Elizaveta Antonova News
Soviet opera singer (1904-1994)
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2024-04-25
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2020-12-06 10:42:18
The rising toll: This week’s Covid losses
124 Bulgarian tenor Kamen Tchanev, 56 125 Lee Dykes, music teacher, father of six 126 Sudanese singer Hamad Al-Rayah, 80 127 Russian curator Irina Antonova, 98 128 Bengali sarod maestro Ustad Shahadat Hossain, 62 129 Chicago producer Matthew Agostini, 50 130 Pennsylvania jazzman Russ Neff 131 Yo Yo Ma ensemble player Bassam Saba, 61 132 […]
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2020-12-01 15:45:54
Richter’s curator has died, aged 98
The formidable Irina Antonova, director of the Pushkin Museum for 52 years who enticed Sviatoslav Richter to play historic recitals in her hall, is being mourned by cultural Russians. Antonova was th world’s longest seving museum chief. The cause of death was Covid-19.
2020-05-24 23:00:00
Rimsky-Korsakov SADKO (1993)
[…] in transliterated Russian, English, German, and French, plus synopses and essays in English, German, French, and Italian. If Sadko intrigues you, you may wish to investigate an earlier version which has been reissued on Arlecchino 23-25. This is one of the classics of the Soviet era. It is well recorded for its time (1952) and boasts an extremely fine cast. Nelepp and Shumskaya are the tenor and soprano leads. The rich contralto voice of Antonova is heard in the role of Nezhata. The three merchant guests— Reisen, Kozlovsky, and Lisitsian—are indeed a stellar trio. Golovanov is a wonderfully expressive conductor; it's safe to say that you haven't really heard the Scene by the Lake until you've heard what he does with it. Don C. Seibert
2017-05-20 14:00:44
Cock of the walk
[…] role with the sort of chirpy soprano Lily Pons, Sills and Faye Robinson brought to it, but Julia Lima has a fuller, deeper sound considerably more appropriate to her seductive message, though high filigree is not scorned. Her figure might be described as the inverse of cliché diva—she flaunts those abs!—and her snarling combination of the lascivious and the scornful is just what we expect in a Russian dominatrix. The Cockerel was sung by Ksenia Antonova, who lacked the Offenbach-Doll soulless stamina of delivery that the part calls for. (She’s not human, you know.) Fabulous costume. The Astrologer is meant to be a eunuch, which implies a visitor from the infidel lands to the south and east of Russia with their ancient mystic lore; it is written for a very high tenor in consequence. Today, perhaps, a countertenor would produce the proper sexual oddity, but John Villemaire sang with an […]
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