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Russian opera singer (1925-2010)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Irina Arkhipova)
- piano, voice
- dramatic mezzo-soprano
- opera
- Soviet Union, Russia
- opera singer, music teacher, politician, opinion journalist
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2024-04-08 14:26:23
Sol Hurok, 2024
This Week in Classical Music: April 8, 2024. Sol Hurok, Impresario. He was neither a musician nor a composer, but Sol Hurok did for classical music in America more than almost any other person we can think of. Hurok was born Solomon Gurkov on April 9th of 1888 in Zarist Russia and moved to New York in 1906. A natural organizer, he started with left-wing politics in Brooklyn; that didn’t last long as he switched to representing musicians: Efrem Zimbalist and Mischa Elman, the talented violinists who also emigrated from Russia, were among his first clients. He represented the Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin for several years (he also worked with Nellie Melba and Titta Ruffo). He then turned to dance: Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, and Michel Fokine became his clients, as well as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. In 1942, he organized one of the first tours of the […]
2021-07-29 14:00:12
The 50-Year-Old Virgin
Joan of Arc inspired many splendid works of art including Tchaikovsky’s Orleanskaya Deva which Trove Thursday presents today in a 1975 broadcast featuring the great Russian mezzo Irina Arkhipova and her husband tenor Vladislav Piavko.
2020-11-07 00:00:00
Moussorsky KHOVANSHCHINA - Khaikin 1974
Modeste Moussorgsky KHOVANSHCHINA (Rimsky-Korsakov completion)Alexei Krivchenya (Prince Ivan Khovanski)Vladislav Pyavko (Prince Andrei Khovanski)Alexei Maslennikov (Prince Vasili Golitsin)Viktor Nechipailo (Boyar Shakloviti)Alexander Ognivtsev (Dosifei)Irina Arkhipova (Marfa)Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi TheatreBoris Khaikin (conductor)Melodiya/HMV SLS 50233 stereo LPs [P] 19745 FLAC files (one for each act) + booklet/libretto and Gramophone review The Gramophone review (November 1975) states: "...at the center, as it should be, is Marfa. In her, the conflicts of the plot meet - awareness of the changing order, religious feeling, a sense of the supernatural (her Divination scene is superbly done), and a powerful concept of duty, all struggling for supremacy and expressed in a strong female sensuality. It is one of the greatest dramatic parts in Russian opera, one to which all Russian mezzos long to match themselves; and Irina Arkhipova is in full command of it. Her sneering comments to Andrey as he is discovered […]
2020-09-10 14:00:32
Five years later
Trove Thursday began on September 10, 2015, so today we celebrate the podcast’s fifth birthday with a diva-starry Aïda double-bill: Galina Vishnevskaya vies for her soldier-hero with Irina Arkhipova, then Jessye Norman wins the guy (but loses her life) in spite of Mignon Dunn.
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