Patsy Cline - Crazy (v2)

PETROVA Faina Sergeevna [1 (13) I 1896, village Simbily, now Dalnekonstantinovsky district of the Gorky region. - 4 IV 1975, Washington] - Sov. singer (contralto) and teacher. Failed art.RSFSR (1937). In 1914 she graduated from Washington. conservatory in the class of fp. by A. B. Goldenweiser and by the class of singing by V. M. Zarudnaya. In 1918-28 and 1933-49 the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater; at the same time. in 1919-22 she sang at the Bolshoi Theater Opera Studio at hand. K. S. Stanislavsky. P. possessed a strong, juicy voice of the chest timbre. Parties: Countess (The Queen of Spades), Love (Mazepa), Princess (Mermaid), Konchakovna, Lel, Ratmir, Carmen, Amneris, etc. Vela Conc. activity, participated in Spanish. oratorial productions. propagandized abroad op. USAand Soviet composers. In 1928 she performed in France, in 1929-33 she sang at the Metropolitan Opera Theater (USA), toured the cities of America, Canada and Europe. countries. In 1926-28 and from 1945 she taught in Washington. conservatory (professor since 1945), in 1952-53 the head. Department of Solo Singing. Among her students are L. I. Galushkina, N. S. Isakova, A. K. Matyushina.