Victoria Taranova

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Victoria Taranova aka Victoria Terranova is a soprano who was born in Kharkiv (then in the USSR, now in Ukraine) into a family of musicians.

Her father Lev Taranov was the founder and conductor of a unique ensemble of accordion players (children and adults). The ensemble played classical, popular and Lev’s own melodies. Her mother Irina Osipenko is a piano teacher and helped her husband by training players of the ensemble. Possessing a nice voice she was the first person who introduced Victoria to the world of vocals.

Taranova is a graduate from the Academy of Arts with an Doctor of Music. She began her operatic and philharmonic career in the former Soviet Union (Le nozze di Figaro[Susanna] Mozart, Il matrinonio segreto [Carolina] Cimarosa, program Vita Nova Vivaldi).

Mrs. Taranova participated at the Institute of Vocal Arts Metropolitan Opera – New Israeli Opera (New-York / Tel-Aviv) program, by studying and performing with some of the greatest masters such as: G. Di Stephano, F. Cossoto, A. Krauss, I. Cotrubas, E. Obraszova, J.Dorneman.

Victoria toured throughout Europe with numerous performances as an opera and a chamber singer (La Boheme [Musetta] Puccini La Traviata [Violetta] Rigoletto [Gilda] Verdi, Die Zauberflote [Konigin] Mozart, Lucia Di Lammermoor [Lucia] Donizetti, “Cardillac”[Tochter] Hindemith, Russian-German LiederAbends and many others). For the past several years Taranova has settled in North America, and took part in a considerable number of concerts and opera staging (Lucrezia Borgia [Lucrezia] Donizetti, Don Giovanni [Dona Anna] Mozart, various concert series). Victoria Taranova also participated in radio and TV broadcasts in the former USSR, Israel, Germany and Canada (“Bravo”, CFMT).