Nadezhda Repina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nadezhda Repina

Russian actress and singer

Date of Birth: 07-Oct-1809

Place of Birth: Russian Empire

Date of Death: 02-Dec-1867

Profession: actor, singer, opera singer

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Nadezhda Repina

  • Nadezhda Vasilyevna Repina (Russian: ????´??? ????´?????? ??´????) (October 7 [O.S.
  • September 25] 1809 – December 2 [O.S.
  • November 20] 1867) was a Russian actress and singer (soprano). She was the daughter of a serf actor and musician in the troupe of a landlord called Stolypin, who in 1798 sold him to the Imperial troupe.
  • Serf actors, once in the Imperial troupe, immediately were free people.
  • So Nadezhda was born free. Vasily Repin became a musician in the orchestra of the Moscow Imperial troupe, and gave his daughter in 1816 at the Moscow Imperial theater college.
  • Her musical and acting talent were noticed right away. She made her debut in several operas and vaudevilles in 1823.At this time the Moscow Imperial troupe not had its theaters – they all were burned.
  • Performances were held in the homes of wealthy Muscovites.
  • At the end of 1824, a rich merchant Vasily Vargin gave his house to the Moscow Imperial troupe – now this is Maly Theatre (Moscow), it was opened on 14 October 1824. At the same time, architects Andrei Mikhailov and Joseph BovĂ© had built a new theatre on the place of the burnt theatre of Michael Maddox – now this is Bolshoi Theatre; it opened on 18 January 1825. Nadezhda Repina became the first prima donna these theaters.
  • Her talent took all genres: opera, operetta, comedy, vaudeville, drama, tragedy. Many playwrights wrote leading roles for her in their plays (Dmitry Lensky, Alexandr Pisarev).
  • Sergei Aksakov called her the “adornment of the Moscow stage”. She was especially successful in comedies and vaudevilles where her partner was the famous Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin. She was a pupil and then wife of the composer Alexey Verstovsky.
  • He wrote his operas and musical vaudevilles for her. Among Nadezhda Repina's roles: Masha – Ivan Susanin, opera of Catterino Cavos Zerlina – Don Giovanni, opera of Mozart Angèle – Le domino noir, opĂ©ra comique of Daniel Auber Yulia – Pan Tvardovsky, opera of Alexey Verstovsky Suzanne – The Marriage of Figaro, play of Pierre Beaumarchais Ophelia – Hamlet, play of William Shakespeare (1837; music author is a composer Alexander Egorovich Varlamov; Pavel Mochalov as Hamlet) Luise – Intrigue and Love, play of Friedrich Schiller Nadezhda – Askold's Grave, opera of Alexey Verstovsky Sofia – Woe from Wit, play of Alexander Griboyedov Liza – Lev Gurych Sinichkin (??? ????? ????????), play of Dmitry Lensky (author's version of the plot of French play Le Père de la dĂ©butante of Jean-François Bayard and Emmanuel ThĂ©aulon), with music of Alexey Verstovskyetc. The repertoire of Nadezhda Repina was huge; she sang some 100 operatic roles, not counting roles in drama performances. Alexey Verstovsky was not only a composer, he became the head of Music department at the Moscow Imperial troupe.
  • He knew that would be expected large changes and, fearing that they would affect to his wife, asked without her knowledge to the Directorate for her dismissal. She knew nothing about this.
  • Her dismissal was held in 1841.
  • When she got it, she fainted. Nadezhda Repina and Alexey Verstovsky made the official church marriage.
  • Her acting was over.
  • She was 32 years old, still had many years of empty and useless life.
  • From time to time, she continued to come backstage and helped councils of young actresses.
  • But it was quite a different life.
  • Her partner, actor S.
  • Solovyov wrote that she was interested of only one thing: her acting, without it she could not live, and she was very grieved at her inaction.Alexey Verstovsky died in their house in Khlebny lane November 17 [O.S.
  • November 5] 1862.
  • She survived her husband for five years.
  • She died in the same house November 1 [O.S.
  • October 20] 1867.One newspaper wrote the obituary: "With its leaving the Moscow scene suffered a great loss, and God knows when and by whom it will be recharged.
  • At least, still a place of unforgettable actress remains vacant.
  • True talents are not born, as mushrooms".

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