Leonida Balanovskaya |

Leonida Balanovskaya

Yayin da take karatu a St. Petersburg Conservatory, ta yi wasan farko a Op. mataki a cikin kasuwancin Tsereteli (1905, wani ɓangare na Gioconda a cikin op. Ponchielli mai suna iri ɗaya, tare da Ruffo a ɓangaren Barnabas). Daga baya ta yi tare da nasara a Mariinsky gidan wasan kwaikwayo (na farko 1906, wani ɓangare na Valentina a cikin Huguenots), a Kyiv, a Bolshoi Theater (1908-18, 1925-26). Ofaya daga cikin mafi kyawun wasan Wagnerian na Spain. (sassan Ortrud a Lohengrin, Brunnhilde a Valkyrie, Kundry a Parsifal, Isolde). Sauran ayyukan sun haɗa da Maria a cikin Mazeppa, Liza, Margarita a cikin oratorio Mutuwar Faust ta Berlioz. A cikin 1911-14. kasashen waje (Faransa, Ingila, Austria). Nikish ne ya rera Ortrud. Ta yi wasa a biranen kasar Rasha. Daga 1924 ya yi aiki a matsayin malami (1935-55 a Moscow Conservatory).

E. Tsodokov