Veronika Borisenko News
Soviet singer, opera singer and music educator (1918-1995)
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- mezzo-soprano
- Soviet Union, Russia
- opera singer, music teacher
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2014-01-02 18:21:05
Precious snowflake
Bundle up warmly, cher public, and enjoy a weather-appropriate selection from the Mike Richter hoard. It’s Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snegurochka from his “Russian Opera” CD-ROM. Bolshoi Theater, 1957. Evgeni Svetlanov, conductor. Snegurochka: Vera Firsova Tsar Berendei: Ivan Kozlovsky Bermyata: Vladimir Gavryushov Fairy Spring: Veronika Borisenko Father Frost: Alexei Krivchenya Bobyl: Alexander Khosson Bobyl’s Wife: Valentina Petrova Lel: Larissa Avdeyeva Kupava: Galina Vishnevskaya Mizgir: Yuri Galkin Download audio file (snegurochka.mp3)
2013-07-30 16:16:15
It’s not easy being Greek
Sergey Taneyev, pupil of Tchaikovsky and teacher of Scriabin and Rachmaninov, composed just one opera, Oresteia, premiered in 1895 when he was 39. The response to it (and much unauthorized cutting) discouraged him from attempting another—which is a pity. Few first operas indicate a composer’s full potential; when so ambitious a work succeeds on so many levels, there is talent worth developing. The uncut Oresteia (almost four hours long) now being presented as part of Summerscape at Bard College contains scenes that drag and others that build to a superb ritual burnish. Taneyev’s melodic gifts and brilliant writing for voice, chorus and orchestra suggest he might well have gone on to mightier things. The opera is based on Aeschylus’ great trilogy about serial murders in a royal house that resulted, as the playwright tells it, in the invention of a civil society based on due process and state-mandated justice […]
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