Another very early morning - coaching Russian lyric diction for some of Rachmaninoff's songs. With all the unspeakable tragedy that is happening right now, it was so hard for me to keep doing it. But then - a few wonderful singers reached out to me and asked for audio recordings and coaching sessions. And as soon as I sat down, opened the scores and started to sing this music and talk about it, I finally felt my motivation to keep going again - for this beauty and in the mem

#nowar #prayforpeace #stopwar Russian Government is not Russian people. Russian Government is not Russian Art. Here are just a few quotes by Leo Tolstoy, the great Russian writer, author of such novels as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", with his thoughts about the phenomenon of war. “war... an event contrary to human reason and all human nature.” «War and Peace», 1863–1868 "Is it not enough space for people to live in this beautiful world, under this immeasurable starry

On February 1st 2022 the world celebrates 100 years from the birth of the great soprano Renata Tebaldi. So I decided to share with you this rare recording of her singing Tatyana's Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" (sung in Italian). #renatatebaldi #tebaldi #eugeneonegin #russianopera #tchaikovsky

Love this photo from one of our Russian music concerts at the Sydney Conservatorium!!! Happy World Opera Day Everyone!!! Photo credit: Olivia Morberger #worldoperaday #operaday #operasinger #operasingerslife #operasingersoninstagram #operasingers #sopranolife #soprano #mezzosoprano #tenor #baritone #russianforsingers #russianphonetics #russian4singers #russianopera #loveopera

It is Halloween time, so we decided to do a little overview of our favorite spooky characters from Russian operas. So keep reading if you are not too scared ... Demon (bass-baritone) from Rubinstein's "Demon". Demon is the fallen angel, cursed by God and by people, he is bored by everything and he hates the whole world. But suddenly he sees the beautiful Georgian Princess Tamara and immediately falls in love with her. She is preparing for her wedding, but Demon orchestrates t

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NEW!!! Russian album by the incredible OLGA Peretyatko-Mariotti!!! Absolutely LOVE the name "Russian Light" - sharing the light of the great Russian music. Brilliant!!! ❤❤❤ #russianmusic #russianforsingers #classicalsinging#russianartsong #russianopera #russiandiction #olgaperetyatko #classicalsinging #opera #classicalsingers #artsong #russianartsong #russianopera #russianforsingers #russiandiction #russian4singers

Many singers find Russian phonetics really confusing. Partially because of a great variety of approaches used by different authors. Some of them use IPA (which can be modern style or old style), others use transliteration, in some books you can even see Russian phonetics explained through Cyrillic letters, and many authors also introduce additional symbols of their own. In the table below we have listed all symbols used just for Russian vowels in different sources. No wonde