Lyudmila monastyrska biography
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Ukrainian dramatic soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska had early success as a principal soloist with the Ukraine National musikdrama, as well as, singing at St. Peterburg’s Mikhailovsky Theatre. Important debuts followed in Berlin as Tosca (2010), at Covent Garden she sang Aida (2011) and in this same role she first appeared at the Met in 2012. She sang Abigaille opposite Plácido Domingo in Nabucco at Covent Garden in 2013 (Jim Pritchard described her voice as having ‘a great range of dynamics and colour but also the capability to sing a line softly when required’) and 2016. Liudmyla Monastyrska returns to Covent Garden as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana in a production broadcast to cinemas on 21 April. Before that she makes an eagerly awaited return to La Scala in Milan as Leonora in Il trovatore in Alvis Hermanis’s production and conducted bygd Nicola Luisotti. In her answers to some questions from Seen and Heard International Liudmyla Monastyrska gives an insight into her background
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Monastyrska Liudmyla Viktorivna
Liudmyla Monastyrska (maiden name Povstenko, Latin: Liudmyla Monastyrska, * 1975, Irkliyiv, Cherkasy region, Ukraine) is a leading Ukrainian opera singer, soprano (spinto soprano), soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine, winner of the 2014 Shevchenko National Prize for vocal parts in opera performances. In 2015, she was awarded the Order of the Stars of Italy, a state award of the Italian Republic, for developing ties with Italy. She was named People's Artist of Ukraine in 2017. She sings on the most prestigious opera stages in the world: "La Scala in Milan, the Royal Covent Garden Theatre in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and others.
Biography.
Liudmyla Monastyrska was born into a family where her parents had no interest in theatre and music. As the singer herself said in an interview with the Day newspaper, her father was a businessman and her mother was a philology teacher, but there was always music in the house, in particular,
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Q & A: Maria Natale on Portraying Judith in ‘Bluebeard’s Castle’
Liudmyla Monastyrska is one of the most in-demand Verdi sopranos of her time.
Just look at her repertoire and engagements and you will see that the Ukrainian soprano has run the gamut of the great composer’s repertoire. From the earliest works to “Aida,” Verdi’s final dramatic soprano role, Monastyrska has deep knowledge of Verdi’s artistic development.
Among the roles that she has dominated over the last few years is Abigaille in “Nabucco,” which she first sang in 2013 at La Scala; since then she has been in demand to sing it all over the world. She is slated to reprise the opera in July in Munich before showcasing her interpretation in November in Los Angeles and throughout the 2017-18 season in Berlin.
Becoming Abigaille
The role is known for being so challenging that even great soprano Leonie Rysanek noted that it nearly derailed her career. But for the soprano who hails from Kiev, the