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| Kabaivanska Raina | soprano |
Raina Kabaivanska was born in Burgas, Bulgaria and completed her vocal and piano studies at the Conservatory in Sofia. In 1958 she moved to Italy and developed her technique with Zita Fumagalli. |
She started her brilliant career with her debut at La Scala in 1961. Since that moment she has been singing in the most famous theatres of the world: Paris, Venice, Naples, Moscow, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Salzburg, Munich, Hamburg, Budapest. |
Her extensive repertoire includes works ranging by Verdi (Don Carlo, Otello, La traviata, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, I Vespri Siciliani, Ernani, Messa da Requiem), Puccini (her interpretations of Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut and Tosca are incomparable), Wagner (Rienzi), Cilea (Adriana Lecouvreur), Donizetti (Roberto Devereux, Faust), Massenet (Manon), Leoncavallo (I pagliacci), Gounod (Faust), Catalani (La Wally), Cajkovskij (La dame de pique, Evgeni Onegin), Richard Strauss (Capriccio), as well as works by Bellini, Zandonai and Tosti. |
She has recently added to her repertoire opera's such as La vestale by Spontini, Gluck's Armide, Janacek's Macropulos Case and Jenufa, Britten's The Turn of the Screw, Poulenc's La voix humaine, Lady in the dark, that witness her will of enrichment and pursuit. |
Her long career has brought her many awards: the «Premio Bellini» (1965) for her interpretation of Beatrice di Tenda; the «Viotti d'oro» (1970); the «Premio Puccini» (1978); the «Premio Illica» (1979); the «Premio Monteverdi» (1980), the «Premio Lorenzo il Magnifico» from the Medici Accademy for the Arts in Florence (1990), the «Premio Abbiati» (1995) from the Italian critics, and the Premio Internazionale dell'Operetta (1999). |
She is renowned for her interpretations of Tosca, Manon, Francesca da Rimini and Madama Butterfly which has led her to be named 'The heroine of Melodramma'. |
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