Lyubov Kazarnovskaya (Soprano)
Ljuba (Ljubov) Kazarnovskaya (born 1958) is a Russian operatic soprano who
has sung leading roles in opera houses around the world. She has recorded for
Deutsche Grammophon, Philips, and Naxos Records, amongst others. She has her own
music show on Russian television and a weekly one-hour radio program,
"Vocalissimo", on Radio Orphej.
Ljuba Kazarnovskaya was born in Moscow and trained at the Gnessin State
Musical College and the Moscow Conservatory. She made her professional debut in
1981 as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre. After
singing leading roles at that theatre as well as the Bolshoi Theatre and the
Mariinsky Theatre, she made her international opera debut in 1990 at the
Salzburg Festival. Earlier that year she made her US debut as the soprano
soloist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's performance of Shostakovich's
Symphony No. 14.
Between 1991 and 1992 Kazarnovskaya made her house debuts at the Royal Opera
House in London, the Vienna State Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Her Metropolitan Opera debut was on 26 December 1992 as Tatyana in Eugene
Onegin. She sang the role in three performances that season and returned there
in the 1994 season when she sang Desdemona in Otello and Nedda in Pagliacci
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