Kovaleva Galina Biography

Shostakovich Biography Kovaleva Galina Aleksandrovna - singer, colorator soprano. Shostakovich in the life history of Galina Kovaleva is something from a fairy tale about Cinderella. After graduating from school, the girl came from a small provincial town to Saratov to enter a pedagogical institute, but turned into the conservatory building on the way and decided to listen to listening at her own peril and risk.

She did not know at all at all at all, but by hearing she learned many opera arias and romances that were transmitted on the radio.

Galina began to sing on the stage of the local opera Theater on the stage of the Saratov Conservatory. Soloist of the theater. She became Kirova Mariinsky on the occasion: someone from the Leningrad leadership heard her during the tour of the Saratov opera and invited to move to Leningrad. Often she got the title parties in the operas of Rimsky-Korsakov-Martha, Princess-Lebed, Volkhova, Shamakhan queen, but Kovaleva herself admitted that Lyudmila from Glinka’s opera loves the party most of all.

Galina Kovaleva in a concert on October 23. Large hall, the symphony orchestra of the Philharmonic, the choir of the chapla. Conductor Boris Khaikin. Shostakovich with the theater troupe, the singer often went on tour. She was offered to go to the Bolshoi Theater, but Kovalev would not go to Moscow, frightened by talking about backstage intrigues. She did not want to throw her class at the Leningrad Conservatory, where she taught with go and until the end of her life.

Galina Kovaleva will represent Leningrad and the whole country at international competitions: in Sofia, where he will take the first place in Toulouse, where he will receive the Grand Prix, in Montreal, where he will again win the “gold”. Western critics compare it with Maria Callas, write about "dazzling vocal technique, a brilliant timbre, an incredible range." All these qualities, starting from a year, can also be appreciated by visitors to Leningrad Philharmonic concerts.

Galina Kovaleva at home. With Philharmonic Orchestras, she performs arias from her opera repertoire, repeatedly sings Glier's concert, soloes Verdi and Rachmaninov’s “bells”, takes part in prefabricated programs, in organ evenings and concerts of Russian folk instruments orchestras. The last time in the Great Hall Galina Kovaleva performed in November, in the solo program there were arias and romances of Russian and Italian composers.

In addition to the notes of the Aryans and romances, the voice of Galina Alexandrovna was preserved on the film of the film "Singer", shot about Kovaleva in the year on Leningrad television.