Lina Mkrtchyan. A singer who mourns the sins of the world

Lina Mkrtchyan. If you translate from her Armenian name Mkrtchyan, you get the word "Baptist", and the name of Lina, shortened from Elena, the singer chose consciously. There was once the singer Lin, mourning the sins of the world.

Film director Alexander Sokurov enthusiastically spoke about this singer with an unusual voice, saying that such talents are given by God as a mission, like a cross. They are the vehicles between Creator and creation, connect people with the Divine principle.

Biography of the singer

Lina Mkrtchyan, whose biography is worthy of writing several books, was born in Ukraine, in the city of Odessa on the eve of Christmas. Since the birth of the Lord, Yelena Mkrtchyan led her way. Roddom was directly opposite the Orthodox church. From the very childhood the girl sang in the church, she was always a singer, and she liked it, despite the Soviet times.

Lina Mkrtchyan's talent allowed her to enter the Gnessin Academy of Music Arts at the age of seventeen, then to the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, and later she graduated from the Lunacharsky Theater Academy.

The singer's voice is extraordinary, considered one of the best contralto and allows her to sing the soprano arias in different bands. As a student, Lina already performed the most complicated works. Now in her repertoire there are more than eight hundred musical creations, from Italian spiritual works to modern ones.

Many composers wrote and dedicated their compositions to her even when she studied at the Academy and the Conservatory.

Lina Mkrtchyan. "Homecoming"

The pope invited her once to perform Russian spiritual music in the Vatican. And in 1996, the singer performed at the Carnegie Hall, accompanied by the orchestra Evgeny Kolobov. For several years, Lina has been the author and presenter of the Moscow Spiritual Enlightenment Cycle "Return to Homeland", which she created in 1999.

At parties dedicated to a certain cycle, Lina Mkrtchyan does not sing, but unites invited guests, cycle heroes and the public. I must say that Patriarch Alexy II himself gave a blessing to the cycle.

What is described in the cycle?

Each program is dedicated to a specific topic. For example, Russian saints, such as Seraphim of Sarov, royal martyrs, martyrs, Reverend Anthony of Siya, St. Nicholas Velikoretsky and many others who lived in distant times. Of modern people, Lina Mkrtchyan chooses and talks about those who did not spare their souls, worked for the good of man and the Lord God. This is the newly deceased Patriarch Alexy II, and Metropolitan John (Snychev), and many others.

The very name "Return to Motherland" says that the homeland should be all one - it is the Kingdom of Heaven and our Fatherland.

This amazing woman has seen a lot in life, but the main thing was laid in her as a child. In the temple, Lina was, and then she sang, beginning at the age of four, and around her were, according to her, holy people. Ordinary grandmothers in white kerchiefs who cried with happiness, if they were allowed to wipe the icons, wash the floor, clean the candlesticks. And then, at an ungodly time, faith was alive thanks to such people who did not know greed, anger, quarrels and unforgiveness in the church, which, unfortunately, often occurs today.

The first teacher of God

The singer is also grateful to the Lord for bringing her with Polina Lvivna Tronina, the vocal teacher who was the bearer of the Russian, and not of the Italian vocal school, which is now everywhere planted as an ideal.

The Russian vocal school teaches first of all the prayerful attitude to the word, while Polina Lvovna herself studied with the famous singer Preobrazhenskaya, who was the honorary title of "Soloist of His Majesty". Fedor Shalyapin was the first to receive the same title.

When Lina Mkrtchyan appeared before the teacher, she was only sixteen years old and she knew by heart all the church chants that she performed with all the voices: soprano, viola, tenor and even bass. Polina Lvovna was so delighted with the girl that she simply did not let her go and not only did not break her talent, but also multiplied, and most importantly, she gave Lina a culture.

Chest Esenina

Three years the girl slept on the chest, on which Sergey Yesenin was sleeping - a friend of Polina Lvovna. They were friends and sometimes, when he came home to Pauline, they were so carried away by talk that they forgot about time, and the poet went to sleep on the huge trunk that Lina at first took for the bed. It is interesting that Polina Lvovna, talking about Yesenin, said that she had never seen him drunk.

Lina Mkrtchyan is a creative singer and she loves to study. The sun of Russian poetry Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, Sergey Esenin, Mikhail Lermontov, Tyutchev, Tchaikovsky, Grechaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Fedor Shalyapin, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, who prayed for a long time , Before letting go of Lina anywhere, it seemed to her that everyone was insulting her, and she was right. Lina is still not allowed to sing, she does not have a salary, she does not have a work book, she will not receive a pension and is doomed to a distressed situation. All the money she earns at the concerts she gives to charity, and one Bulgarian singer after her concert was so stunned that he constantly repeated that the singer has three throats, she is all gold from head to foot, and nobody knows her.

Lina Mkrtchyan. Films

Working with director Alexander Sokurov, Lina Mkrtchyan considers interesting and difficult physically. The director rented the whole night a hall of the Song Choir, which was in St. Petersburg, and she sang all night, and he wrote.

Elena Vladimirovna is glad that in the best film of the director "Silent Pages" her performance by Mahler accompanied by the Mariinsky Orchestra sounds.

This singer gives all herself, her blood, when she sings. Once the Russian composer Gavrilin came to hear how she sings to Glinka. In the intermission, sitting down on a chair, he told a friend that if Lina would sing like that, she would not live more than a year.

Fortunately, the singer is still alive, but compares herself with a rooster with a severed head, which still runs for some time.