Oda Slobodskaya [SEP] voice type
Oda Slobodskaya
Oda Slobodskaya (28 November 1888 - 30 July 1970) was a Russian born soprano who became a British citizen.
Her biographer Maurice Leonard quotes Slobodskaya as having been born on 28 November 1888 in Vilno (now Vilnius) near the Polish border. She won a scholarship for secondary education but, having completed her schooling, to her displeasure, found herself working with her parents in a secondhand clothes shop. Knowing she had a good voice, in 1907 she applied for an audition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory
professor in 1881.
Pupils.
Among her pupils were:
- Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel,
- Lydia Lipkowska,
- Oda Slobodskaya,
- Elena Katulskaya,
- Lubov Andreyeva-Delmas,
- Ksenia Dorliak (mother of Nina Dorliak),
- Aikanush Danielyan,
- Elizaveta Petrenko, and others.
External links.
- Teatralnaya Entsiklopedia: Natalia Alexandrovna Iretskaya