Description

EKATERINA OREL (1884 – 1935)

This lirico coloratura soprano likely made her debut in 1902. In 1903, she appeared at the St. Petersburg Italian Opera. From 1906 to 1908, she performed at the St. Petersburg National House, and in the 1910–1911 season, she appeared with the New Opera. She also sang in Kislovodsk (1904), Tbilisi (1904–1905), Kharkov (1905), Moscow (Theatre of Solodovnikov, 1905–1906), Kiev (1912–1913), and Ekaterinoslav (1913).

Her best-known roles included Antonida in A Life for the Tsar and Volkhova in Sadko. She performed alongside such distinguished artists as Eugenio Giraldoni, Nikolai Figner, Iosif Tomars, Dmitri Smirnov, and Feodor Chaliapin.

Chronology of some appearances

1903 St. Petersburg Italian Opera

1906-1908 St. Petersburg National House

TRACKLIST

1. Faust (Gounod):  Jevel song 23176 329z G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
2. La zingara, Romanza (Fra l’erbe cosparse) (Donizetti) 23181 347z G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
3. Traviata (Verdi): Ah, fors’e lui…Sempre libera 23183 349z G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
4. Boheme (Puccini) Si, mi chiamano Mimi G&T 23182 348z-A-2z St. Petersburg 1902
5. Fra Diavolo (Auber) Zerlina’s cavatina G&T 23187 357z-A-2z St. Petersburg 1902
6. Snow maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov): Aria 23282 568C G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
7. M’ama, non m’ama, Romanza (Mascagni) 23322 599C G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
8. Pastorale (Bizet) 23377 386z G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
9. Life For The Czar (Glinka): Aria 23379 388z G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
10. I do not grieve (Glinka) G&T 23281 567c-Ao-2z St. Petersburg 1902
11. Ruslan and Lyudmila (Glinka): I’m sad 23280 566C G&T, St. Petersburg 1902
12. Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky): In your house with Leonid Savransky, Nikolai Bolshakov and Antonina Panina 24499 6465L G&T, St Petersburg 1907
13. Hamlet (Thomas) Partagez-vous mes fleurs G&T 23186 355z-AO-2z St. Petersburg 1902
14. How painful it feels (Rimsky-Korsakov) G&T 23282 568c-A-2z St. Petersburg 1902
15. Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) Quando rapito inestasi Zonophone 63043
16. Nightingale (Kropivnitsky) Zonophone 63044