Kira Vladimirovna Isotova

Kira Vladimirovna Isotova ( Russian Кира Владимировна Изотова , scientific transliteration Kira Vladimirovna Izotova ; born May 20, 1931 in Kronstadt ; † August 20, 2013 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian singer (soprano) and music teacher. In 1956 she won ex aequo with Aleksander Vedernikov the International Robert Schumann Competition for Piano and Voice of the City of Zwickau in the voice category. At that time this competition was still held in Berlin.

life and work

Isotowa studied at the Glinka Choir School in Saint Petersburg and then at the Conservatory in Saint Petersburg . She won first prize in singing at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw in 1955. Since 1962 she has taught at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, until April 2012 she was head of the chamber singing department there. Her students included Jelena Prokina , Olga Borodina , Anna Netrebko , Yuri Marusin and ZN Artemjewo-Leontievskaya .

Since the mid-1950s she has given numerous concerts. For many years she performed pieces for piano and voice together with the Russian pianist Pavel Serebryakov . She sang romances, songs, operas, vocal works by Russian and non-Russian composers. In total she had over two thousand works in her repertoire. For over thirty years she has given concerts in many cities of the USSR and abroad. Since 1955 she has worked as a soloist with the Leningrad Philharmonic and at the Leningrad Maly Theater for Opera and Ballet, named after MP. Mussorgsky. The most important roles included Natasha Rostova ("War and Peace" by Prokofiev ), Martha (" The Tsar's Bride " by A. Rimski-Korsakow ), Suzanna ("The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart ), Violeta ("La Traviata" by D. Verdi), Angela ("The Black Domino" by D. Ober), Prilepa ("The Queen of Spades " by Tchaikovsky ). Isotowa has recorded recordings with works by Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Claude Debussy , Francis Poulenc , Sergei Rachmaninow (1974/1975) with the pianist Pavel Serebryakov.

Isotova received the RSFSR's Honored Artist Award in 1970 and the Honored Artist of Russia Award in 2006.

literature

• Richard D. Sylvester: Rachmaninoff's Complete Songs: A Companion with Texts and Translations . Indiana University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-253-01259-3 , pp. 277 . , Index of Singers, there the following information: Izotova, Kira; Russian Soprano, Born 1931
• Axel Frey: Biographical Index of Russia and the Soviet Union . Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-093336-9 , pp. 870 . , Entry "Isotova, Kira"

Web links

• nekropol-spb.ru: Kira Isotova. Retrieved October 13, 2018 (Russian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schumann Competition Zwickau: Prize Winner. Retrieved October 13, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} nekropol-spb.ru