Description

ELENA KATULSKAYA (ODESSA, 2 JUNE, 1888 – MOSCOW, 20 NOVEMBER, 1966)

A lyric-coloratura soprano who sang both in opera and in concert, she was born in 1888 in Odessa, where she began her musical studies. By 1905, she was teaching and studying in St Petersburg, where she worked with Ippolit Prjanishnikov. From 1907 to 1909, she studied at the local Conservatory with Mme Iretskaja. She made her debut at the Conservatory Theatre as Mrs Ford (Nikolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor), following which she sang from 1909 to 1913 at the Mariinsky Theatre and from 1913 to 1946 at the Bolshoi in Moscow, where she had first sung as guest in 1911. From 1948, she taught at the Moscow Conservatory. As a writer, she published essays on the opera and edited a collection of vocal literature. She died in 1966.

Chronology of some appearances

1909-1913 St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre

1913-1946 Moscow Bolshoi Theatre

TRACKLIST

1. Mireille (Gounod) O legere hirondelle Gramophone 2-23749
2. Night (Mussorgsky), romance  Gramplasttrest 8340
3. Richard Lion’s Heart (Modest) Loretta’s Aria Gramplasttrest 15847
4. Rigoletto (Verdi) Caro nome RAOG 4407
5. Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov) Cradle song – Sleep went along the river Gramophone 2-23762
6. Serenade (Schubert), song Gramplastrest 8303
7. Song of a Maid (Verstovsky), romance Gramplasttrest 4990
8. A Swan (Grieg), song Gramplastrest 7501
9. Thais (Thomas) Duo de la source – Baigne d’eau with Lev Sibiryakov Gramophone 2-24218
10. The breeze (Bleikhman), romance Gramophone 2-23727
11. The girls-beauties (Pushkin) Gramplastrest 4986
12. The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) Suzanna’s Aria Gramplasttrest 15846
13. The mountain tops (Wanderers Nachtlied (Rubinstein) with Lev Sibiryakov Gramophone 2-24226
14. The nightingale, captivated by a rose (Rimsky-Korsakov) romance Gramophone 2-23728
15. The Snow Maiden  (Rimsky-Korsakov) I am alone here RAOG 4402
16. The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov)  My soul did not know love till now with Nikolai Shevelev Gramophone 024096
17. The Snow Maiden (Rimsky-Korsakov) With friends to gather berries RAOG 4401
18. They loved each other (Myaskovsky), romance Gramplasttrest 8342
19. Where are you, an asterisk (Mussorgsky), romance Gramplasttrest 8339
20. You are not here ( Kushelev-Bezborodko), romance Gramplasttrest 12659
21. You do not disturb yourself, do not disturb (Dunaevsky), song Gramplasttrest 15601
22. Yumoreska (Dvorak) song Gramplastrest 3667