Biography of Valeria Barsova

Soviet and Russian opera singer. Lyric-collapse soprano. People's Artist CCCR. Public figure. The laureate of the Stalin Prize Biography was born Vladimirov Kaleria Vladimirovna in Astrakhan in the family of a printing employee on June 13, I barely turned the year on when he died, ”said Valeria Vladimirovna. I studied at the gymnasium, at a music school, performed in amateur performances and concerts ...

”At 17, a graduate of a music school and gymnasium with a certificate of“ home teacher ”chose the musician’s path and left her hometown. In the year, Valeria graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in two classes at once: piano and solo singing. And she studied with her older sister - professor of conservatory Maria Vladimirovna Vladimirova. In his student years, she already sang on a professional scene in many Moscow theaters.

For the first time in Moscow, for the first time in Moscow, for the first time, went to the opera. The meeting on the opera stage with Fedor Chaliapin is an emergency replacement of the sick A. Nezhdanova in the summer season of the year in the Garden Theater of the Hermitage also was of considerable importance in the approval of the aesthetic principles that Valeria Vladimirovna adhered to.

Since the year, Valeria Barsova has salted at the Bolshoi Theater. At the same time, in years, she sang in the opera studio of the Bolshoi Theater under the leadership of K. with him it was easy for her to sing and play, they were both excellent actors. Later, her regular partner was Sergey Yakovlevich Lemeshev. In April, she sang Lyudmila in the new performance “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by the Bolshoi Theater, and in February she participated in the first Soviet renewal of “Ivan Susanin”.

These are “key” for the Russian repertoire of the party, which does not exclude the outstanding role of Barsova in the creation of two dozens of opera parties that she spent on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. The touching and at the same time full of amazing purity and femininity, the tragic image of Martha from the “royal bride” crings this series of achievements of the singer in Russian opera classics.

Barsova's performances were distinguished by special artistry and sincerity of experiences. Possessing a beautiful mobile voice and filigree vocal technique, she masterfully combined the gravity of the Russian vocal school with the Italian Belcanto school. Barsova became famous as a chamber singer. Barsova concert performances were distinguished not only by the freshness of the repertoire, but also to the thoughtfulness of the programs.

Concerts of the 30s of the 30s are especially interesting in this regard, in which the musical wealth of the peoples of the USSR, in particular, is reflected in Aria from national operas. No less interest, along with Italian Arians from the operas of Rossini, Donitsetti, Bellini, Verdi, were performed by the singer Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, English, Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, Spanish, Greek folk songs.

For each of them, the artist was able to find her “outfit” and the method of submission, to reveal her national character. One of the first singer began to create thematically slender programs. Such was one of her first independent concerts in the column hall of the House of Unions, dedicated to "Dance in Vocal Music." And the next year, her husband was arrested and shot, the head of the K.

RVS bacteriological laboratory did not get married. In addition to a rich stage life, Valery Barsova was engaged in active social and political activities. In the harsh season of the Great Patriotic War, the singer repeatedly sang for fighters on the front line, for the wounded in hospitals. On April 16, Valeria Vladimirovna said goodbye to the Bolshoi Theater and left for Sochi.

There, on Black Sea Street, she built a cottage with the intention of opening a vovular studio.

Since the year, for twenty years, Barsova often visited the hospitable southern city, lived here for several months a year and took an active part in the public and cultural life of the resort, while engaged in vocal and pedagogical activities. From the year, Barsova taught at the Moscow Conservatory named after Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and the last year, with the rank of professor. In the year, a memorial monument was opened on the grave of the famous Soviet singer.