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Anzhelina Shvachka

Anzhelina Shvachka

Ukrainian operatic mezzo-soprano singer

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Alekseevna and the family name is Shvachka.

Anzhelina[n 1] Alekseevna Shvachka (Ukrainian: Анжелина Алексеевна Швачка; born 1971) is a Ukrainian operatic mezzo-soprano singer. She is a leading soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv,[1] where she started in 1997.

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Career

Shvachka was born in Dnipro, Ukraine. She is the prizewinner of Klaudia Taev Competition in 2005.[2] After that, she was invited to perform numerous times at the Pärnu International Opera Music Festival PromFest in Estonia and abroad. Some notable roles were the title role in Carmen (2007), Lyubasha in The Tsar's Bride (2013), and Amneris in Aida (2015).[3]

She recorded Prince Igor with the NRCU Symphony Orchestra under Theodore Kuchar in 2005,[4] and Robert Ian Winstin's Oedipus Requiem with the Kyiv Philharmonic in 2007.[5]

Awards

Notes and references

Notes

  1. [n 1]
    Also transcribed as "Angelina"

References

  1. [1]
    Profile Archived 2017-12-12 at the Wayback Machine, National Opera of Ukraine (in Ukrainian)
  2. [2]
    "Klaudia Taev 2005 Prizewinners".
  3. [3]
    Schedule at Operabase
  4. [4]
    Borodin: Prince Igor (highlights), Naxos Records
  5. [5]
    Winstin: Oedipus Requiem (2007), Presto Classical
  6. [6]
    "УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №77/2016" [Decree of the President of Ukraine No.77/2016], 2 March 2016 (in Ukrainian)
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