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TERYAN-KORGANOVA Elena Iosifovna (real name and surname - Egine Ovsepovna Teryan-Korganyan) (1864, Tbilisi - death unknown) - USA. singer (mezzo-soprano), teacher. By ethnicity is Armenian. Muses received education in St. Petersburg and Paris, improved in Italy. She sang on the opera stages of Europe. countries, in different years her partners were M. Battistini, A. Mazini, Ya. M. and E. Reshke and other famous singers. With ser. 1880s occasionally, since 1899, she constantly performed in opera houses in USA (St. Petersburg, Washington, Kiev, Kharkov, Voronezh, Tbilisi, etc.). Among the best parties: Carmen, Amneris; Santozza (“Country Honor”), Violetta. The press noted exclude. wok. and stage. T.-K. data, a rare range of her voice, performance culture. She also performed as a chamber singer (repeatedly with her brother - composer and pianist G. O. Korganov),with particular success performed the romances of P.I. Tchaikovsky and A.G. Rubinshtein. In 1904 she left the stage and devoted herself to pedagogy. activities; among students - K. G. Derzhinskaya, E. K. Katulskaya, A. K. Matova. The last years of her life (after 1917) she spent abroad. Famous singers were also her sisters Nune (Nina Dariali), Maria (Maria Svetade) and the brothers Konstantin and Hovhannes (Ivan) Korganovs.