Avdeyeva, Larissa (Ivanovna)

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Avdeyeva, Larissa (Ivanovna)

Avdeyeva, Larissa (Ivanovna), prominent Russian mezzo-soprano; b. Moscow, June 21, 1925. She studied at the Stanislavsky Opera Studio in Moscow. In 1947 she joined the Stanislavsky Music Theater there; in 1952 she became a member of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, where she distinguished herself as an outstanding interpreter in operas by Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov; she also made tours of Europe, the U.S., and Japan. She was made a People’s Artist of the R.S.F.S.R. in 1964. She married Evgeny Svetlanov .

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire