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[battersby.livejournal.com]

What are some good Russian opera singers? I'm interested in both male and female singers. Thank you!

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[kingzgurl.livejournal.com]

current or past?

my favorite russian opera singer is galena vishnevskaya, but she's older now, and not singing anymore.

[battersby.livejournal.com]

both. I listen to all forms of opera, and I'd like to broaded my listening.

[marmazetka.livejournal.com]

Dmitry Khvorostovsky. the bestest ever. Now he's in La Skala.

[wordsofstealth.livejournal.com]

hmm, it'd be fun to write an opera in russian about the revolution (whicheverone)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

There was plenty of that stuff during the Soviet era.

[kasak.livejournal.com]

Fyodor Chalyapin was one of the most famous opera singers ever to live. During the Gold Age of opera in the beginning of the 20th century, Chalyapin was the rare exemplary bass in an art dominated by tenors. Chalyapin was a self-taught singer, receiving nearly no formal training, and still managed to be remembered to this day as the archetypical Boris Godunov.

[rodmonga.livejournal.com]

current: Elena Obraztsova, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya

[rodmonga.livejournal.com]

Ivan Kozlovsky

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Alive: Dmitry Khvorostovsky (mentioned above,) Zurab Sotkilava, Marina Domashenko. I could also recall the late-Soviet time operatic stars: Galina Vishnevskaya, Maria Bieshu.
Elena Obraztsova and Lyubov Kazarnovskaya mentioned above are fine, but I don't like them at all (they both are quite tasteless, IMVVVHO.)
Dead: Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Fyodor Shaliapin.

[ekeme-ndiba.livejournal.com]

You forgot Irina Arhipova.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

No I didn't, I just happened to hate her :))))

[vatrooshkin.livejournal.com]

In my opinion nowadays the best are Dmitry Khvorostovsky and Luybov Kazarnovskaya

[lal-balu.livejournal.com]

Nadezhda Obukhova

Here is a page: http://russia-in-us.com/Music/GRV/Obukhova/index.htm
But this is the only CD I know of that's available in the US: http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1112888

[akagroundhog.livejournal.com]

"Here is a singer who simply has it all: A voice of astounding purity, precision and scope, extensive dynamic and tonal range, imagination, insight and wit — all combined with a dazzling charisma that makes it all but impossible to look away when she is performing"
   — San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.annanetrebko.com/

http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/opera/soloist/netrebko