Opera

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  • Fyodor Chaliapin

    Opera singer, amateur artist. Born in Kazan in the family of a poor clerk called Ivan Chaliapin (1873). Performed at Savva Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera (1896), Bolshoi Theatre (1899), Mariinsky T...

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  • Antonio Tamburini

    Italian baritone. Born in Faenza in the Papal States (1800). Debuted in Cento (1822). Performed at La Scala in Milan (from 1822) and in St Petersburg (1843–49, 1851–52). Left the stage (1855). Died i...

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  • Pauline Viardot

    Spanish mezzo-soprano, teacher, composer. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García in Paris (1821). Debuted in Brussels (1837). Soloist of the Italian opera (from 1839). Married Louis Viardot (1840). ...

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  • Giovanni Battista Rubini

    Italian tenor, bel canto opera singer. Born in Romano di Lombardia near Bergamo (1794). Debuted in Pavia (1814). Repertoire included Gioacchino Rossini’s Otello, Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermo...

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  • Anna Vorobyova

    Opera singer, contralto. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Yakov Vorobyov (1816). First performer of the part of Vanya in Mikhail Glinka ’s opera A Life for the Tsar (1836). Married Osip Petrov ...

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  • Joachim Tartakov

    Opera singer. Born in Odessa in the family of Victor Tartakov (1860). Soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Performed more than a hundred roles, including the Demon in Anton Rubinstein’s...

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  • Osip Petrov

    Opera singer. Born in the Ukrainian town of Elisavetgrad (now Kirovohrad) in the family of Afanasy Petrov (1807). Founder of the Russian school of opera singing. Performed the operas of Mikhail Glink...

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