19.12.2018
For a great contribution to the development of culture
Certificates of Merit signed by Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky have been awarded to three of the Mikhailovsky Theatre’s musicians: the opera company’s leading soloists Maria Litke and Tatyana Ryaguzova, and rehearsal accompanist Marc Veiner. Our colleagues were recognized for their „great contribution to the development of culture and many years of fruitful work“.
Tatyana Ryaguzova has been singing at the Mikhailovsky Theatre since 2009. Our audience know her for her roles as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin, Leonora in Il trovatore, Káťa Kabanová in The Storm, Mimi in La Bohème, and Rachel in La Juive.
As a musician, Tatyana Ryaguzova stands out for her „noble features and psychologically astute singing“. In the opinion of music critics, she „exploits all the possibilities of powerful, dramatic, dynamic singing which is also full of true psychological insight“.
The opera company’s rehearsal pianist Marc Veiner, a graduate of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory, has been working at the Mikhailovsky Theatre since 1998. Accompanists are very rarely mentioned in the press, so it is his colleagues who are in a position to give the most accurate picture of his professional approach.
„Marc Veiner is a uniquely gifted man who hears music in a particular way. He is extremely attentive to a singer’s voice,“ say his colleagues. „For him, the voice of a singer is part of an aural canvas which forms in his mind and rouses him to action. Marc can make a difficult score so easy that it just sinks in by itself. Using his imagination, he makes a singer’s voice sound just as it should, conveying his infectious sense of the music and inspiring you to perform it as accurately and sensitively as possible, revealing hidden nuances and harmonic combinations. It’s no exaggeration whatsoever to call this ‘routine’ work in the rehearsal room creative.“
Maria Litke joined the Mikhailovsky Theatre opera company in 2006. A singer with an extensive repertoire, on our stage, Maria has sung lyric and dramatic soprano roles in operas by Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Halévy, Dvořák, Janáček, and Tchaikovsky.
Journalists call Maria Litke the „granddaughter“ of Elena Obraztsova in The Queen of Spades: she has sung the part of Liza in many performances in which Obraztsova played the Countess. Her voice has been called a „crystalline soprano“ with „very beautiful and expressive overtones“, which „soars compellingly on the crest of musical waves“.
As a musician, Tatyana Ryaguzova stands out for her „noble features and psychologically astute singing“. In the opinion of music critics, she „exploits all the possibilities of powerful, dramatic, dynamic singing which is also full of true psychological insight“.
The opera company’s rehearsal pianist Marc Veiner, a graduate of the Rimsky-Korsakov St. Petersburg Conservatory, has been working at the Mikhailovsky Theatre since 1998. Accompanists are very rarely mentioned in the press, so it is his colleagues who are in a position to give the most accurate picture of his professional approach.
„Marc Veiner is a uniquely gifted man who hears music in a particular way. He is extremely attentive to a singer’s voice,“ say his colleagues. „For him, the voice of a singer is part of an aural canvas which forms in his mind and rouses him to action. Marc can make a difficult score so easy that it just sinks in by itself. Using his imagination, he makes a singer’s voice sound just as it should, conveying his infectious sense of the music and inspiring you to perform it as accurately and sensitively as possible, revealing hidden nuances and harmonic combinations. It’s no exaggeration whatsoever to call this ‘routine’ work in the rehearsal room creative.“
