Galina Gorchakova, Constantine Orbelian - Italian Opera Arias (2001) [Hi-Res]

Galina Vladimirovna Gorchakova (b. March 1, 1962, Novokuznetsk) — Russian Opera singer, lyric soprano. Honored artist of the Russian Federation (1995).
Galina Gorchakova was born in Novokuznetsk in a family of musicians. Together with her parents, she moved to Novosibirsk, where her parents sang at the Opera house. In Novosibirsk, Galina attended a music school, a music school, and the Novosibirsk Conservatory, where she graduated in 1988 as a student of Nina Lubyanovskaya. During her studies at the Conservatory, she was invited to the Sverdlovsk Opera house as a leading soprano and won the all-Russian vocal competition in Perm (1987). Later, she auditioned at the Mariinsky theatre in Saint Petersburg and, at the invitation of Valery Gergiev, performed as a guest soprano in the operas Troubadour and Prince Igor.
A real success was her participation in a joint production of Prokofiev's Opera the Fiery angel by Covent garden and the Mariinsky theatre, where Gorchakova was offered the role of Renata. With this role in 1991, Gorchakova made her debut in the West, and triumphantly performed this role the entire next season at the Royal Opera house. With the same role, Gorchakova had success in Milan, new York, and San Francisco. The world press enthusiastically praised Gorchakova. It was only after the singer's recognition at world Opera venues that Galina Gorchakova received an offer to become a full-time actress at the Mariinsky theatre, from which, however, she later left, referring to Gergiev as a dictator.
Gorchakova sang in many key roles in the Russian Opera repertoire: Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, Lisa in the Queen of Spades, Iolanta, Lyudmila (Ruslan and Lyudmila), Olga (the Pskov woman), Maria in Mazepa, and Fevronia in the Tale of the invisible city of Kitezh. The singer successfully performs the roles of the classical Italian repertoire: CIO-CIO-San (in this role, Gorchakova made her debut in 1995 at the Metropolitan Opera), Aida, Elizabeth de Valois in Don Carlos, Leonora in Troubadour and the Power of fate, Tosca, Norma. At the same time, as early as 1997, critics noted "intonation errors, monotony of vocal techniques" and "vain acting reincarnations" in her manner.
Galina Gorchakova-winner of the title "Best singer of the year" (1994), awarded by the Royal Philharmonic society of London, winner of the "Baltika" prize in 1998 in the category "for outstanding achievements in the Opera art".