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Raina Kabaivanska

In this Bulgarian name, the patronymic is Yakimova and the family name is Kabaivanska.
Raina Kabaivanska
OMRI
Райна Кабаиванска
Kabaivanska as Tosca with Enrique Baquerizo in Madrid, 2004
Born (1934-12-15) 15 December 1934 (age 89)
Burgas, Kingdom of Bulgaria
CitizenshipBulgaria and Italy
Education Bulgarian State Conservatoire
Occupations
  • Operatic soprano
  • academic teacher
Years active1957–present
AwardsOrder of Merit of the Italian Republic (2000)
Websiterainakabaivanska.net

Raina Yakimova Kabaivanska OMRI (Bulgarian: Райна Якимова Кабаиванска; born 15 December 1934) is a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the leading lirico-spinto sopranos of her generation, particularly associated with Verdi and Puccini, although she sang a wide range of roles.[1]

Biography

Born in Burgas, Bulgaria, she studied in Sofia with Prokopova and Yosifov, and made her debut at the Bulgarian National Opera in Sofia as Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin in 1957.[1] The following year, she left for Italy for further studies with Zina Fumagalli-Riva in Milan and with Giulia Tess in Vercelli. Two years later she made a breakthrough in Fano, Italy, as Nedda in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. In 1961, she gave her first performance at La Scala in Milan, as Agnese in Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, opposite Dame Joan Sutherland.[1] She sang widely in Italy, Genoa, Venice, Parma and notably in Turin in 1973, as Elena in I vespri siciliani, in the only production ever directed by Maria Callas.

In 1962, she made her debuts at both the Royal Opera House in London, as Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, as Nedda. She went on performing at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, the Budapest Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the San Francisco Opera, the Dallas Opera, the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, etc.

She also appeared in a few opera films, notably Pagliacci, opposite Jon Vickers in 1968, Il trovatore, opposite Franco Bonisolli, in 1975, and Tosca, opposite Plácido Domingo, in 1976.

Kabaivanska has received the following international opera awards: Bellini (1965), Viotti d'Oro (1970), Puccini (1978), Illica (1979), Monteverdi (1980), the Award of Accademia 'Medici' – Lorenzo il Magnifico, Florence (1990), the Grand Prix 'A Life, Dedicated to the Music', Venice (2000).[2]

Kabaivanska delivered a performance of the "Ave Maria" from the opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi to open the funeral mass for Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Italy on 8 September 2007.

Kabaivanska also played the Comtesse in Tchaikowsky's Queen of Spades, in a series of five performances (31 January – 19 February 2008) at the Capitole de Toulouse.

She is a professor in Italy at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, at the Vecchi-Tonelli Music Institute in Modena, and at New Bulgarian University in Sofia.[3] She is also a jury member for many prestigious competitions all over the world.

Repertory

Composer Opera Role
Giuseppe Verdi Don Carlo Elisabeth of Valois
Otello Desdemona
La traviata Violetta Valery
Falstaff Alice Ford
Il trovatore Leonora
La forza del destino Leonora
Les vêpres siciliennes La Duchesse Hélène
Ernani Elvira
Requiem Soprano
Giacomo Puccini Madama Butterfly Cio-Cio San
Turandot Liu
Tosca Floria Tosca
Manon Lescaut Manon Lescaut
Richard Wagner Rienzi Irene
Francesco Cilea Adriana Lecouvreur Adriana
Gaetano Donizetti Roberto Devereux Elisabetta
Charles Gounod Faust Marguerite
Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci Nedda
Jules Massenet Manon Manon Lescaut
Alfredo Catalani La Wally Wally
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades Lisa
Eugene Onegin Tatiana
Richard Strauss Capriccio Countess
Riccardo Zandonai Francesca da Rimini Francesca
Gaspare Spontini La Vestale Julia
Christoph Willibald Gluck Armide Armide
Leoš Janáček The Makropulos Case Emilia Marty
Franz Lehár The Merry Widow Hanna Glawari

Honors

Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic – December 7, 2000

References

  1. ^ a b c Celletti, Rodolfo (2001). "Kabaivanska, Raina". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 13 (2nd ed.). Macmillan Publishers Limited. p. 298.
  2. ^ Premio "Una vita nella musica", given by Associazione "Omaggio a Venezia" and "Gran Teatro La Fenice".
  3. ^ "Raina Kabaivanska - Career". rainakabaivanska.net. Retrieved 7 December 2021.

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