Oda Slobodskaya "I would have kissed you"

Oda Slobodskaya sings "I would have kissed you" by Alexander Tcherepkyn.

Slobodskaya was born in Vilnius, then part of Russia, and studied with the formidable Natalia Iretskaya, herself a pupil of Pauline Viardot Garcia. She sang major roles in the Mariinsky theatre St Petersburg but after the Revolution and subsequent famine, she left Russia with Fyodor Chaliapin when he brought his own opera company to the west. She went on to sing major roles at Covent Garden, La Scala Milan and other major houses.

She eventually married and settled in London where she enjoyed great success as both a concert and opera singer. She continued to give entertaining recitals of Russian songs well into her seventies and was a witty and characterful narrator of Peter and the Wolf.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 - 1977) a composer noted for the "experimental" nature of his work, moved to Paris from his native Russia about the time Rohmer's story, "Tchriapin," was published.  In the novel he is described thus:

"He had something of the personality of Paganini, as you remember, except that he was a smaller man; long, gaunt, yellowish hands and the face of a haggard Mephistopheles. The critics quarrelled about him, as critics only quarrel about real genious, and while one school proclaimed that Tchriapin had discovered an entirely new technique, a revolutionary system of violin playing, another school was equally positive in declaring that he could not play at all, that he was a mountebank, a triackster, whose proper place was in a variety theatre."

If you can post a synopsis or translation it would be most welcome.

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[paulostroff99]

Oda was always great. T Y CW for sharing.

[mayatatyana1]

Exquisite! Thank you for posting and thank you Doug@CurzonRoad for sharing.

[CurzonRoad]

Lovely, lovely.... brava!

Thank you!