Today we will tell you who Irina Bogacheva is. Her biography and features of creative activity will be described later. This is a Soviet and Russian chamber and opera singer, teacher. Born in Leningrad in 1939.
Biography
In the family of Irina Bogacheva, they always revered and appreciated spirituality and education. Although her father was a doctor of technical sciences, he also knew several languages and instilled a love for them to his eldest daughter. In the future, this knowledge was very useful for the future artist, since it is known that operas are usually performed in the writing language. It is possible that Irina inherited her talent from her paternal great-grandfather, a hacker on the Volga. According to grandmother Irina, he was the owner of an amazing bass.
Not immediately fate brought Irina into art. Early passed away parents whose health was undermined by the experienced blockade. I had to go to study as a seamstress, constantly earn extra money to help my sisters. But Irina managed to engage in singing and artistic word.
The St. Petersburg Conservatory opened the doors to our heroine thanks to the singer of the Kirov Theater Margarita Tikhonovna Fitingof, who taught at the Palace of Students at the time and brought a future celebrity to this institution. Even in her student years, Bogacheva became the laureate of the competition of M.I. Glinka. After which she was offered work by two leading musical theaters of the Soviet Union. Bogacheva Irina chose the Leningrad Theater of S. M. Kirov (now Mariinsky). The debut took place in 1964. The novice artist performed the part of Polina in The Queen of Spades. Very soon Irina Bogacheva wakes up as a world celebrity.
In 1967, she won the first prize at a competition in Rio de Janeiro. A year later, she was trained by the famous Italian maestro Genarro Barra. The first of the Soviet students she got the opportunity to sing on the stage of the famous "La Scala". Her Ulrika in the opera The Masquerade Ball made a splash with both the audience and critics. Along with the opera career, Irina's concert activity is rapidly gaining momentum. Her touring routes run around the world.
Opera and TV
Despite world recognition, it was at the Mariinsky Theater that Irina Bogacheva created female images that became the property of opera. These are Azuchena from Troubadour, Marina Mnishek from Boris Godunov, Konchakovna from Prince Igor, Amneris from Aida, Marta Skavronskaya from the modern opera Peter the Great, and Carmen in the same production by Bizet, and, of course, one of Bogacheva’s favorite roles is the Countess from The Queen of Spades.
Shining in the leading parties, Irina Bogacheva is magnificent and in small roles. Her are beautiful Helen Bezukhova and Akhrosimova in different productions of “War and Peace”, the image of Babulenka in the opera “The Player” by F. M. Dostoevsky is remarkable. In the best female images of the world opera, Irina Bogacheva shone on the most famous theatrical stages of the world - La Scala, the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Theater in Covent Garden, the Bastille Opera. Specially for the artist, Dmitry Shostakovich wrote romances to the verses of Marina Tsvetaeva, which she performed with great success around the world. The "satires" to the verses of Sasha Cherny - the vocal cycle (also the work of Shostakovich) - were no less resounding success.
Irina Petrovna collaborated a lot with television. She took part in music and documentaries, in programs dedicated to her performances. Also Irina Bogacheva is a singer who has released several CDs. They all deserve a lot of praise from fans and critics.
Teacher
The St. Petersburg Conservatory has become for our heroine a place not only for study, but also for work. For almost forty years, she has been teaching at this institution. Being a student of the legendary Iraida Pavlovna Timonova-Levando, Irina Bogacheva herself was able to become an excellent teacher. Her students - Olga Borodina, Natalya Evstafieva, Yuri Ivshin and others - are diploma winners and laureates of international and national competitions. And
Olga Borodina has long been considered one of the best world opera divas.
Talent
The creative life of a folk artist requires the strength that her love of art gives her. The singer is one of those people who are highly characteristic of a sense of duty for God-given talent. As Irina Bogacheva herself said in an interview: “We cannot influence the course of time, but fate is in the hands of every person.”
She is an Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of State Prizes of the RSFSR and the USSR. Also in her arsenal is the Order of Friendship of Peoples and the Order of Honor.
Interesting Facts
The singer notes that she is grateful to fate for becoming part of the class of Iraida Pavlovna. She considers her mentor a thoughtful clever teacher, a responsive person and a second mother. Until the end of her life, our heroine and her teacher were connected by deep creative and human communication.