/ world in the present day information/ At present’s opera lovers and musicians know nearly nothing about Tsvetana Tabakova / 1905 – 1936/, and he or she is among the many most exceptional skills of the Bulgarian opera faculty. No much less proficient than Kabaivanska or Ana Tomova. On the identical time, she created just for Bulgaria. In simply 12 seasons, she was reincarnated in 30 roles of various fashion and character, and in every of them she was excellent, unattainable. Sadly, her flight is lower quick out of the blue. She died barely 31 years outdated. She left us no technically sound recordings to get pleasure from her magnificent voice, her nice musicality and singing tradition, which all her contemporaries discuss, which galvanized even the nice Chaliapin.
He was born on January 27, 1905, underneath the non secular signal of Aquarius, in Breznik. She studied on the Vrachan Women’ Excessive College, which she left to enter the Music Academy in Sofia, within the singing voice of Ivan Vulpe, one of many founders of the Sofia Opera. Whilst a first-year pupil, she was invited to debut on the Opera – she was entrusted with the position of Frederic from “Mignon” by Ambroise Thoma, this excellent French lyric opera, forgotten in the present day, which was carried out with nice success in Sofia on the time. The directorate found a treasure in her individual – position after position was stuffed: Mercedes from “Carmen”, Musetta from “Bohemia”, Tatiana from “Eugene Onegin”, Neda from “Pagliacci”, Flora from “La Traviata”, Leonora from “The Troubadour”. , Rachel in The Jewess, Tosca, Aida… Quickly she turns into the undisputed prima donna. Furthermore, he’s solely 27 years outdated! It turns into a favourite of the viewers and the critics. Her identify instantly ranks subsequent to the names of the long-established leaders of our nationwide scene: Petar Raichev, Hristina Morfova, Ana Todorova, Mikhail Popov, Hristo Brambarov, Sabcho Sabev…
Fyodor Chaliapin heard her at a live performance and was fascinated by her voice, magnificence and stage expertise, invited her to affix him in his tour with “Prince Igor” in Covent Backyard, London, within the main soprano position of Yaroslava. At the moment, she was declared by Sofia music lovers because the “queen of the opera scene”. And certainly, all the pieces is regal together with her: the voice, the determine, the gait, the manners, the air. She is just gifted by God! Her voice, a dramatic soprano, with a variety of almost three octaves, is distinguished by a specific heat, mixed with a spectacular brilliance within the higher register, able to hanging dynamic contrasts with a gradual, clean construct to climaxes. And her repertoire – wealthy and assorted – speaks of a fantastic tradition, capability to work and mental immersion. Tsvetana Tabakova sings Verdi, Mozart, Wagner and Vladigerov with ease. The latter considers her to be his “preferrred Queen Mary” from “Tsar Kaloyan. The achievements are additionally magnificent, similar to Maddalena from “Andre Chenier”, Sister Angelica by Puccini, Elsa in “Lohengrin”, Adriana Lecouvreur by Chilea, Agatha in “The Magic Archer”, Donna Anna in “Don Juan”, Santuzza, Rezia from “Oberon”. , Lisa of Queen of Spades…Actually a formidable repertoire. In our time, few singers after her handle to do these troublesome roles…
In 1927, he did a brief specialization in Paris underneath the well-known pedagogue Dupre. He gave a number of live shows with nice success. It may keep within the West, to be a world-class star, as a result of her expertise is basically big, however she returned to her homeland, as most of our greatest singers did at the moment – they stayed to construct the Bulgarian opera, the Bulgarian musical tradition. Not like most of the following generations… Returning to Sofia, she sings brilliantly in “Aida”. Detractors and envious individuals / purely in Bulgarian!/ determine to injure her. They accuse her of getting allowed impure tones within the excessive register. This even causes a scandal and dialogue within the press! / Within the Thirties, the Sofia Opera was already a longtime establishment, which, along with the Nationwide Theater, was within the heart of public and media consideration, in contrast to lots of in the present day’s, which deal solely with low genres and popular culture and systematically simplify and methodically the viewers.
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