Olga Borodina
Olga Vladimirovna Borodina (Russian Ольга Владимировна Бородина; born July 29, 1963 in Leningrad) is a Russian opera singer (mezzo- soprano).
Life and work
" Too uninteresting voice" heard the young Olga Borodina as she sang at the Music School of the Leningrad Conservatory. It took three attempts before she was admitted to study singing.
Olga Borodina made her debut in 1992 at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden alongside Plácido Domingo - as Dalila in Samson et Dalila. They often returned to this house and was often engaged in Scala and Met, in San Francisco, Washington and Chicago, at the Salzburg Festival, in Rome, Ravenna, at the Liceu in Barcelona and at the Opéra National de Paris. My parent company is the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
Roll
Borodina has a wide repertoire and is known for her velvety voice. They preferably sings Russian, French and Italian operas, in some cases also recitals.
Her major roles include La Cenerentola, Eboli in Don Carlos, the Princess in Adriana Lecouvreur and Amneris in Aida in Italian trade, Carmen and the Marguérite in La Damnation de Faust in French, as well as the Marfa in Khovanshchina, Olga in Eugene Onegin, as well as the Marina in Boris Godunov.
Recordings
The voice of Olga Borodina is also documented on numerous CD and DVD recordings. Was observed Special Russian repertoire, which she recorded primarily with Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Gergiev under, including Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina, Prokofiev's War and Peace and Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky -Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride. Her Russian origin, is the singer very important:
" I'm one of the mad people who need Their roots. I take nourishment from my native country, my motherland. I want my children to study in Russia, Because They Are Russian. I think this is tremendously important. Life But in St Petersburg is becoming tougher by the day and the Russian spirit, the spirituality did what part and parcel of Russian culture, is almost not there any more.
Scandals
The Borodina is considered capricious Diva:
- In 2003, she left the samples of Robert Wilson 's production of Aida at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, because she was dissatisfied with the conductor Antonio Pappano. O-Ton Borodina " to a strange approach to this opera ." The Amneris took Ildiko Komlosi.
- In 2004, she moved at short notice from a Carmen production at La Scala back because the recitatives were spoken and not sung. In their place, sang Julia Gertseva.
- 2006 sparked the director of the Vienna State Opera - the day of the premiere of L' italiana in Algeri - the contract with the Borodina " for this and all other productions ," after it had come to massive inconsistencies during rehearsals. Einspringerin was Kammersängerin Agnes Baltsa.
The debut of the Borodina at the Vienna State Opera is now - scheduled for March 2013 - under the new management. You should sing Amneris in Aida. As a conductor Pinchas Steinberg is provided.
Family
The Borodina has three children and is married to his third marriage with 14 years younger bass Ildar Abdrazakov.