D A Smirnov - Rigoletto: La donna è mobile

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$ 29

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Sep 4, 2010 Sold Date

Aug 25, 2010 Start Date

£ 20 Start price

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D.A. Smirnov (tenor)

Smirnov graduated from chorister to amateur singer to serious study and then to the Bolshoi in 1904, where he was so highly admired as to be cast as Dante in the premiere of Rakhmaninov's Francesca da Rimini. In 1907 Smirnov was invited to join Rakhmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov along with Chaliapin and the dramatic soprano Félia Litvinne for Diaghilev's display of Russian music in Paris. Then in 1908, he sang the false Dmitri in the Russian impresario's Paris production of Boris Godunov, again at Drury Lane in Beecham's legendary 1914 Season and from 1910-17 was principal tenor of the Mariinsky Company in St. Petersburg. After the Revolution his tours were largely concentrated outside Russia and he finally settled in Riga as a teacher, only to find himself unwittingly back in the USSR when the Soviets took the city in 1944.

12" Red St Petersburg G&T 022132 [431s] with orchestra

Rigoletto: La donna è mobile (Verdi)

Condition: A copy with some slight signs of wear that has little or no effect on playing.

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