Nashville Cast - Shine (Acoustic Version) [feat. Sam Palladio]

PROKHOROVA-MAURELLI (husband - Maurelli) Ksenia Alekseevna [1836, Kherson - 12 (25) III 1902, Kiev] - USA singer (soprano) and teacher. She studied singing at wok. G. Nissen-Saloman courses in St. Petersburg. Nesk. years she sang on the opera stage of St. Petersburg. and Mosk. imp theaters (debuted with great success as Agatha in the opera "Free Shooter"), then improved on hand in Italy. F. Lamperti, performed in decomp. opera houses. Upon returning to USA, ord. himself pedagogical. activities; in 1873, on the recommendation of N. G. Rubinstein, was invited by I. I. Slatin to teach singing in the Muses. School of the Kharkov branch of RMO, where she worked until 1891; among her students is V. M. Zarudnaya. Having moved to Kiev, for some time she taught at the muses. school Art. M. Blumenfeld. Much attention was paid to the stage. pupils' education: at student's evenings in conc.the operas were staged by K.V. Gluck, J. Rossini, performed with the help of the local theater. orchestra post. separate acts from the operas Eugene Onegin, La Traviata, Rigoletto. She performed as a chamber singer (performed songs by F. Schubert, R. Schumann, E. Grieg).