Today we will tell who is Svetlana Kasyan.The soprano of this Kazakh-Russian singer pleases opera lovers. Our heroine was born in Batumi in 1984, July 24, and is of Armenian-Yezidi origin.
Biography
Svetlana Kasyan moved to Aktobe in 1993.She studied at 26 school. The singer noted that she comes from a poor family and she is well aware of what it means to wear old clothes. She began working at age 11. Traded on the market with carrots and sandals. Mom divided the bread into quarters, giving them to our heroine, her brother and grandmother. Other people helped the family with food, clothes and other things. The singer remembers it still. After completing nine classes of school, she began to study at the music college in Aktobe. She graduated in 2006. Then she studied at the Moscow State Conservatory of Tchaikovsky. Got to the class of Galina Pisarenko. Trained at Dmitry Vdovin, as well as Placido Domingo in Washington.
Activities
Svetlana Kasyan was a member in 2009-2011youth program at the Bolshoi Theater. Her debut was in 2010. Then the Russian singer appeared on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, performing the part of Kupava from the opera The Snow Maiden by Rimsky-Korsakov. Later, in the same walls, she embodied the image of Fata Morgana from S. Prokofiev’s work “Love for Three Oranges” and Nastasia from “The Sorceress” by P. Tchaikovsky. In 2011 she graduated from the conservatory, choosing the specialty "solo singing". Soon, she won the first prize at the Ningbo City International Vocal Competition. In 2011 she performed in the Yekaterinburg Theater the title role from the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini. Then she embodied a similar image on the Bolshoi stage. Journalists called our heroine the most promising voice in the world.
Peace
Svetlana Kasyan made her debut in Italy in 2011It happened in Bari on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. In 2013 she performed in Teatro Regio in Turin with the part of Queen Elizabeth from the opera “Don Carlos”. I ended up with Ildar Abdrazakov and Ramon Vargas. This performance was broadcast by the Italian TV channel RAI. Soon in Venice she made her debut with the title role in “Madame Butterfly” on the stage of the theater “La Fenice”. Italian opera was presented as part of the Biennale.
Help
Svetlana Kasyan took part in a specialcharity solo concert. It was held in 2013 in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. This event was dedicated to the restoration of architectural monuments in the city of Moscow. The concert was broadcast by the Russian radio Orpheus. The event helped raise $ 3,000,000 for the implementation of this program. Michael McFaul - US Ambassador to the Russian Federation, present at the concert. After the event, he made a statement in which he noted that the singer is a world-class star, and he had never heard anything like it in his life.
In 2012The concert, which took place as part of the Athens Festival at the Odeon Theater, was a sell-out (over 5,500 people). Mikis Theodorakis after this event compared Svetlana with Maria Callas. In 2013, our heroine gave a solo concert in Rome. The event took place in the Auditorium Conciliazione hall and was organized under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture and the President of Italy. On the day of the concert, the singer received an audience with Pope Francis. He dedicated the voice of our heroine to God and took from the girl a promise to sing for the sake of promoting good.
Svetlana Kasyan collaborated with variousconductors, including Dmitry Yurovsky, Vladimir Fedoseev, Pavel Kogan, Christopher Mulds, Stefan Anton Rek, Janandrea Nozed, Kent Nagano. The agent of our heroine is one of the most famous people in the opera business. This is about an Englishman named Mark Hildrow. He represented Dmitry Khvorostovsky.
