Larisa Avdeyeva [SEP] voice type
Larisa Avdeyeva
Larisa Avdeyeva ( or Larisa Ivanovna Avdeeva) (21 June 192510 March 2013) was a mezzo-soprano, who starred with the Bolshoi Opera for thirty years. In 1964 she was honored as a People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
Biography.
Larisa Ivanovna Avdeyeva was born on 21 June 1925 in Moscow to a family of opera singers. Though surrounded by music and performing in a children's glee club from age eleven, Avdeyeva initially wanted to study architecture. After World War II, she entered
Alexeev, Mikhail Pletnev, Grigory Sokolov, and Dmitri Bashkirov. 
Among numerous productions in Leningrad, he conducted in 1966 "Katerina Izmailova" at the Leningrad State Academic Maly Opera Theatre with Larisa Avdeyeva as Katerina Lvovna Ismailova and the composer Dmitri Shostakovich involved in the rehearsals. 
In 1978 Alexeev was awarded with the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Since 1992 he joins the faculty of symphonic conducting at the Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, and served between 2000 and 2008 as head of the conducting department.