References

* Źródło: Słownik Biograficzny Teatru Polskiego 1765–1965, PWN Warszawa 1973 {{DEFAULTSORT:Deszner, Salomea 19th-century Polish actresses 1759 births 1806 deaths Actresses from the Russian Empire 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian opera singers Polish theatre directors Polish women theatre directors 18th-century Polish–Lithuanian actresses 19th-century Polish women opera singers Actors from Białystok Musicians from Białystok