Lyudmila Shirina (; born 1 August 1948, in Bilozerka, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian operatic soprano, a member of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater.
Life Born in Bilozerka, Shirina played several instruments including accordion and piano. She liked gymnastics, volleyball and basketball. Shirina studied voice at the Odesa Conservatory with M. V. Golyatovskaya. She won the International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Shirina has been a member of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater from 1975, later also in charge of the company. She has toured in Europe to France, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy and Spain, and further to Canada, Japan and Afghanistan. In 1990, she took part in a recording of a gala concert "The Golden Crown" of the second International Festival of Opera at the theatre, conducted by Vasyl Vasylenko. She appeared in Odesa in the title role of Tchaikovsky's The Maid of Orleans in 1994.
In 1977, she received the Grand Prix at the International Vocal Competition in Toulouse (France). She was awarded the title People's Artist of Ukraine in 1993, and was named Chevalier of the Order of Princess Olga in 1998.
Roles Shirina's operatic roles include: Verdi Aida – title role Il trovatore – Leonora Un ballo in maschera – Amelia Otello – Desdemona Puccini Tosca – title role La bohème – Mimi Leoncavallo's Pagliacci – Nedda Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana – Santuzza Tchaikovsky The Queen of Spades – Lisa The Maid of Orleans – title role Eugene Onegin – Tatiana Iolanta – title role Hulak-Artemovsky's Zaporozhets beyond the Danube – Oksana M. Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka – title role N. Arkas' Katerina – title role Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko – Lyubka
References
External links
Odesa Opera Theater hisyory Official website