Evgenia Zbrueva Explained

Evgenija Zbrueva
Other Names:Evegeniya Zbrujewa, Evegenia Zbroueff, Yevgenia Zbruyeva
Birth Name:Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva
Birth Date:26 December 1867 (or January 7, 1868)
Birth Place:Moscow
Death Date:20 October 1936
Death Place:Moscow
Occupation:Singer

Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva (December 26, 1867 or January 7, 1868 – 20 October 1936), in Russian Евге́ния Ива́новна Збру́ева, was a Russian contralto opera singer.

Early life

Zbrueva was born in Moscow, the daughter of composer Pyotr Bulakhov. (Her surname came from her mother's first husband, because her parents were not legally married.) She trained as a singer at the Moscow Conservatory, under E. A. Lavrovskaya.[1]

Career

Zbrueva was a contralto in the Moscow Imperial Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1894, and with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1905 until 1918, including appearances in Paris[2] and Munich.[3] In 1915 she was appointed Professor of Singing at Petrograd Conservatory. She was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1922.[4]

Zbrueva's repertoire included roles in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar (1894), Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (1907) and The Snow Maiden (1894),[5] Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki,[6] Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina,[7] Ruslan and Lyudmila, Prince Igor, and Carmen.[8]

Personal life

Zbrueva died in Moscow in 1936, aged 67 years. Archival recordings of Zbrueva have been included on several anthology recordings, including Singers of imperial Russia. Volume III (1992, Pearl Records), Great singers at the Mariinsky Theatre (1994, Nimbus Records),[9] Great Singers in Moscow (1996, Nimbus Records), and Rimsky-Korsakov performed by his contemporaries (1999, Russian Disc).

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Macy, Laura Williams. The Grove Book of Opera Singers. 2008. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-533765-5. 547–548. en.
  2. 26 May 1907. Le Festival Russe à Paris. L'Art Moderne. fr. 27. 166.
  3. July 8, 1908. Madame Zbroueff. Musical Courier. 57. 9.
  4. Book: Barnes, Harold. Singers Of Imperial Russia Vol. 3 - CD Booklet. Pearl CDs.
  5. Web site: Hugill. Robert. 23 November 2016. From social realism to fairy tale: the background to Rimsky Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden. 2021-04-09. Planet Hugill.
  6. Book: Seaman, Gerald R.. Pëtr Il'ich Tchaikovsky: A Research and Information Guide. 2019-08-23. Routledge. 978-1-317-30309-1. en.
  7. Book: Taruskin, Richard. Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Volume Two: A Biography of the Works Through Mavra. 2016-04-27. Univ of California Press. 978-0-520-29349-6. 45, note 31. en.
  8. Book: Giroud, Vincent. Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music. 2015. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-939989-5. 16. en.
  9. Nimbus Records,