Margarita Alexandrovna Miglau

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Margarita Alexandrowna Miglau ( Russian Маргарита Александровна Миглау ; born March 16, 1926 in Lesje, Leningrad Oblast ; † March 18, 2013 in Moscow ) was a Soviet opera singer with a soprano voice .

Life

Miglau was born in the Leningrad Province. Her father was of Estonian - Latvian descent; the mother was Russian . During the Second World War , Miglaus' family was forcibly relocated to Tartu ( Dorpat ) in Estonia as part of the occupation of the Baltic States . Miglau worked in agriculture and as an accountant .

After the end of the war she studied singing , first at the Tartu Conservatory with Salme Kann. She then moved to Leningrad and later to Moscow. From 1951 she continued her vocal training at the Gnessin Music Academy in Moscow. In 1956 she was engaged at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater . There she remained a permanent member of the ensemble until 1986. In 1986 she gave up her singing career.

In over 30 years she sang around 50 different roles at the Bolshoi Theater. There she sang a wide repertoire, which mainly contained parts from the lyric and the youthful-dramatic soprano. Her roles at the Bolshoi Theater included: Countess in Le nozze di Figaro , Micaëla in Carmen , Marguerite in Faust , Tatjana in Eugen Onegin and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream . The Cio-Cio-San in the opera Madama Butterfly , with which she appeared in 173 performances at the Bolshoi Theater, was considered to be her brilliant role . Miglau was also the first singer to sang the role of Senta in Richard Wagner's opera Der Fliegende Holländer at the Bolshoi Theater .

She also interpreted numerous roles in Russian operas: Wolkowa in Sadko by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , the swan princess in The Tale of Tsar Saltan , Clara in The Snow Queen by Sergei Banevich , Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew by Wissarion Schebalin , Sascha in The Mother of Tikhon Chrennikow and Maria in the opera At Dawn it's Still Quiet by Kirill Moltschanow .

In addition to her main roles, Miglau also took on numerous Comprimario roles, such as the priestess in Aida , Mercedes in Carmen , Larina in Eugene Onegin and Mascha in Pique Dame .

In October 1971 Miglau made a guest appearance by the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR at the Vienna State Opera . She sang the roles of Mascha / Chloe in Queen of Spades and Dunjascha in War and Peace .

Miglau was also a successful concert singer. Her concert repertoire included the soprano part in Verdi Requiem , the soprano solo in Ludwig van Beethoven's 9th Symphony and the soprano part in the choral work The Bells by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninoff .

In 1966 she became an "Honored Artist" of the RSFSR; In 1973 she was appointed People's Artist of the RSFSR . Since 1983 she has been teaching as a professor of solo singing at the Gnessin Music Academy. Her students include Maria Maksakowa and Tatiana Artemieva.

Audio documents

Recordings in Russian and live recordings from the Bolshoi Theater document Miglaus' voice. In 1958 she took part in the role of Olga in a complete recording of the opera Russalka by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski ; In 2002 a complete recording of the opera The Story of the True Man from 1961 was re-released, in which Miglau can be heard in the smaller mezzo-soprano part of Varya. In 1982 she took part as Dunjascha in a complete recording of the opera War and Peace ; The conductor was Mark Ermler . In 2009, a live recording of the opera Carmen from the Bolshoi Theater from 1977 was released on the Russian label Melodiya ; Miglau sings in it, alongside Vladimir Atlantow and Elena Obraszowa , the role of the peasant girl Micaëla. There is also a recording of a performance of the opera Khovanshchina from the Bolshoi Theater from 1979, in which Miglau sings the role of Emma; the recording of the performance has now also been published on Laserdisc .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h Знаменитая Чио-Чио Сан Большого театра скончалась в возрасте 87 лет (obituary (Russian) from March 19, 2013)
  2. ↑ PIQUE DAME / PIKOVAYA DAMA cast sheet from October 10, 1971
  3. ↑ WAR AND PEACE (WOINA I MIR) cast slip dated October 12, 1971
  4. ^ Miglau, M Indiana University Library Catalog
  5. ↑ A solid opera evening CD review at Klassik.com
  6. ^ Margarita Miglau (singer) Operaclass catalog
personal data
SURNAME Miglau, Margarita Alexandrovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Миглау, Маргарита Александровна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Lesje, Leningrad Oblast
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 2013
Place of death Moscow