Anegina Yegorovna Ilyina, also known as Ilyina-Dmitrieva, is a chamber and opera singer (mezzo-soprano), teacher, and public figure. She was born on February 3, 1943, in the village of Dyullyukyu in Yakutia, Russia. She later became one of the most prominent vocal artists of the Sakha Republic and was awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR in 1988.
From 1957 she studied in the music department of the Yakut Pedagogical School, now the S. F. Gogolev Yakut Pedagogical College, where her solo singing teacher was A. F. Kostin. From her second year she continued her studies in the vocal department of the music school attached to the Moscow Conservatory from 1959 to 1963, studying with O. P. Pomerantseva. In 1968 she graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory in solo singing, and in 1970 completed an assistant traineeship under N. L. Dorliak.
From 1969 she was the leading soloist of the Yakut Musical and Drama Theater, which later became the Yakut Musical Theater, then the Yakut State Opera and Ballet Theater, and from 2001 the D. K. Sivtsev-Suorun Omolloon Theater. She performed more than thirty leading mezzo-soprano roles in opera productions. In 1980–1982 she trained at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in Moscow and also gave solo concerts. Her chamber vocal repertoire includes more than 400 works.
Ilyina sang abroad as part of various delegations in Canada in 1981, Romania in 1984, Mongolia in 1985, Germany repeatedly from 1985 onward, as well as in the United States and Japan. Since 1994 she has taught at the Higher School of Music of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), where she has headed the department of solo singing and operatic training. In 2001 a prize named after A. E. Ilyina-Dmitrieva was established for young talented singers of the republic.
Her stage repertoire included major parts in Russian, European, and Yakut operas. Among them were Olga and the Nurse in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Carmen in Bizet's Carmen, Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, Konchakovna in Borodin's Prince Igor, the Princess in Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka, the Countess in Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, the Nurse in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, Martha in Gounod's Faust, Azucena in Verdi's Il Trovatore, Magdalena in Verdi's Rigoletto, Suzuki in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, and Lyubasha in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride. She also appeared in Yakut and Soviet operas including Nurgun Bootur, Lookut and Nyurgusun, Lullaby, The Return, Song of Manchary, and Son of the Sun.
Her recordings include three large-format solo records issued by Melodiya: Romances, Yakut Songs (1968), Yakut Songs (1971), and Arias and Duets from Operas with the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra conducted by Mark Ermler (1981), as well as four original compact discs. She won prizes at major vocal competitions, including second prize at the 22nd International Vocalists' Competition Prague Spring in 1967, a prize at the chamber performers' competition in Kyiv in 1968, and third prize at the 20th International Vocalists' Competition in Munich in 1971.
Alongside her artistic career, Ilyina was active in public life. She served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 10th convocation from 1979 to 1984, became a member of the presidium and academician of the Academy of Spirituality of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) from 1996, belonged to the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, served on the theater's artistic council, headed the Yakut Musical Society, and was rector of the University of Culture, a branch of the Moscow Law Institute. She received numerous honors, including People's Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the USSR, People's Artist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the State Prize of the Yakut ASSR named after P. Oyunsky, and the State Prize of the RSFSR named after M. I. Glinka. Her name was included in the first biographical dictionary Musicians of the World, published by the Great Russian Encyclopedia in 2001.
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