Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya (Ljuba Kazarnovskaya) |
Lyuba Kazarnovskaya
Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya was born on May 18, 1956 in Moscow. In 1981, at the age of 21, while still a student at the Moscow Conservatory, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya made her debut as Tatyana (Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky) on the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. Laureate of the All-Union Competition. Glinka (II prize). In 1982 she graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory, in 1985 – postgraduate studies in the class of Associate Professor Elena Ivanovna Shumilova.
In 1981-1986 – soloist of the musical academic theater named after. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, in the repertoire of “Eugene Onegin” and “Iolanta” by Tchaikovsky, “May Night” by Rimsky-Korsakov, “Pagliacci” by Leoncavallo, “La Boheme” by Puccini.
In 1984, at the invitation of Yevgeny Svetlanov, he performed the part of Fevronia in a new production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh, and then in 1985, the part of Tatiana (Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky) and Nedda (Pagliacci by Leoncavallo) at the Bolshoi Theater . 1984 – Grand Prix of the UNESCO Young Performers Competition (Bratislava). Laureate of the Competition Mirjam Hellin (Helsinki) — III prize and an honorary diploma for the performance of an Italian aria (personally from the chairman of the competition and the legendary Swedish opera singer Birgit Nilsson).
1986 – Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize. In 1986-1989 – Leading soloist of the State Academic Theater. Kirov (now the Mariinsky Theatre). Repertoire: Leonora (Force of Destiny and Il trovatore by Verdi), Marguerite (Faust by Gounod), Donna Anna and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni by Mozart), Violetta (Verdi’s La Traviata), Tatiana (Eugene Onegin “Tchaikovsky), Lisa (“The Queen of Spades” by Tchaikovsky), soprano part in Verdi’s Requiem.
The first foreign triumph took place at the Covent Garden Theater (London), in the part of Tatiana in Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin (1988). In August 1989, he made his triumphant debut in Salzburg (Verdi’s Requiem, conductor Riccardo Muti). The entire musical world noted and appreciated the performance of the young soprano from Russia. This sensational performance marked the beginning of a dizzying career, which later led her to such opera houses as Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Colon, Houston Grand Opera. Her partners are Pavarotti, Domingo, Carreras, Araiza, Nucci, Cappuccili, Cossotto, von Stade, Baltza.
In October 1989 she took part in the tour of the Milan Opera House “La Scala” in Moscow (G. Verdi’s “Requiem”).
In 1996, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya made her successful debut on the stage of the La Scala Theater in Prokofiev’s The Gambler, and in February 1997 she sang the part of Salome at the Santa Cecilia Theater in Rome. The leading masters of operatic art of our time worked with her – such conductors as Muti, Levine, Thielemann, Barenboim, Haitink, Temirkanov, Kolobov, Gergiev, directors – Zefirelli, Egoyan, Wikk, Taymor, Dew and others.
