Maria Adrianovna Deisha-Sionitskaya |

Maria Deisha-Sionitskaya

Russian singer (dramatic soprano), musical and public figure, teacher. In 1881 she graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (singing classes EP Zwanziger and C. Everardi). Improved in Vienna and Paris with M. Marchesi. Successfully performed in Paris. She made her debut in 1883 as Aida at the Mariinsky Theater (St. Petersburg) and remained a soloist of this theater until 1891. In 1891-1908 she was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Deisha-Sionitskaya had a strong, flexible, even voice in all registers, a great dramatic temperament, rare artistic sensitivity and thoughtfulness. Her performance was distinguished by sincerity, deep penetration into the image.

Parts: Antonida; Gorislava (“Ruslan and Lyudmila”), Natasha, Tatyana, Kuma Nastasya, Iolanta; Vera Sheloga (“Boyarina Vera Sheloga”), Zemfira (“Aleko”), Yaroslavna, Liza, Kupava (the last four – for the first time in Moscow), Agatha; Elizabeth (“Tannhäuser”), Valentina (“Huguenots”), Margaret (“Mephistopheles” Boito) and many others. others

P. I. Tchaikovsky, N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, S. V. Rachmaninov highly appreciated the performance of the Deisha-Sionitskaya parts in their operas. She performed a lot as a chamber singer, in particular in concerts of the Circle of Russian Music Lovers. For the first time she performed a number of romances by S. I. Taneyev, with whom she was associated with a great creative friendship.

Deisha-Sionitskaya organized “Concerts of Foreign Music” (1906-08) and, together with B. L. Yavorsky, “Musical Exhibitions” (1907-11), which promoted new chamber compositions, mainly by Russian composers.

One of the founders, board member and teacher (1907-13) of the Moscow People’s Conservatory. In 1921-32 he was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory (class of solo singing) and at the First State Musical College. Author of the book “Singing in sensations” (M., 1926).