Tamara Milashkina

Tamara Andreyevna Milashkina, née Mirnenko (Russian: Тамара Андреевна Милашкина (Мирненко); born 13 September 1934) is a Soviet and Russian lyric and dramatic soprano.[1]

RIAN archive 855343 Viktor Nechipaylo and Tamara Milashkina in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Falstaff

Born in Astrakhan, she studied with Elena Katulskaya, and became a member of the Bolshoi Opera in 1958, where she remained one of the leading sopranos until 1989. She also appeared at the Teatro alla Scala, and throughout Europe. She toured extensively with the Bolshoi, including to the Metropolitan Opera in 1975. In 1973, she received the title People's Artist of the USSR.[1]

At the Scala, the soprano appeared in La battaglia di Legnano (conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 1962), The Queen of Spades (1964), War and Peace (1964), Eugene Onegin (1973), and Prince Igor (1973).

Milashkina recorded extensively for Melodiya, including the 1974 recording of her most famous role, Lisa in Pique-dame, opposite her husband, tenor Vladimir Atlantov, with Bolshoi forces conducted by Mark Ermler.[2]

References
  1. "Article about Tamara Milashkina by The Free Dictionary". Encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com. 13 September 1934. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  2. "CLTCQUEE.HTM". www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk.

Further reading
  • Who's Who in Opera, edited by Maria F. Rich, Arno Press, 1976.
  • The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia, edited by David Hamilton, Simon & Schuster, 1987; ISBN 0-671-61732-X

Commercial videography
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (Arkhipova, Atlantov; Simonov, Pokrovsky, 1980) [live] VAI
  • Tchaikovsky: Pique-dame (Obraztsova, Atlantov, Mazurok; Simonov, Bartov, 1983) [live] Kultur


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