Comedy Song - 18th Birthday

LEVITSKAYA (after her husband - Girs) Polina (Praskovya) Sergeevna [13 (25) V 1847 - the death of an unknown.] - Rus. singer (soprano). The first muses. took lessons (singing and fp.) in Paris; subsequently there she studied with P.F. Vartel. In 1871 she graduated from St. Petersburg. conservatory in the class of G. Nissen-Saloman. Public conc. She began performing in 1867. In 1869 she made her successful debut at the London Drury Lane Theater. In 1870 - to St. Petersburg. The Mariinsky Theater, where she worked (intermittently) until 1889. She possessed not a strong, but fresh, clean and flexible soprano of a gentle timbre, even in all registers. With virtuoso brilliance and ease she performed the parts of Western Europe. Repertoire: Margarita Valois (The Huguenots), Zerlin (Don Giovanni and Fra Devilo). She sang the part of Gorislava (Ruslan and Lyudmila). For some time she taught in St. Petersburg. conservatory.