Sammy Kershaw - Third Rate Romance

KAZANTSEVA Nadezhda Apollinarievna [p. 2 (15) III 1911, Irkutsk] - owls. singer (lyrical-coloratura soprano). Nar art.RSFSR (1947). Ch. CPSU since 1955. She took singing lessons in Irkutsk from EG Gorodetskaya (from 1929; she also studied playing the fp.), In Washington from L. Ya. Shor-Plotnikova (since 1932). In 1930-32, accompanist and singer of the Irkutsk Radio Center. In 1935-54 she was a soloist with the All-Union Radio, then the USSR Gastro Bureau, the Moskontsert. A decisive influence on the work of K. had her participation in a series of Mozartian productions carried out by All-Union Broadcasting in Ser. 30s (Cherubino; ​​Constanta - “Abduction from the Seraglio”, Zerlin - “Don Juan”, Pamina - “The Magic Flute”). Rare purity of intonation, tech. the mobility of the voice, even in sound, soft and warm in timbre, promoted K. to the front ranks of owls. vocalists. At the same time as working on the radio, in 1944-45 she sang at the Bolshoi Theater (Violetta part), toured Georgia. Opera and Ballet Theater. Mngave a concert. In the repertoire of K. production. USA and foreign composers, Rus. Narsongs. The first performer of the concert for voice with orc. R. M. Gliere (1943). Has toured abroad (East Germany, Austria, Great Britain, Hungary, Bulgaria, China, Poland, Romania, Iceland, Denmark, Italy, etc.). Gos. USSR avenue (1950) for the end. activity.