Ermonela Jaho Date of birth 1974 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Albania Author Igor Koryabin Ermonela Yaho began to receive singing lessons from the age of six. After graduating from the art school in Tirana, she won her first competition – and, again, in Tirana, at the age of 17, her professional debut took place as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata. At the age of 19, she moved to Italy to continue her studies at Rome’s National Academy of Santa Cecilia. After her graduation in vocal and piano, she won a number of important international vocal competitions – the Puccini Competition in Milan (1997), the Spontini Competition in Ancona…

Yusif Eyvazov Date of birth 02.05.1977 Profession singer Voice type tenor Country Azerbaijan Yusif Eyvazov regularly performs at the Metropolitan Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Paris National Opera, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, the Bolshoi Theatre, as well as at the Salzburg Festival and on the Arena di Verona stage. One of the first Eyvazov’s talent was appreciated by Riccardo Muti, with whom Eyvazov performs to this day. The singer also collaborates with Riccardo Chailly, Antonio Pappano, Valery Gergiev, Marco Armigliato and Tugan Sokhiev. The repertoire of the dramatic tenor includes mainly parts from operas by Puccini, Verdi, Leoncavallo and Mascagni. Eyvazov’s interpretation of the role of…

Ekaterina Scherbachenko Date of birth 31.01.1977 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Russia Ekaterina Shcherbachenko was born in the city of Chernobyl on January 31, 1977. Soon the family moved to Moscow, and then to Ryazan, where they firmly settled. In Ryazan, Ekaterina began her creative life – at the age of six she entered a music school in the violin class. In the summer of 1992, after graduating from the 9th grade, Ekaterina entered the Pirogovs Ryazan Musical College in the department of choral conducting. After college, the singer enters the Ryazan branch of the Moscow State Institute of Culture and Arts, and a year and a half later…

Rita Streich Date of birth 18.12.1920 Date of death 20.03.1987 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Germany Rita Streich was born in Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia. Her father Bruno Streich, a corporal in the German army, was captured on the fronts of the First World War and was poisoned to Barnaul, where he met a Russian girl, the future mother of the famous singer Vera Alekseeva. On December 18, 1920, Vera and Bruno had a daughter, Margarita Shtreich. Soon the Soviet government allowed the German prisoners of war to return home and Bruno, together with Vera and Margarita, went to Germany. Thanks to her Russian mother, Rita Streich spoke and…

Teresa Stolz Date of birth 02.06.1834 Date of death 23.08.1902 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Czech Republic She made her debut in 1857 in Tiflis (as part of an Italian troupe). In 1863 she successfully performed the part of Matilda in William Tell (Bologna). From 1865 she performed at La Scala. At the suggestion of Verdi, in 1867 she performed the part of Elizabeth in the Italian premiere of Don Carlos in Bologna. Received recognition as one of the best Verdi singers. On stage, La Scala sang the parts of Leonora in The Force of Destiny (1869, premiere of the 2nd edition), Aida (1871, 1st production at La Scala,…

Boris Shtokolov Date of birth 19.03.1930 Date of death 06.01.2005 Profession singer Voice type bass Country Russia, USSR Boris Timofeevich Shtokolov was born on March 19, 1930 in Sverdlovsk. The artist himself recalls the path to art: “Our family lived in Sverdlovsk. In XNUMX, a funeral came from the front: my father died. And our mother had a little less than us … It was difficult for her to feed everyone. A year before the end of the war, we in the Urals had another recruitment to the Solovetsky school. So I decided to go to the North, I thought it would be a little easier for my mother. And…

Daniel Shtoda Date of birth 13.02.1977 Profession singer Voice type tenor Country Russia Daniil Shtoda – People’s Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, laureate of international competitions, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater. He graduated with honors from the Choir School at the Academic Chapel. M.I. Glinka. At the age of 13 he made his debut at the Mariinsky Theater, performing the part of Tsarevich Fyodor in Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. In 2000 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov (class of L.N. Morozov). Since 1998 he has been a soloist with the Academy of Young Singers of the Mariinsky Theatre. Since 2007 he has been a…

Nina Voice Date of birth 11.05.1963 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Sweden Swedish opera singer Nina Stemme successfully performs at the most prestigious venues in the world. Having made her debut in Italy as Cherubino, she subsequently sang on the stage of the Stockholm Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, the Semperoper Theater in Dresden; she has performed in Geneva, Zurich, the San Carlo Theater in Neapolitan, the Liceo in Barcelona, ​​the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the San Francisco Opera; She has taken part in music festivals in Bayreuth, Salzburg, Savonlinna, Glyndebourne and Bregenz. The singer sang the role of Isolde in the EMI recording of “Tristan…

Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient Date of birth 06.12.1804 Date of death 26.01.1860 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Germany Wilhelmina Schroeder was born on December 6, 1804 in Hamburg. She was the daughter of the baritone singer Friedrich Ludwig Schröder and the famous dramatic actress Sophia Bürger-Schröder. At an age when other children spend time in carefree games, Wilhelmina has already learned the serious side of life. “From the age of four,” she says, “I already had to work and earn my bread. Then the famous ballet troupe Kobler wandered around Germany; she also arrived in Hamburg, where she was particularly successful. My mother, highly receptive, carried away by some idea, immediately…

Tatiana Shmyga Date of birth 31.12.1928 Date of death 03.02.2011 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Russia, USSR An operetta artist must be a generalist. Such are the laws of the genre: it combines singing, dance and dramatic acting on an equal footing. And the absence of one of these qualities is in no way compensated for by the presence of the other. This is probably why the true stars on the horizon of the operetta light up extremely rarely. Tatyana Shmyga is the owner of a peculiar, one might say synthetic, talent. Sincerity, deep sincerity, soulful lyricism, combined with energy and charm, immediately attracted attention to the singer. Tatyana…