Oxana Shilova Date of birth 12.01.1974 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Russia Оксана Шилова – российская оперная певица (сопрано), лауреат международных конкурсов, солистка Мариинского театра, выпускница Санкт-Петербургской консерватории. В певице гармонично сочетаются исключительные профессиональные качества современной оперной артистки: чарующий тембр голоса, тонкая музыкальность, виртуозная техника, многогранный драматический талант, внешняя красота и природная харизма. Ее сочное, упругое и теплое колоратурное сопрано завоевало признание российских и зарубежных почитателей оперного искусства. Оксана Шилова исполняет ведущие партии в постановках Мариинского театра. Ее неповторимый хрустальный тембр и незаурядный актерский талант позволяют создавать на сцене изысканные, разноплановые образы, всегда полные искренности и убедительности. В Мариинском театре певица исполняет более 30 ведущих партий в операх «Травиата»,…

Neil Shicoff Date of birth 02.06.1949 Profession singer Voice type tenor Country USA Дебют 1972 (Нью-Йорк). В 1975 исполнил партию Нарработа в «Саломее» в Вашингтоне. С 1976 в Метрополитен Опера (дебют в партии Ринуччи в опере «Джанни Скикки» Пуччини). Среди других партий в этом театре Ленский, Герцог, Вертер, Фауст, Гофман в «Сказках Гофмана» Оффенбаха. В том же году исполнил партию Мориса в «Адриане Лекуврер» Чилеа (Мюнхен). В 1978 пел в Ковент Гардене партию Пинкертона. В 1986 дебютировал в Ла Скала (партия Ленского). Пел партию Дон Карлоса (1986, Гранд-Опера). Из выступлений последних лет отметим партии Альфреда (1992, Венеция, с Груберовой, спектакль записан на видео), Хозе на фестивале «Арена ди Верона» (1996,…

Elizabeth Schwarzkopf Date of birth 09.12.1915 Date of death 03.08.2006 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Germany Among the vocalists of the second half of the XNUMXth century, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf occupies a special place, comparable only to Maria Callas. And today, decades later from the moment when the singer last appeared before the public, for admirers of the opera, her name still personifies the standard of opera singing. Although the history of singing culture knows many examples of how artists with poor vocal abilities managed to achieve significant artistic results, the example of Schwarzkopf seems to be truly unique. In the press, there were often confessions like this: “If in…

Anna Shafajinskaya Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Ukraine Recognition came to Anna Shafazhinskaya after her performance at the fifth Luciano Pavarotti International Vocal Competition: she received an invitation to perform the part of Tosca in Puccini’s opera of the same name, where Luciano Pavarotti became her stage partner. Anna Shafazhinskaya is a winner of fourteen National and International vocal competitions. Her awards include the Best Debut Artist Award at NYCO. Maria Callas Award nominee (Dallas). Anna Shafazhinskaya graduated from the Academy of Music. Gnesins (Moscow) and currently occupies a leading place among the dramatic sopranos of the younger generation. Her debut at the Vienna Opera as Turandot was called…

Feodor Chaliapin Date of birth 13.02.1873 Date of death 12.04.1938 Profession singer Voice type bass Country Russia Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin was born on February 13, 1873 in Kazan, in a poor family of Ivan Yakovlevich Chaliapin, a peasant from the village of Syrtsovo, Vyatka province. Mother, Evdokia (Avdotya) Mikhailovna (nee Prozorova), originally from the village of Dudinskaya in the same province. Already in childhood, Fedor had a beautiful voice (treble) and often sang along with his mother, “adjusting his voice.” From the age of nine he sang in church choirs, tried to learn to play the violin, read a lot, but was forced to work as an apprentice shoemaker, turner,…

Albina Shagimuratova Date of birth 17.10.1979 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Russia Albina Shagimuratova was born in Tashkent. Graduated from the Kazan Musical College named after I. V. Aukhadeeva as a choral conductor and entered the Kazan State Conservatory. N. G. Zhiganova. From the third year she transferred to the Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky, in the class of Professor Galina Pisarenko. Graduated with honors from the conservatory and assistantship-internship. Honorary graduate of the youth opera program at the Houston Grand Opera (USA), in which she studied from 2006 to 2008. At various times she took lessons from Dmitry Vdovin in Moscow and Renata Scotto in New York.…

Patrizia Ciofi Date of birth 07.06.1967 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country Italy One of the brightest singers of her generation, Patricia Ciofi studied vocals under the guidance of the Polish teacher Anastasia Tomaszewska in Siena and Livorno, where she graduated from the conservatory in 1989. She has also attended master classes with renowned musicians such as Carlo Bergonzi, Shirley Verrett, Claudio Desderi, Alberto Zedda and Giorgio Gualerzi. As a laureate of several regional and international competitions, Patricia Ciofi made her debut in 1989 on the stage of the Florentine Municipal Theatre (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theater). Permanent engagements at the opera festival in Martina Franca (Apulia, Italy) allowed the singer…

Laure Cinti-Damoreau Date of birth 06.02.1801 Date of death 25.02.1863 Profession singer Voice type soprano Country France Laura Chinti Montalan was born in Paris in 1801. From the age of 7 she began to study music at the Paris Conservatory with Giulio Marco Bordogni. She also studied with the contrabass player of the Grand Opera and the organist Chenier. Later (since 1816) she took lessons from the famous Angelica Catalani, who headed the Parisian “Italien Theatre”. In this theater, the singer made her debut in 1818, already under the Italianized surname Chinti, in the opera The Rare Thing by Martin y Soler. The first success came to the singer in…

Vladimir Chernov Date of birth 22.09.1953 Profession singer Voice type baritone Country Russia, USSR Since 1983 he has been a soloist of the Mariinsky Theater (among the roles are Germont, Figaro, Valentin in Faust). Since the late 80s he has been singing abroad. In 1988 he performed the part of Marseille in La Boheme (Boston). Since 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera (debut in a gala concert). In 1992, he performed here the part of Rodrigo in Don Carlos. Sang in Covent Garden the part of Figaro (1990). Participated in a number of premiere productions of Verdi’s operas at the Metropolitan Opera (1993, Stiffelio, the part of Count Stankar; 1996, The…

Gianfranco Cecchele Date of birth 25.06.1938 Profession singer Voice type tenor Country Italy The peasant became a famous tenor in just a year and a half – this is Chekkele! A talented boxer who won tournaments turned into a singer – this is Chekkele! He easily took D-flat, having no idea about it – this is also Chekkele! In what other country are colonels so versed in vocals, if not in Italy! How many kind words he said to his army chief Beniamino Gigli! So the peasant son Gianfranco Chekkele * was lucky with the service. The regimental commander, hearing the singing of a young man who knew only two…