Maria Guleghina - "Russian Cinderella"
Many know it as a "Russian Cinderella". Singer Maria Guleghina today is considered one of the world's most famous opera divas.
"The Vocal Miracle"
The magnificent Russian soprano, who has "Verdi music" in her blood, she became famous for her amazing performance of the Tosca and Aida parties in the works of the same name.
Biography
Maria Agasovna was born on the ninth of August 1959year in Odessa in the family of an Armenian and Ukrainian. She graduated from the local conservatory in the vocal class. Her teacher was A. Dzhamagortsyan. Maria Guleghina, whose biography is closely connected with Belarus, began her main activity on the stage in 1983, as a soloist of the Minsk Academic Theater. A year later she was invited to La Scala, where she made her debut in the opera "The Ball-Masquerade". Her partners were many celebrities, including Pavarotti, with whom she performed for the first time at this world-famous stage under the direction of Maestro Gavazzeni.
A warm and strong voice, which by naturereceived Maria Guleghina, her acting skills turned her into a welcome guest of many world theaters. It is interesting that the star of the world opera scene, not knowing the equal in the performance of the dramatic soprano parties, debuted as an artist at the age of sixteen, but not a singer, but ... a dancer. She performed a gypsy party in the opera "Traviatta", which was put by students of the Odessa Conservatory. The fact is that Maria Guleghina graduated from the ballet school and only after that she tried her hand at the vocal. At first she studied as a contralto, then as a mezzo-soprano and only then she showed herself as a dramatic soprano.
Professional career
In La Scala, Guleghina took part in thefourteen productions, including the performances "Two Foscari" and "Tosca", "Theodore" and "Macbeth", "The Queen of Spades" and "Manon Lescaut", as well as "Nabucco" "The Power of Destiny" staged by Riccardo Muti, etc. After her debut at the Metropolitan Opera, where Maria Guleghina took part in the production of "André Chenier" together with Luciano Pavarotti in 1991, the singer appeared on this stage more than a hundred and thirty times, including performances in "Aida", as well as "Norma" and "Adrienne Lecouvreur."
In the same 1991, the "Russian Cinderella" debuted inThe Vienna opera was staged by André Chenier. Here she sang the parties Lisa and Tosca, as well as Elvira in "Ernani", Aida and many others. Even before her appearance on stage at Covent Garden, where she performed in the "Fedora" with Placido Domingo, the opera diva took part in the Barbican Hall in the concert performance of the immortal work of Ernani along with the Royal Theater Company. After this, an invitation was made to speak at Wigmore Hall.
In 1996, lovers of the opera could enjoy hervoice on stage Arena di Verona. Here, for the performance in the Nabucco, the role of Abigail Maria Guleghina was awarded the Zanatello Prize. Later, she sang many times in this theater.
Personal life
Surprisingly, this woman is beautifultwo images coexist. She manages to easily combine in her turbulent and at times unpredictable life two great roles: a great singer and a talented mother. Her daughter - already an adult Natasha from her first marriage - today helps her mother in many matters. A ten-year-old son Ruslan gives her the opportunity to feel the joy of maternal love to the end. And Maria Guleghina never concealed that it was her children, and not the big fees and main roles that were and are the most important in her life. Such peaks in the beloved profession, which conquered the "Russian Cinderella", managed to reach only a few women. For almost thirty years of work she managed to sing in all the world famous theaters. Its arrival at any point is an event for this country.
The husbands of Maria Guleghina were very different. She was first married at the age of eighteen. As a result, Natasha was born. After that, she married with a famous pianist, whose name is still wearing. It was with him that in 1989, after leaving the Soviet Union, she moved to Hamburg. In 2010, the diva was combined with a third marriage with a famous wrestler and coach of the Russian team.
Long-standing insult
In 1986, in Moscow, Guleghina took part in theCompetition Tchaikovsky. Then she took only the third place, although she deserved a gold medal, which for quite certain reasons she was not awarded. Many, probably, would have arranged such a result, but not Maria, a fighter by nature. After so "unsuccessful" in her opinion of the speech and undeserved "condemnation" in Moscow, the opera diva left for Minsk, where for a time it was performed by leading parties at the Opera and Ballet Theater.
World Recognition
Maria Agasovna is regularly speaking onworld scenes. Among her partners are such famous singers as Placido Domingo and Leo Nucci, Samuel Reimi and Jose Cura, Renato Bruison and many others. She was accompanied at different times by the orchestras led by conductors Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Zubin Meta, Mutti, Levine, as well as Valery Gergiev and Claudio Abbado.
Guligina is the winner of numerous awardsand premiums. The singer was awarded the Golden Medals of Maria Zamboni and the festival in Osaka. She does a lot of social work. For her work Maria Agasovna was awarded the Order of St. Olga - this is the highest award awarded by the Russian Orthodox Church. She was presented to the singer by Patriarch Alexy II. In addition, Goulegin is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. She is also an honorary member of the PKK.
