Nadezhda Andreyevna Obukhova (Russian:Наде́жда Андре́евна Обу́хова, 6 March 1886 – 14 August 1961) was a Russian and Sovietmezzo-soprano. She was awarded the titlePeople's Artist of the USSR in 1937. PianistHeinrich Neuhaus said that "he who even once hears her voice, will never forget it...".[1]Asteroid9914 Obukhova is named for her.[2]
Obukhova was born inMoscow, and came from an artistic family. Two of her uncles were professional singers, one of whom was the opera director of theBolshoi Theatre. Her grandfatherAndrian Mazaraki [Wikidata] was a notedpianist, and her great-grandfatherYevgeny Baratynsky was a poet of Pushkin circle.[3]
Her family had some wealth, and would often spend summers inNice, France, where Obukhova received her first singing lessons fromEleanora Lipman. In 1907, she was enrolled at theMoscow Conservatory, where she was instructed byUmberto Masetti.[3]
After her graduation, she found work singing in various concerts aroundRussian Empire, but she did not make heroperatic debut until 1916. Her operatic debut was in the role of Pauline inTchaikovsky'sThe Queen of Spades at the Bolshoi. She quickly became a popular singer, appearing in a number of other productions includingCarmen,Samson and Delilah (opera),The Tsar's Bride (as Marfa and as Lyubasha),The Snow Maiden,Der Ring des Nibelungen (as Fricka),Marina (byEmilio Arrieta),The Love for Three Oranges andSadko.[3]
She was a performer in the first radio concert in the Soviet Union, which took place in 1922. She sang Pauline's aria fromThe Queen of Spades. She gave other radio concerts, including the first broadcast from the Bolshoi Theatre, a production ofThe Tsar's Bride withAntonina Nezhdanova,Leonid Speransky andVasily Petrov.[3] Increasingly through the 1920s and 1930s, she began to incorporatepopular songs into her concert repertoire. In 1937 she made her firststudio recording, of pieces fromThe Queen of Spades.[3]
Obukhova retired in 1943. After her retirement, she continued to give occasional concerts and radio performances. She died inFeodosia in theCrimea in August 1961, two months after giving her last concert.[3][4]
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