The most famous opera singers of the world

Famous opera singers of the world are the basis of all classical vocal art. Successful performance of arias depends on the level of skill that is formed over the years. As a rule, famous opera singers began to study music in their childhood, studied at the music school, and then at the conservatory. Especially gifted went on an internship in "La Scala" - the Milan Opera Theater, which is a kind of "mecca" of vocal art. The legendary scene performed works of great composers such as Donizetti, Giuseppe Verdi, Bellini, Giacomo Puccini. The most famous opera singers performed arias from "Madame Butterfly", "Turandot" and other masterpieces of opera on the stage "La Scala". The Milan Theater was founded in 1778 and since then has been an excellent school for beginners.

Recognition of the public

Their contribution to the world culture of famous opera singers Make, performing at the most prestigious stages with crowded halls. Opera art is becoming more popular every day, interest in it is growing all over the world. The public tries not to miss a single performance, in which famous opera singers and singers take part. And after the presentation, grateful spectators present the performers with bouquets of flowers, thus expressing their admiration.

The artist's popularity opens doors to the most prestigious theaters of the world, such as the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Vienna Opera House or the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. Contracts are usually concluded for several seasons at once.

Performances with the participation of recognized performers are often painted for a year ahead, viewers can get acquainted with the repertoire in advance, in January to buy a ticket for the performance, which is planned, for example, in August and, thus, meet with a beloved singer or singer. The connoisseurs of opera art know all the world's masterpieces and can choose the performer to their taste.

The most famous opera singers of the world

Talented performers, recognized masters of vocals, make up a certain creative group. Famous opera singers are, first of all, soloists who carry high art to the masses. Vitruous execution of arias is their "visiting card", the public goes to Placido Domingo, Maria Bieshu or Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

There are times when high art brings together talented performers from the category of "famous opera singers." So it was when a magnificent trio was formed - Pavarotti Luciano, Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo. The most unsurpassed, famous opera singers, three tenors, began to perform together, what made a real success in the world of music. The audience accepted with enthusiasm and gratitude the joint work of the masters.

Luciano Pavarotti

Opera opera singer of Italian origin, with a lyrical tenor, was one of the most famous performers of the 20th century. Thanks to his vocal skill, extraordinary ease of sound, cheerful character Pavarotti became a star of the stage at the age of 24 years. Popularity was promoted by frequent appearance in television programs, as well as publications in the press.

Luciano was one of the few opera singers who participated in events dedicated to pop music. He gladly sang chanson, hits of fashionable composers - and all this, accompanied by humorous reprises and humoresks. Pavarotti had many friends in the world of rock music, he repeatedly held joint concerts, which were called "Pavarotti and friends." However, the singer invariably remained in his basic status - an academic performer.

Luciano Pavarotti was actively engaged in charitable activities and was even repeatedly awarded with the Italian government's prizes for his participation in projects to raise funds for political refugees and the organization "Red Cross." The singer for more than forty years of career managed to do a lot in opera, his name is forever inscribed in the Golden Fund of world culture.

Jose Carreras

Carreras Jose, an operatic singer of Spanish descent (tenor), was born in 1946 in Barcelona. Has a unique voice timbre. His interpretations of works by Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi are widely known. In 1972 he first appeared on the American stage in Puccini's opera "Cio-Cio-san", as the main character, Lieutenant Pinkerton.

Two years later, Carreras played the role of the Duke of Mantua in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto.

By the age of 28, the singer performed more than two dozen roles in the operatic classical repertoire. And in 1987 Jose Carreras suffered a terrible calamity: doctors diagnosed him with blood cancer. Acute leukemia interrupted the singer's career for more than a year. Eventually, the disease receded, and Carreras organized a fund to promote research into therapeutic methods against cancer.

After recovery, Jose went to Moscow, where he took part in a charity concert dedicated to the earthquake in Armenia, together with Montserrat Caballe. Subsequently, the tenor repeatedly came to Russia with tours. Jose Carreras finished his performances on the opera scene in 2009.

Placido Domingo

Famous lyric-dramatic tenor, opera singer of Spanish origin. He was born in 1941. He is a conductor-director in the Opera of Los Angeles and the Washington Opera. He is one of the three most famous tenors in the world, along with Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti.

In his more than half a century career, Placido Domingo performed 140 operatic parts, which determines his absolute primacy. In addition, the singer often participates in performances, being behind the conductor's panel. Recorded more than 100 opera performances with his participation, where Domingo performs as a soloist, and also sings a duet. Twenty-one times the great tenor opened the season in the Metropolitan Opera, ahead of himself in this very Enrique Caruso.

Performers of world renown

The flowering of opera took place in the 20th century. All the most significant works were performed in the 30s of the last century. Almost all popular opera singers of the world participated in musical performances of the 20th century. Their success was determined by public recognition. However, in the second half of the 19th century there were also famous opera singers. Many of them lived a long, fruitful life.

Performers of classical music of the 19th century

In the list of the names of famous opera singers of the century before last:

• Irena Abendrot (1872-1932), soprano. Performed at the Vienna Opera.
• Pasquale Amato (1878-1942), baritone. He performed at the Milan Opera "La Scala" and the New York Metropolitan Opera Theater.
• Karel Burian (1870-1924), tenor. He performed at the Vienna Opera.
• Eugenio Burzio (1872-1922), soprano. She was a soloist of "La Scala".
• Davydov Alexander (1872-1944), Russian tenor. He performed in many opera houses.
• Maria Dolina (1868-1919), contralto. Soloist of the Mariinsky Theater.

Performers of the 20th century

In the following list, the names of famous opera singers of the 20th century:

• Elizabeth Shumskaya (1905-1987), soprano. Bolshoi Theater, Moscow.
• Gottlob Frick (1906-1994), the bass. Dresden Opera, Covent Garden.
• Tatiana Troyanos (1938-1993), mezzo-soprano. The Metropolitan Opera.
• Ivan Petrov (1920-2003), bass. The Bolshoi Theatre.
• Jesse Norman, born. 1945, the soprano. "La Scala."
• Jose Carreras, born. 1946, tenor. All the world's opera houses.
• Maria Callas (1923-1977), soprano. The Metropolitan Opera.
• Montserrat Caballe, b. 1933, the soprano. Covent Garden.
• Mario del Monaco (1915-1982), tenor. World opera theaters.

Famous Russian opera singers

During the 20th century, several generations of talented performers were replaced in Russia.

Today, Russia's famous opera singers make up a significant part of the Golden Fund of Russian Musical Culture.

Legendary bass of Russia

Shalyapin Fyodor Ivanovich (1873-1938) - Russian opera singer, who possessed an unusually strong bass, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the New York Metropolitan Opera Theater. People's Artist, was the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater in Leningrad. Comprehensively gifted, he was engaged in graphics, sculpture and painting. He had a great influence on the development of world opera art.

Soprano

Vishnevskaya Galina Pavlovna (1926-2012) - opera singer of Russia, who has a soprano of unique purity, an actress, theater director and teacher. She was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. Throughout her long life she was engaged in fruitful activity, since 2006 she was the chairman of the jury of International competitions of opera artists. At the same time Galina Vishnevskaya played in the film "Alexander" Sokurov, showing himself as a talented dramatic actress.

Kazarnovskaya Lyubov Yuryevna was born in 1956. Opera singer of Russia, soprano. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and the Gnessin Institute. Professor, Doctor of Science. She made her debut as Tatyana Larina in "Eugene Onegin" by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Performed leading roles in "Pagliacci", "Iolanthe", "Bohemia" and many other operas. She was a soloist of the Mariinsky Theater from 1986 to 1989.

Netrebko Anna Yurievna - opera singer of Russia, soprano. In 1993 she was invited to work by Valery Gergiev, chief conductor of the Mariinsky Theater. In 2002, Anna Netrebko first performed in New York on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera Theater. Currently, Netrebko performs in the performances of leading opera houses in Europe and the United States.

Mezzo-soprano

Elena Vasilievna Obraztsova was born in 1939. The possessor of the voice is mezzo-soprano, the opera singer of the Russian Federation. People's Artist of the Soviet Union, a vocal teacher. Winner of the Lenin Prize in 1976. In 1990 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. A year earlier, during a tour of the cities of America, the singer made a success, acting as Marina Mnishek in the opera Boris Godunov, after which she became the star of the opera scene.

Arkhipova Irina Konstantinovna (1939-2010) - opera singer, winner of the mezzo-soprano voice, actress and teacher, People's Artist of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor, Luareate of the Lenin Prize. Irina Arkhipova got world fame for her brilliant interpretation of the Carmen party due to her gift of stage reincarnation. From 1956 to 1988 she was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater.

Famous tenors of the first half of the 20th century

Ivan Kozlovsky (1900-1993) is an opera singer with a lyrical tenor, director. Hero of Socialist Labor, People's Artist of the Soviet Union. The best works: Duke in the opera Rigoletto, Indian guest in the opera Sadko, Lensky in Eugene Onegin, foolish in the opera Boris Godunov (this role is considered the best role of Ivan Semenovich).

Sergei Lemeshev (1902-1977) is a Russian opera singer with a lyrical tenor. Laureate of the Stalin Prize, People's Artist of the Soviet Union, director and teacher. Since 1931, the soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. He performed the aria of Count Almaviva in the opera The Barber of Seville, the Duke in Rigoletto, the starlet in the Golden Cockerel, the Indian guest in Sadko. In 1951, Sergei Lemeshev acted as the director of the opera La Traviata at the Leningrad Opera House. Then, in 1957, Lemeshev became director of the opera "Werther" Massenet and played the main role in it.

Siberian nugget

Khvorostovsky Dmitry Alexandrovich - opera singer, baritone. He was born in 1962 in Krasnoyarsk. He is People's Artist of Russia. He participates in numerous music projects around the world, among which the opera "Don Juan", staged in Geneva, and Donizetti's "Love Potion" at the Metropolitan Opera.

Dmitri Hvorostovsky does not stop at what he has achieved in the field of opera, he actively collaborates with composers who write modern music, waltzes, patriotic songs, lyrical works. The singer has a cycle of songs of the war years, which were created at different times. Among them "The grove under the mountain was smoking" (composer V. Basner, words of M. Matusovsky), "Oh, roads!" (Music by A. Novikov, poems by L. Oshanin), "Dark Night" (N. Bogoslovsky's music, V. Agatov's poems), "Russian Field" (Y. Frenkel's music, I. Goff's words) and many others.

Vocal skill today

Famous Russian opera singers are welcome guests at art festivals. For many years the history of the opera in the Russian state has already been replaced by several generations of talented performers. The current generation continues to please the public. Opera art is still in demand all over the world.