Tamara Milashkina
Tamara Andreyevna Milashkina (born September 13, 1934) is a Russian lyric and dramatic soprano.
Born in Astrakhan, she studied with Elena Katulskaya, and became a member of the Bolshoi Opera in 1958, where she remained one of the leading sopranos until 1989. The soprano also appeared at the Teatro alla Scala (Lida in La battaglia di Legnano, in 1962), and throughout Europe. She toured extensively with the Bolshoi, including to the Metropolitan Opera, in 1975. In 1973, she received the title, People's Artist of the USSR.
Mme Milashkina recorded extensively for Melodiya, including a 1974 recording of her most famous role, Lisa in Pique-dame, now on Philips, opposite her husband, tenor Vladimir Atlantov.
References
- Who's Who in Opera, edited by Maria F. Rich, Arno Press, 1976.
- The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, Simon and Schuster, 1987. ISBN 0-671-61732-X
External links
Commercial videography
- Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (Arkhipova, Atlantov; Simonov, Pokrovsky, 1980) [live] VAI
- Tchaikovsky: Pique-dame (Obraztsova, Atlantov, Mazurok; Simonov, Bartov, 1983) [live] Kultur