Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva (December 26, 1867 or January 7, 1868 – 20 October 1936), in Russian Евге́ния Ива́новна Збру́ева, was a Russian contralto opera singer.
Evgenija Zbrueva | |
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 Evgenija Zbrueva as Lel in Sněhurka (1894) | |
| Born | Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva 26 December 1867 (or January 7, 1868) Moscow |
| Died | 20 October 1936 Moscow |
| Other names | Evegeniya Zbrujewa, Evegenia Zbroueff, Yevgenia Zbruyeva |
| Occupation | Singer |
Early life
editZbrueva was born in Moscow, the daughter of composer Pyotr Bulakhov. (Her surname came from her mother's first husband, because her parents were not legally married.) She trained as a singer at the Moscow Conservatory, under E. A. Lavrovskaya.[1]
Career
editZbrueva was a contralto in the Moscow Imperial Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1894, and with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1905 until 1918, including appearances in Paris[2] and Munich.[3] In 1915 she was appointed Professor of Singing at Petrograd Conservatory. She was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1922.[4]
Zbrueva's repertoire included roles in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1894), Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (1907) and The Snow Maiden (1894),[5] Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki,[6] Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina,[7] Ruslan and Lyudmila,[3] Prince Igor, and Carmen.[4][8]
Personal life
editZbrueva died in Moscow in 1936, aged 67 years. Archival recordings of Zbrueva have been included on several anthology recordings, including Singers of imperial Russia. Volume III (1992, Pearl Records),[9] Great singers at the Mariinsky Theatre (1994, Nimbus Records),[10] Great Singers in Moscow (1996, Nimbus Records),[11] and Rimsky-Korsakov performed by his contemporaries (1999, Russian Disc).[12]
References
edit- ^ Macy, Laura Williams (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. pp. 547–548. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
- ^ "Le Festival Russe à Paris". L'Art Moderne (in French). 27: 166. 26 May 1907.
- ^ a b "Madame Zbroueff". Musical Courier. 57: 9. July 8, 1908.
- ^ a b Barnes, Harold. Singers Of Imperial Russia Vol. 3 - CD Booklet. Pearl CDs.
- ^ Hugill, Robert (23 November 2016). "From social realism to fairy tale: the background to Rimsky Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden". Planet Hugill. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
- ^ Seaman, Gerald R. (2019-08-23). Pëtr Il'ich Tchaikovsky: A Research and Information Guide. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30309-1.
- ^ Taruskin, Richard (2016-04-27). Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume Two: A Biography of the Works Through Mavra. Univ of California Press. pp. 45, note 31. ISBN 978-0-520-29349-6.
- ^ Giroud, Vincent (2015). Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music. Oxford University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-19-939989-5.
- ^ Singers of imperial Russia. Volume III. Volume III., Wadhurst, E. Sussex, England: Pearl, 1992, OCLC 31446969, retrieved 2021-04-09
- ^ Nimbus Records, Great singers at the Mariinsky Theatre., 1994, OCLC 34623582, retrieved 2021-04-09
- ^ Various Artists (1996), Great Singers In Moscow, Internet Archive, Nimbus Records Limited, retrieved 2021-04-09
- ^ Rimsky-Korsakov performed by his contemporaries., Moscow: Russian Disc, 1999, OCLC 43993435, retrieved 2021-04-09
External links
edit- Portrait of Yevgenia Zbrueva as Ratmir in M. I. Glinka’s opera “Ruslan and Ludmila” (1897)[dead link], at Google Arts and Culture
- Zbrueva singing Vanya's aria from A Life for the Tsar, recorded in 1913, on YouTube
