Lidija Georgievna Svyagina

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Lidija Georgievna Svyagina

Lidija Georgievna (Yuryevna) Swjagina ( Russian Лидия Георгиевна (Юрьевна) Звягина ; born December 1 . Jul / 13. December  1861 greg. In Kamenetz-Podolski , † 1943 in Moscow ) was a Ukrainian - Russian contra-alto and singing teacher .

Life

Svyagina from a noble family graduated from high school in Zhitomir . Then she studied at the higher women's courses in Kiev . She received her vocal training at the Kiev Music School. From 1882 to 1887 she studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with Anna Poljakowa-Chwostowa , Jelisaweta Zwanziger and Camille François Everard .

From 1887 Svyagina sang in Tbilisi and studied Prjanischnikov's roles under the direction of Ippolit . In 1889 she joined the opera troupe of the Moscow Bolshoi Theater and became a soloist there (until 1909). In the summer of 1889 she was to a guest performance in Odessa and sang the Ratmir in Glinkas Ruslan and Lyudmila . In the summers of 1890 and 1891 she continued her education in Paris with Pauline Viardot-García and studied the parts of Ratmir in Ruslan and Ludmila, the princess in Dargomyschski's Russalka and Carmen in Bizet's Carmen .

From 1920 to 1924 Svyagina was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory . Among her students was the People's Artist of the USSR and multiple Stalin Prize winner N. S. Chanajew . In addition, she taught at the formerly private music college of the Valentina Sograf-Plaxina , which became the Academic College of Music at the Moscow Conservatory.

During her final years, Svyagina lived in the house of the stage veterans. She was married twice.

Individual evidence

  1. Звягина Лидия Георгиевна . In: Театральная энциклопедия . tape 2 , 1963, p. 765 .
  2. Article Swjagina Lidija Jurjewna (Georgievna) in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D037448~2a%3DSwjagina%20Lidija%20Jurjewna%20%28Georgijewna%29~2b%3DSwjagina%20Lidija%20Jurjewna%20%28Georgijewna%29
  3. Лидия Юрьевна Звягина (По поводу 20-летия оперной деятельности) . In: Ежегодник императорских театров . No. 6 , 1909, pp. 152-153 .
  4. 20- летний юбилей службы в Большом театре Л. Ю. Звягиной . In: Рампа и жизнь . No. 34 , 1909, pp. 779 .