Tatyana Tugarinova was a Russian singer, a dramatic soprano, and People's Artist of the RSFSR. She was born on May 15, 1925, in Torzhok and died on October 2, 1983, in Moscow.
She graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics in 1946, the Kalinin Music College in 1951, and the Moscow Conservatory in 1957, where she studied with Natalia Dorliak.
From 1956 to 1980 she was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Among her finest roles were Yaroslavna in Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, Fevroniya in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya, Elisabetta in Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos, and Aida in Verdi's Aida.
With the Bolshoi Theatre company she toured in the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, and other countries. She also sang in many opera houses throughout the country and gave solo concerts, including repeated appearances in Kalinin and Torzhok.
Tugarinova's recorded performances included Lyubka in Sergei Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko (1960), Lida in Verdi's The Battle of Legnano (1960, concert performance recording), Voislava in Rimsky-Korsakov's Mlada (1963), Yaroslavna in Borodin's Prince Igor (1969), Susanna in Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina (1974), the Old Ataman's Wife in Mieczyslaw Rauchwerger's The Snow Queen (1975), and Larina in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1979).
In 1970 the Melodiya label issued a solo record with eight opera arias recorded by the singer, featuring music by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Verdi, Boito, and Puccini. In 1974 a solo disc of thirteen old Russian romances performed by Tugarinova was released. The Moscow Regional State Scientific Library named after Nadezhda Krupskaya preserves discs with her recordings of romances by Tchaikovsky, including “Oh, Sing That Song Again,” “Mignon's Song,” “The Canary,” “If Only I Had Known,” and “Go to Sleep.”
Some of her recordings remained unpublished, including Verdi's Macbeth and The Battle of Legnano, recorded for All-Union Radio in the early 1960s, in which she sang Lady Macbeth and Lida respectively. Also unpublished was a recording of the Bolshoi Theatre production of The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya made during the opera company's 1967 tour in Montreal, with Tugarinova in the title role.
She was buried at Khimki Cemetery.
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