Pouco conhecida fora da URSS, era uma grande mezzo. Suas gravações dos lieder de Tchaikovsky são memoráveis.
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ZARA DOLUKHANOVA Moscow, March 5, 1918 — December 5, 2007 One of Soviet-era Russia's most acclaimed opera singers, Dolukhanova spent little time in the opera house: for most of her career, she preferred to deploy her luxuriously colored, brilliantly agile mezzo in radio broadcasts of concerts and operas. Despite her lack of actual opera-house activity, Dolukhanova's broadcast recordings won her international fame as an interpreter of Rossini — her sparkling accounts of L'Italiana in Algeri and La Cenerentola are still much admired — and as an advocate of a concert repertoire that ranged from the Russian specialties then de rigueur for Soviet singers to arias by Handel, Haydn, Mozart and Meyerbeer. Born Zara Makarian, the daughter of Armenian musicians then resident in Moscow, she studied piano and violin before commencing vocal studies at the Gnessin Institute while still in her teens. In 1938, she made her opera debut in Yerevan, Armenia, where she remained a member of the local company for three years, singing minor roles. Following her return to Moscow in 1944, Dolukhanova — who performed under her married name after she wed composer Alexander Dolukhanian — essentially left the opera stage when she was appointed a soloist with All-Union Radio. In 1959, she became soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. In her prime, Dolukhanova maintained a schedule of concert and recital appearances outside Russia that was unusually active for a Soviet-era artist: she made her highly successful U.S. debut in New York City in 1959, and also toured to the U.K., Scandinavia, Japan, New Zealand and Latin America. After 1963, she began to take on soprano roles, including Norma, Aida, Tosca and Cio-Cio-San. Dolukhanova is credited with performing the Russian premieres of Suor Angelica and Strauss's Four Last Songs, as well as the 1955 world premiere of Shostakovich's song cycle From Jewish Folk Poetry. She was made People's Artist of the U.S.S.R. in 1956 and was awarded the Lenin Prize a decade later. In 1970, she began a long term of service on the faculty of the Gnessin Institute.
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