Today we will tell you who Svetlana Kasyan is. The soprano of this Kazakh-Russian singer pleases the opera fans. Our heroine was born in Batumi in 1984, on July 24, and has an Armenian-Yezidi origin.
Biography
Svetlana Kasyan moved in 1993 in Aktobe. There she studied at the 26th school. The singer noted that she comes from a poor family and she knows well what it means to wear old clothes. She began working at 11 years old. She traded on the market with carrots and sandals. Mother divided the bread into quarters, giving them to our heroine, her brother and grandmother. Strangers helped the family with food, clothing and other things. The singer remembers about this until now. After finishing nine school classes, the girl began to study at the music college in Aktobe. She graduated in 2006. Then she studied at the Moscow State Conservatory Tchaikovsky. I went to the class of Galina Pisarenko. She trained with Dmitry Vdovin, as well as Placido Domingo in Washington.
Activities
Svetlana Kasyan in 2009-2011 was a member of the youth program at the Bolshoi Theater. Her debut took place in 2010. Then the Russian singer appeared on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, performing the Kupava party from the opera The Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov. Later, in these same walls, the image of Fata Morgana from the work of S. Prokofiev "Love for Three Oranges" and Nastasya from "The Enchantress" by P. Tchaikovsky was embodied in these walls. In 2011 she graduated from the conservatory, choosing the specialty "solo singing". Soon became the owner of the first prize at the international competition of vocalists of the city of Ningbo. In 2011 she performed the title role in the Yekaterinburg Theater from the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. Then she realized a similar image on the Bolshoi stage. Journalists named our heroine the most promising voice in the world.
Peace
Svetlana Kasyan made her debut in Italy in 2011. It happened in Bari on the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven. In 2013 she performed in the Turin Teatro Regio with Queen Elizabeth's party from the opera Don Carlos. I became one with Ildar Abdrazakov and Ramon Vargas. This performance was broadcast by the Italian TV channel RAI. Soon in Venice she made her debut with the title role in "Madame Butterfly" on the stage of the theater "La Fenice". The Italian public was represented as part of the Biennale.
Help
Svetlana Kasyan took part in a special charity solo concert. It was held in 2013 in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. This event was dedicated to the restoration of architectural monuments in the city of Moscow. The concert was broadcast by the Russian radio "Orpheus". The event helped raise $ 3,000,000 for the implementation of this program. Michael McFaul is an American ambassador to the Russian Federation attending the concert. After the event, he made a statement in which he noted that the singer is a world-class star, and he never heard anything like it in his life.
In 2012, at a concert that took place within the framework of the Athens Festival at the Odeon Theater, there was a sold-out (over 5,500 people). Mikis Theodorakis after this event compared Svetlana with Maria Callas. In 2013, our heroine performed in Rome with a solo concert. The event was held in the auditorium Conciliazione and was organized under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the President of Italy. On the day of the concert, the singer received an audience with Pope Francis. He dedicated the voice of our heroine to God and took the girl's promise to sing for the sake of promoting good.
Svetlana Kasyan collaborated with various conductors, including Dmitry Yurovsky, Vladimir Fedoseev, Pavel Kogan, Christopher Mulds, Stefan Anton Rek, Gianandrea Noseda, Kent Nagano. The agent of our heroine is one of the most famous people in the opera business. It's about an Englishman named Mark Hildrow. He represented Dmitry Hvorostovsky.