Description

EUGENIA ZBRUYEVA (MOSCOW, 26 DECEMBER (7 JANUARY), 1868 – MOSCOW, 20 OCTOBER, 1936)

She studied singing at the Moscow Conservatory and, in 1894, made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre as Vanya in Glinka’s Life for the Tsar. Her repertoire included Anne Boleyn in Saint-Saëns’ Henri VIII, Carmen, Lei (The Snow Maiden), Ratmir (Ruslan and Lyudmila), Konchakovna (Prince Igor), and Marfa in Khovanshchina.

She first performed the role of Marfa at the Mariinsky Theatre, where she sang from 1905 to 1917. In June 1913, during one of the seasons organized by Diaghilev, she performed Marfa in some of the first Parisian performances of Khovanshchina alongside Chaliapin.

In 1910, Zbrueva sang Erda in guest performances of Das Rheingold and Siegfried in Munich and also concertized extensively throughout Russia. In 1915, she was appointed professor of singing at the Petrograd Conservatory.

TRACKLIST

1. Life for the Tsar (Glinka): My poor horse fell in the field 023006 100½y G&T, St. Petersburg 1903
2. The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov): Clouds plotted with thunder 023009 101y G&T, St. Petersburg 1903
3. Dream on the Volga (Arensky): Cradle song 023010 102y G&T, St. Petersburg 1903
4. Faust (Gounod): Versez vos chagrins 023011 104y G&T, St. Petersburg 1903
5. By the blue sea (Sokolovsky) 023012 105y G&T, St. Petersburg 1903
6. Ruslan and Ljudmila (Glinka): And blazing heat 023020 305s Gramophone, St. Petersburg 1907
7. Ruslan and Ljudmila (Glinka): The wondrous dream of love 023021 306s Gramophone, St. Petersburg 1907
8. Der Erlkonig (Schubert) 023022 308s Gramophone, St. Petersburg 1907
9. Ruslan and Ljudmila (Glinka): She is my life 2-23173 2849r Gramophone, St. Petersburg 1907
10. The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky): Dear friends 2-23174 2863r Gramophone, St. Petersburg 1907
11. Carmen (Bizet): C’est toi? C’est moi! (w. Vitting) 024052 2455c, 024053 2456c Gramophone, St. Petersburg 2-10-11
12. The evening’s golden clounds, Romance (Dargomyzhsky) (w. Davidov & Kastorsky) 024034 420s Gramophone, St. Petersburg 1909
13. Doubt. – Be still, my fears, with ‘cello: R. O. Von Beke, and piano (Glinka) 023043 433s Gramophone, St. Petersburg 11-1909
14. Rusalka (Dargomyzhsky): Hark! the trumpets are sounding… Days of past enjoyment 023064 2027c Gramophone, St. Petersburg 16-9-1910
15. Prince Igor (Borodin): Now the daylight dies 023091 2431c Gramophone, St. Petersburg 23-9-1911
16. Life for the Tsar (Glinka): Light the fires! . Saddle your horses! 023141 2911c Gramophone, St. Petersburg 14-11-1913
17. Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns) Mon coeur s’ouvre a ta voix 33623 2851r G&T, St. Petersburg 1907
18. Faust (Gounod) Versez vos chagrins 2-23447 6738r Gramophone,St. Petersburg 1907