Nina Koshetz

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Nina Koshetz in The Chase , 1946

Nina Koshetz ( Ukrainian Ніна Павлівна Кошиць Nina Pawliwna Koschyz , Russian Нина Павловна Кошиц Nina Pavlovna Koschiz ; born January 17, jul. / 29. January  1892 greg. In Kyryliwka , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 14. May 1965 in Santa Ana , California , United States ) was a Russian - Ukrainian , later American opera and chamber singer (lyrical-dramatic soprano ) and actress .

Life

Nina Koshetz came in Kyryliwka, now the village Schewtschenkowe in Ukrainian Cherkasy Oblast , the daughter of opera singer Pavel Koschiz (Russian: Павел Алексеевич Кошиц ; Ukrainian: Павло Олексійович Кошиць Pawlo Oleksijowytsch Koschyz ; 1863 to 1904) to the world. She came from a very musical family. Her parents were both successful singers at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and Nina was also very musical. She started playing the piano at the age of four and gave her first piano recital at the age of nine .

She was at the Moscow Conservatory from 1908 to 1913 , where she studied piano with Konstantin Igumnov and composition with Sergei Taneyev . She made her operatic debut in 1913 as Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's " Eugene Onegin " in Moscow's S. Zimin Opera, where she sang as a soloist until 1920. At the same time she sang at the Mariinsky Theater in Petrograd in 1917/18 . She had a lyrical-dramatic soprano with a most extraordinary, exciting, passionate timbre.

In 1920 she went abroad with the Ukrainian Republican Band ( Українська республіканська капела ) under her cousin Alexander Koschiz ( Александр Антонович Кошиц ).

1928 with Maurice Ravel at the piano

She made her official American debut as a soloist in 1920 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under Ossip Gabrilowitsch . From 1921 to 1924 she was a soloist at the Chicago Opera . She has also sung at the operas in New York , Philadelphia , Buenos Aires (1924), Paris (1925, 1927), Brussels , Amsterdam , Riga , Vilnius , Stockholm , Nice and Sanremo . Nina Koshetz was a personal friend and colleague of Sergei Rachmaninow and Vladimir Horowitz . In the 1930s she was a soloist at the Los Angeles Opera Theater . She spent the last years of her life in Hollywood, where she taught talkies from 1941 on and worked as an actress in films. She died in Santa Ana at the age of 73.

She was married to the actor Alexander von Schubert. Their daughter Marina Koshetz (1912-2001, also known as Marina Schubert ) also became an opera singer (soprano).

Lots

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Nina Koshetz  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Nina Koshetz in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on April 20, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e biography of Nina Pawliwna Koschyz on ukrsong.narod ; accessed on April 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ entry to Pawlo Oleksijowytsch Koschyz in the Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine ; accessed on April 19, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b biography of Nina Koshetz on cantabile-subito.de ; accessed on April 19, 2018 (English)
  5. ↑ Nina Pavlovna Koshetz in Mugi the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg ; accessed on April 20, 2018
  6. ↑ Short biography of Nina Koshetz on russianheritagemuseum.com ; accessed on April 19, 2018 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Koshetz, Nina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koschyz, Nina Pawliwna (transcribed in Ukrainian); Кошиць, Ніна Павлівна (Ukrainian); Кошиц, Нина Павловна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian, later American opera and chamber singer (lyrical-dramatic soprano) and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Kyrylivka , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1965
Place of death Santa Ana , California United States