Tamara Milashkina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tamara Milashkina

Operatic soprano

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1934

Place of Birth: Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia

Profession: singer, opera singer

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Tamara Andreyevna Milashkina (born 13 September 1934) is a Russian lyric and dramatic soprano.Born in Astrakhan, she studied with Elena Katulskaya, and became a member of the Bolshoi Opera in 1958, where she remained one of the leading sopranos until 1989.
The soprano also appeared at the Teatro alla Scala, and throughout Europe.
She toured extensively with the Bolshoi, including to the Metropolitan Opera, in 1975.
In 1973, she received the title, People's Artist of the USSR.At the Scala, the soprano appeared in La battaglia di Legnano (conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 1962), Pique-dame (1964), War and Peace (1964), Eugene Onegin (1973), and Prince Igor (1973). Milashkina recorded extensively for Melodiya, including the 1974 recording of her most famous role, Lisa in Pique-dame, opposite her husband, tenor Vladimir Atlantov, with Bolshoi forces conducted by Mark Ermler.