Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov

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Dmitri Alexeievich Smirnov (born November 7/19, 1882 in Moscow, Russia; died April 27, 1944 in Riga, Latvia) was a Russian operatic tenor. He was a student of Ėmiliya Pavlovskaya and Alexander Dodonov. He made his début as Gigi in Michele Esposito’s La Camorra at the Hermitage Theatre in 1903. He was first a member of the Bolshoi company in Moscow, from 1904 to 1910, and then of the Imperial Opera, St Petersburg, from 1910 to 1917. He made his French début at the Paris Opéra in 1908. His performance here led to an invitation to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, where he sung from 1910 to 1912. Direct competition with the tenors Enrico Caruso and John McCormack, who were also singing at the Metropolitan Opera at the time, resulted in limited success. From the 1920's he directed more of his focus on teaching.

[edit] Recordings

He left 90-odd recordings, most of them made in the 1910s and 1920s.

[edit] Sources

  • Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5

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