Nina Koshetz

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Nina Koshetz
Los Angeles, California)
OccupationOpera singer
Years active1910–1956
SpouseAlexander de Shubert
ChildrenMarina Koshetz

Nina Koshetz (

recital singer, and the niece of Alexander Koshetz
.

Early life and career

Nina Koshetz accompanied by Maurice Ravel in January 1928, during the composer's American tour.
Nina Koshetz with (left) her husband Alexander de Shubert and (right) Japanese artist Toyohari Yamanouchi in December 1922

Nina Koshetz was born in

Kyiv, then moved to Moscow and became an opera singer. Her father, opera singer Pavel Koshetz (Ukrainian: Павло Олексійович Кошиць; 1863 - 2 March 1904), committed suicide in 1904, when Nina was 12 years old. From 1908–13 she studied in Moscow State Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnov and Sergei Taneyev, among others.[1]

Having received voice lessons in France from the retired dramatic soprano

Petrograd Conservatory and was accompanied by then-unknown Vladimir Horowitz
. She had initially resisted being accompanied by the unknown student, but afterward insisted only he could accompany her there; she subsequently programmed some of Horowitz's songs.

In 1920 Koshetz joined

Chicago Opera Association where she sang in the premiere of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (1921). [citation needed
]

Nina Koshetz later performed for the Russian Opera Company in

Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.[2]

Nina's daughter Marina Koshetz (also known as Marina Schubert; 1912–2001) was an operatic soprano.

Relationship with Rachmaninoff

She had a working relationship with composer Sergei Rachmaninoff during the 1910s, and he composed a cycle of six romantic songs dedicated to her (opus 38).[3]

Recordings

  • The Nina Koshetz Edition - 1916-1941

Songs by

Chopin etc.; arias from Sadko, The Demon, Dobrynia Nikititch, The Fair at Sorochyntsi, Pique Dame and Prince Igor
. CD released 1993 (Opal/Pavilion Records, 9855)

  • Nina Koshetz – Complete Victor and Schirmer recordings 1928/29 and 1940 (and Odarka Trifonieva Sprishevskaya – Victor recordings)

Songs and arias by Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ravel, Ponce, Martini, Chopin, Gretchaninov, Rachmaninoff, Arensky, Tchaikovsky. (Nimbus Prima Voce CD NI 7935-36)

Film roles

She appeared as "Countess Vorontsov" opposite

Hot Blood
(1956).

Further reading

  • Scott, M (1979), The Record of Singing II, pp 23–25
  • Scott, M (2008), "Rachmaninoff" (The History Press. Gloucester, 2008.) pp 109–110;
    ISBN 978-0-75094-376-5
  • Steane, J B (1992), 'Koshetz, Nina' in The
    ISBN 0-333-73432-7

References

  1. ^ (in Russian)Aron Proujanski. Moscow. Native singer. 1750—1917: Dictionary—Pub. 2nd —М., 2008
  2. ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
  3. ^ Scott. "Rachmaninoff" (see further reading)

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