Elizaveta Andreevna Lavrovskaya |

Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya

She studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory in the singing class of G. Nissen-Saloman. In 1867 she made her debut at the Mariinsky Theater as Vanya, which later became her best work. At the end of the conservatory (1868) she was enrolled in the troupe of this theater; she sang here until 1872 and in 1879-80. In 1890-91 – at the Bolshoi Theater.

Parties: Ratmir; Rogneda, Grunya (“Rogneda”, “Enemy Force” by Serov), Zibel, Azuchena and others. She performed mainly as a concert singer. She toured in Russia and abroad (Germany, Italy, Austria, Great Britain), gaining worldwide fame.

Lavrovskaya’s singing was distinguished by subtle artistic phrasing, richness of nuances, a strict sense of artistic proportion, and impeccable intonation. P. I. Tchaikovsky considered Lavrovskaya one of the outstanding representatives of the Russian vocal school, wrote about her “wonderful, velvety, juicy” voice (the singer’s low notes were especially powerful and full), artistic simplicity of performance, dedicated 6 romances and a vocal quartet to her “ Night”. Lavrovskaya gave Tchaikovsky the idea to write an opera based on the plot of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. From 1888 Lavrovskaya was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Among her students are E. I. Zbrueva, E. Ya. Tsvetkova.