Klavdia Tugarinova (Mezzo-Soprano) (Perm 1877 - ? 1940)

Born in 1877, she was a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, from 1902 to 1917, and was distinguished as a Wagner singer as well as an interpreter of roles in the Russian repertoire like Olga in ''Eugene Onegin'', the Countess in ''The Queen of Spades'' and, with Chaliapin as Boris Godunov, Fedor, a role in which she was heard in Paris in 1909, when Diaghilev brought the troupe of the Imperial Opera to the Theatre Sarah Bernhardt. She spent the years following her retirement as a teacher of singing, first in Petrograd and later in Stalingrad. She died after 1940.

Chronology of some appearances

1902-1917 St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre

RECORDINGS FOR SALE

G&T, St Petersburg 1905 (early)

Rose, little rose (Dargomyzhsky) with Maria Michailova3-4068 2808L

Pique dame (Tchaikovsky): Evening already with Maria Michailova 24376 2809L

Pique dame (Tchaikovsky): O viens, mon doux berger with Maria Michailova 7-34005 2810L

Maiglöckchen und die Blümelein (Mendelssohn) with Maria Michailova 24385 2811L

The little bird sang and sang (Rubinstein) with Maria Michailova 3-4067 2813L

Wanderers Nachtlied (Rubinstein) with Maria Michailova 24386 2814L

Doubt (Glinka) with Maria Michailova 24380 2815L

The sea-gull's cry (Grodskij) with Maria Michailova 3-4069 2816L

Eugen Onegin (Tchaikovsky): Did you hear with Maria Michailova 24382 2817L

Be silent, rye (Gurilev) with Maria Michailova 24383 2878L

Fair maiden (Dargomijsky) with Maria Michailova 24384 2880L