Bogacheva Irina: Biography and Creativity

Today we will tell you who Irina Bogacheva is. Her biography and features of her creative activity will be described below. This is a Soviet and Russian chamber and opera singer, teacher. She was born in Leningrad in 1939.

Biography

Irina's family always respected and appreciated spirituality and education. Her father though was a doctor of technical sciences, but he knew several languages and instilled love for them to his eldest daughter. In the future, this knowledge to the future artist was very useful, since it is known that it is customary to perform operas in the language of writing. It is possible that Irina inherited her talent from her great-grandfather on her father's side, a burlac on the Volga. According to the stories of my grandmother Irina, he was the owner of a terrific bass.

Not immediately fate led Irina into art. Early parents have died, whose health has undermined the survived blockade. I had to go to study on the seamstress, constantly moonlighting to help the sisters. But Irina managed to sing and art word.

The St. Petersburg Conservatory opened the doors to our heroine, thanks to the singer of the Kirov Theater Margarita Tikhonovna Fitingof, who then taught at the Palace of Student Youth and brought the future celebrity to this institution. Even in her student years, Bogacheva became a laureate of the Glinka competition. After that she was offered the work of two leading music theaters of the Soviet Union. Bogacheva Irina chose the Leningrad Theater of SM Kirov (now the Mariinsky Theater). The debut took place in 1964. The beginning artist performed the part of Polina in "The Queen of Spades". Very soon Irina Bogacheva will wake up to the world celebrity.

In 1967, at the competition in Rio de Janeiro received the first prize. A year later she was trained by the famous Italian maestro Jenarro Barra. The first of the Soviet students, she was able to sing on the stage of the famous "La Scala". Her Ulrika in the opera "The Ball-Masquerade" made a furor both among the audience and critics. Simultaneously with the opera career, Irina's concert activity is also rapidly gaining momentum. Her tours are held around the world.

Opera and TV

Despite world recognition, it was at the Mariinsky Theater that Irina Bogachyova created female images that became the property of opera. This is Azucena from "Troubadour", and Marina Mnishek from Boris Godunov, and Konchakovna from Prince Igor, and Amneris from Aida, and Martha Skavronska from the modern opera Peter the First, and Carmen in the same production of Bizet, And, of course, one of Bogacheva's favorite roles is the Countess of The Queen of Spades.

Blazing in the leading roles, Bogacheva Irina is magnificent and in small roles. Her Helen Bezukhova and Akhrosimova are beautiful in the different productions of War and Peace, the image of Babulenka in the opera The Gambler by FM Dostoyevsky 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 opera of the Bastille. Especially for the actress Dmitry Shostakovich, romances were written for the verses of Marina Tsvetaeva, which she performed with great success around the world. "Satire" on the verses of Sasha the Black - the vocal cycle (also the creation of Shostakovich) - had no less deafening success.

Irina Petrovna cooperated with television a lot. She took part in musical and documentary films, in programs dedicated to her beneficiaries. Irina Bogacheva is also a singer who has released several CDs. All of them deserve a lot of praise from fans and critics.

Teacher

The St. Petersburg Conservatory became for our heroine a place not only for study, but also for work. For almost forty years she has been teaching at this school. Being a pupil of the legendary Iraida Pavlovna Timonova-Levando, Irina Bogacheva herself was able to become an excellent teacher. Her students - Olga Borodina, Natalia Evstafieva, Yury Ivshin and others - are diplomats and laureates of international and All-Russian competitions. And Olga Borodina has long been considered one of the world's best opera divas.

Talent

The creative life of a people's artist requires the strength that is attached to her love of art. The singer is one of those people who have a high sense of duty for God-given talent. Irina Bogacheva said in an interview: "We can not influence the course of time, but fate is in the hands of every person."

She is Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prizes of the RSFSR and the USSR. Also in its 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 a part of Iraida Pavlovna's class. She considers her mentor to be a thoughtful smart teacher, a sympathetic person and a second mother. Our heroine and her teacher for the rest of her life was bound by deep creative and human communication.