Evgeny Evgenievich Nesterenko (Evgeny Nesterenko) |
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Evgeny Evgenievich Nesterenko (Evgeny Nesterenko) |

Evgeny Nesterenko

Date of birth
08.01.1938
Date of death
20.03.2021
Profession
singer
Voice type
bass
Country
Russia, USSR

Evgeny Evgenievich Nesterenko (Evgeny Nesterenko) |

Born on January 8, 1938 in Moscow. Father – Nesterenko Evgeny Nikiforovich (born 1908). Mother – Bauman Velta Valdemarovna (1912 – 1938). Wife – Alekseeva Ekaterina Dmitrievna (born July 26.07.1939, 08.11.1964). Son – Nesterenko Maxim Evgenievich (born XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX).

Graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, and in 1965 from the Leningrad State Conservatory. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov (class of Professor V. M. Lukanin). Soloist of the Maly Opera Theater (1963 – 1967), the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater (1967 – 1971), the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of Russia (1971 – present). Vocal teacher of the Leningrad Conservatory (1967 – 1971), Moscow Musical and Pedagogical Institute. Gnesins (1972 – 1974), Moscow State Conservatory. P. I. Tchaikovsky (1975 – present). People’s Artist of the USSR (since 1976), Lenin Prize Laureate (1982), Hero of Socialist Labor (1988), Honorary Professor of the Hungarian State Music Academy. F. Liszt (since 1984), Member of the Presidium of the Board of the Soviet Cultural Foundation (1986 – 1991), Honorary member of the Presidium of the Academy of Creativity (since 1992), Honorary title of Kammersenger, Austria (1992). He performed on the best stages of the world: La Scala (Italy), Metropolitan Opera (USA), Covent Garden (Great Britain), Colon (Argentina), as well as in the theaters of Vienna (Austria), Munich ( Germany), San Francisco (USA) and many others.

    He sang more than 50 leading roles, performed 21 operas in the original language. Performed the main roles in operas by M. I. Glinka (Ivan Susanin, Ruslan), M. P. Mussorgsky (Boris, Dosifei, Ivan Khovansky), P. I. Tchaikovsky (Gremin, King Rene, Kochubey), A. P. Borodin (Prince Igor, Konchak), A. S. Dargomyzhsky (Melnik), D. Verdi (Philip II, Attila, Fiesco, Ramfis), J. Gounod (Mephistopheles), A. Boito (Mephistopheles), G. Rossini (Moses , Basilio) and many others. Performer of solo concert programs of vocal works by Russian and foreign composers; Russian folk songs, romances, arias from operas, oratorios, cantatas and other works for voice and orchestra, church hymns, etc. In 1967 he was awarded 2 prizes and a silver medal at the International Competition for Young Opera Singers (Sofia, Bulgaria), in 1970 – 1st prize and gold medal at the IV International Competition. P. I. Tchaikovsky (Moscow, USSR). For an outstanding interpretation of Russian music, he was awarded the Golden Viotti medal, “as one of the greatest Boriss of all time” (Vercelli, Italy, 1981); prize “Golden Disc” – for the recording of the opera “Ivan Susanin” (Japan, 1982); International prize “Golden Orpheus” of the French National Recording Academy – for the recording of Bela Bartok’s opera “Duke Bluebeard’s Castle” (1984); the prize “Golden Disc” of the All-Union Recording Company “Melody” for the disc “Songs and Romances” by MP Mussorgsky (1985); the prize named after Giovanni Zenatello “For the outstanding embodiment of the central image in G. Verdi’s opera” Attila “(Verona, Italy, 1985); Wilhelm Furtwängler Prize “As one of the greatest basses of our century” (Baden-Baden, Germany, 1992); Chaliapin Prize of the Academy of Creativity (Moscow, 1992), as well as many other honorary titles and awards.

    He recorded about 70 records and discs on domestic and foreign recording companies, including 20 operas (in full), arias, romances, folk songs. Nesterenko E.E. is the author of over 200 printed works – books, articles, interviews, including: E. Nesterenko (ed. – comp.), V. Lukanin. My method of working with singers. Ed. Music, L., 1972. 2nd ed. 1977 (4 sheets); E. Nesterenko. Reflections on the profession. M., Art, 1985 (25 sheets); E. Nesterenko. Jevgenyij Neszterenko (ed.-comp. Kereni Maria), Budapest, 1987 (17 sheets).

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