Olga Vladimirovna Borodina
Olga Wladimirowna Borodina ( Russian Ольга Владимировна Бородина ; born July 29, 1963 in Leningrad ) is a Russian opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).
life and work
"Too uninteresting a voice," heard the young Olga Borodina when she auditioned at the music school of the Leningrad Conservatory . It took three attempts before she was allowed to study singing.
Olga Borodina made her debut in 1992 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden alongside Plácido Domingo - as Dalila in Samson et Dalila . She returned frequently to this house and was often engaged at Scala and Met , in San Francisco , Washington and Chicago , at the Salzburg Festival , in Rome, Ravenna, at the Liceu in Barcelona and at the Opéra National de Paris . Its parent company is the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg .
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Borodina has a wide repertoire and is known for her velvety voice. She sings mainly Russian, French and Italian operas, occasionally also recitals.
Her most important roles include La Cenerentola , Eboli in Don Carlos , Princess in Adriana Lecouvreur and Amneris in Aida in Italian, Carmen and Marguérite in La damnation de Faust in French, as well as Marfa in Khovanshchina and Olga in Eugen Onegin , as well as the marina in Boris Godunov .
Recordings
Olga Borodina's voice is also documented on numerous CD and DVD recordings. Particular attention was paid to the Russian repertoire, which she recorded mainly with the choir and orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater under Valery Gergiev , including Mussorgski's Boris Godunow and Khovanshchina , Prokofiev's War and Peace and Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride . Her Russian origins are very important to the singer:
"I'm one of the mad people who need their roots. I take nourishment from my native land, my motherland. I want my children to study in Russia, because they are Russian. I think this is tremendously important. But life in St Petersburg is becoming tougher by the day and the Russian spirit, the spirituality that was part and parcel of Russian culture, is almost not there any more.
Scandals
The Borodina is considered a capricious diva:
- In 2003 she left rehearsals for the Robert Wilson production of Aida at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden because she was dissatisfied with the conductor Antonio Pappano . Original sound Borodina: "too strange an approach to this opera". Ildikó Komlósi took over the Amneris .
- In 2004 she withdrew from a Carmen production at La Scala for a short time because the recitatives were spoken and not sung. Julia Gertseva sang in her place .
- In 2006 the management of the Vienna State Opera - on the day of the premiere of L'italiana in Algeri - canceled the contract with Borodina “for this and all other productions” after massive disagreements had occurred during rehearsals. One step in was the chamber singer Agnes Baltsa .
Borodina's debut at the Vienna State Opera took place under new direction in March 2013. She sang Amneris in Aida , conductor was Pinchas Steinberg .
family
Borodina has three children and is a third marriage to Bass Ildar Abdrazakov, who is 14 years her junior .
Awards
- 1989 winner of the Francisco Vinas singing competition in Barcelona
- 1998 gold medal in the Rosa Ponselle Vocal Competition
- 2002 People's Artist of Russia
- 2006 State Prize of the Russian Federation
- 2007 Opera News Award
- 2011 Grammy Award for Best Classical Album - Verdi's Messa da Requiem
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borodina, Olga ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. as RussiaProfile.org
- ^ "Working Out Those Royal Father-Son Issues on a Grand Stage" by Anthony Tommasini , The New York Times , December 2, 2006
- ^ "Rotterdam Philharmonic / Gergiev" , by Erica Jeal, The Guardian , 22 August 2003
- ^ "Rossini's L'italiana à la russe at the Met; Florez shines" by Robert Levine at ClassicsToday.com
- ↑ a b "'He's still very angry" , interview by Stephen Everson, The Guardian , July 28, 2005
- ^ "The ambitious diva with designs to direct" by Galina Stolyarova, The St. Petersburg Times
- ^ "Vienna State Opera Fires Olga Borodina" by Matthew Westphal, Playbill , June 20, 2006
- ↑ Olga Borodina ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Mariinsky Theater
- ↑ Links to opera singers at RosaPonselle.com
- ↑ Президент России ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borodina, Olga Vladimirovna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Бородина, Ольга Владимировна (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian opera singer (mezzo-soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |