Irina Bogacheva (mezzo-soprano)

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovna and the family name is Bogacheva.

Irina Bogacheva
Ирина Богачёва
Background information
Born
Irina Petrovna Komyakova

(1939-03-02)2 March 1939
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Died19 September 2019(2019-09-19) (aged 80)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
OccupationsOpera singer, voice teacher

Irina Petrovna Bogacheva (née Komyakova, 2 March 1939 – 19 September 2019) was a Russian mezzo-soprano at the Mariinsky Theatre and a professor of voice at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Trained in Leningrad and at La Scala in Milan, she performed leading roles of the Russian and Italian repertoire at major international opera houses. Dmitri Shostakovich composed his Six Poems by Marina Tsvetayeva for her.


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