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PRESS RELEASE
Washington D.C., September
19, 2005
Belarus is Proud of Its Contribution
Into the World Opera Heritage
On September 17,
2005 Washington National Opera inaugurated its 50th anniversary season by
the premiere of a Giuseppe Verdi opera, I Vespri Siciliani (The
Sicilian Vespers). The audience was most excited about hearing soprano by
Maria Guleghina, national of Belarus.
Maria Guleghina
is one of the most
celebrated and acclaimed sopranos of the world. Her performances are
invariably rewarded with standing ovations throughout the world's foremost
opera houses.
In 1987 she made her
debut in La Scala as Amelia in Un Ballo in Maschera under Maestro
Gavazzeni opposite Luciano Pavarotti.
Her voice of great
power, warmth, thrust and with immense acting ability made her a permanent
and welcome guest everywhere.
At La Scala she has
performed Lucrezia in I due Foscari, Tosca, Fedora,
Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Lisa in Pique Dame, Manon Lescaut,
Abigaille in Nabucco and Leonora in La Forza del Destino
conducted by Riccardo Muti in Tokyo.
She has accompanied
La Scala on two tours to Japan in 1991 and 1999 on which she also performed
solo recitals at the this worlds renown theatre.
Maria Guleghina has performed solo
recitals all over the world including appearances at Gran Teatre del Liceu,
Lille, Sao Paolo, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Suntory Hall, Osaka, Kyoto,
Hong Kong, Rome and Moscow to name a few.
Many of the productions in which she has
appeared have been broadcast on the radio as well as televised. They include
Tosca, Pique Dame, Andrea Chenier, Sly and
Nabucco from the Metropolitan Opera, Tosca, Manon Lescaut and
Un Ballo in Maschera from La Scala, Attila from Paris Opera,
Nabucco from the Vienna State Opera and solo recitals from Japan,
Barcelona, Moscow and Leipzig.
She has appeared with the world's leading
singers and conductors including Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Leo
Nucci, Renato Bruson, Jose Cura and Samuel Ramey, Gianandrea Gavazzeni,
Riccardo Muti, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, Fabio Luisi, Claudio Abbado and
Daniel Oren.
Maria Guleghina
began her professional
career in 1983 at the State Opera in Minsk, Belarus. In 1984
she became a First Prize Winner of the
Glinka Competition. That was the first recognition of her great talent.
Later Maria Guleghina was the recipient of the Giovanni Zanatello Prize for
her debut at the Arena di Verona, Maria Zamboni gold medal, 1999 gold medal
at the Osaka Festival, 2001 Bellini Prize, and the Arte e Operosita nel
mondo prize from Milan.
Belarus is
proud of its contribution into the
world opera heritage embodied by Maria Guleghina, one of the best soprano
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