On 4 October the performance of Prince Igor at the historic Mariinsky Theatre is to be dedicated to the seventy-fifth birthday of Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya, People’s Artist of the RSFSR. The Mariinsky internet radio channel will present a recording of the opera Mazepa featuring Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya as Lyubov, while the theatre’s website will be hosting a small photo exhibition to mark the singer’s anniversary.
Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya, an outstanding singer and teacher, was a lead soloist at the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre for almost thirty years beginning in 1976. With her staggeringly beautiful and deep mezzo-soprano voice she was known as a brilliant performer of the roles of Lyubasha in The Tsar’s Bride, Azucena in Il trovatore, Eboli in Don Carlo, Hanna in May Night, Lel in The Snow Maiden and Olga in Eugene Onegin. In addition to her classical opera repertoire the singer also performed roles in operas by contemporaries such as Varvara Vasilievna in Shchedrin’s opera Not Love Alone, Lasochka in Kabalevsky’s opera Colas Breugnon and Zosya in Weinberg’s eponymous opera. Moreover, Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya had an intense schedule of concert performances, appearing with numerous outstanding conductors, among them Eliasberg, Simonov, Rozhdestvensky and Temirkanov. The singer appeared at the Salzburg Festival, performing the role of Marina Mnishek (Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov) with maestro Claudio Abbado. She sang at theatres in Vienna, Hamburg and Toronto. Professor Gorokhovskaya’s pupils at the St Petersburg Conservatoire have included such acclaimed performers as Marianna Tarasova, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Elena Zhidkova.
Mariinsky.FM internet radio is offering a recording of the opera Mazepa in which Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya sings as Lyubov. Other roles are performed by Yevgenia Tselovalnik (Maria), Georgy Zastavny (Mazepa) and Mikhail Kit (Kochubei). The Mariinsky Orchestra was conducted by Valery Gergiev. The recording dates from 1992.
The opera may be heard at www.mariinsky.fm on 3 and 4 October.
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