Maria Petrovna Maksakova

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the singer and politician Marija Maksakowa see Marija Petrowna Maksakowa-Igenbergs .

Marija Petrovna Maksakowa ( Russian Мария Петровна Максакова ; born March 26 ^{. Jul} / 8. April  1902 ^greg. In Astrakhan ; † 11. August 1974 in Moscow ) was a Soviet opera singer ( alto ).

Career

Maksakowa sang in the church choir as a child. After a short training from 1919 by her future husband, the baritone and music teacher Maximilian Maksakow (actually Max Schwarz, 1869–1936), she came to the Astrakhan Opera House in 1919, where she made her debut as Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin and in the next three Sang a variety of roles over the years. In 1923 she was appointed to the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. There she made her debut with great success as Amneris in Aida . In the following three decades she was one of the leading artistic forces of this theater and gave regular guest appearances in the opera houses of Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. Extraordinary achievements reached under conditions other than Marina in the opera Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky , as Marfa in the opera Khovanshchina of the same composer, in Carmen by Georges Bizet . From 1925 to 1927 Maksakova was engaged at the Leningrad Opera House. However, she returned to the Bolshoi Theater, to which she remained loyal until the end of her stage career in 1953. From 1936 to 1939 she appeared in guest appearances in Poland in the title role of Tosca . In 1939 she celebrated a great success in the world premiere of the work Jemeljan Pugatschow , Don-Cossack and leader of the peasant uprising from 1773 to 1775 by the composer Marian Victorowitsch Kowal . In 1941 she aroused the greatest admiration for her interpretation of the Schumann song cycle Frauenliebe und -leben in Moscow. In her later phase Maksakowa worked as a singing teacher. Among other things, she was Valentina Levko's teacher .

The actress Lyudmila Wassiljewna Maksakowa is the daughter, the singer and TV presenter Marija Petrovna Maksakowa-Igenbergs the granddaughter of Marija Petrovna Maksakowa.

Honors

Maksakowa was awarded the State Prize of the Soviet Union three times . In 1971 she received the title " People's Artist of the USSR ". In 1972 she received the Robert Schumann Prize from the city of Zwickau .

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large Singer Lexicon , Volume 3, Column 2279, in: Digital Library, Volume 33, Berlin 2004, Directmedia, article " Maxakowa, Maria Petrowna, Alt "