Krushelnitskaya, Salomea (Ambrosivna)

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Krushelnitskaya, Salomea (Ambrosivna)

Krushelnitskaya, Salomea (Ambrosivna), noted Russian soprano; b. Belavyntsy, near Tarnopol, Sept. 23, 1872; d. Lwów, Nov. 16, 1952. As a child she sang in a village choir. After studying voice with Wysocki in Lemberg, she made her debut there in La Favorite in 1892. She then went to Milan, where she took lessons with Crespi (1893-96. From 1898 to 1902 she was a member of the Warsaw Opera. She then scored a remarkable success as Cio- Cio-San in Brescia (1904). After singing at La Scala in Milan (from 1906) and in Buenos Aires (1906–13), she made her operatic farewell in Naples in 1920; subsequently devoted herself to concert appearances. She taught at the Lwów Cons, (from 1939). Her voice was of particular beauty, spanning fully 3 octaves. Among her most notable roles were Brünnhilde, Isolde, Elisabeth in Tannhäuser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Aida, Desdemona, and Elektra. In her concert programs she promoted songs by Ukrainian composers. A collection of articles about her career was publ. in Ukrainian (Lwów, 1956).

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

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