Natalia Iretskaya

Natalia Alexandrovna Iretskaya (, 1843 – 15 November 1922) was a Russian singer and teacher of singing. Vocally, she is best known as a soprano.

Biography

She was born in 1843 and graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where she studied with Henriette Nissen-Saloman (a pupil of Manuel Patricio Rodríguez García).

She also studied in Paris with Pauline Viardot (a daughter and pupil of Manuel García). In 1874, she taught singing in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and became a professor in 1881.

Pupils

Among her pupils were: Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel, Lydia Lipkowska, Oda Slobodskaya, Elena Katulskaya, Lubov Andreyeva-Delmas, Ksenia Dorliak (mother of Nina Dorliak), Aikanush Danielyan, Elizaveta Petrenko, and others.

References

External links

Teatralnaya Entsiklopedia: Natalia Alexandrovna Iretskaya

1845 births

1922 deaths

Russian sopranos

Voice teachers

19th-century women opera singers from the Russian Empire

19th-century educators from the Russian Empire

20th-century Russian educators

20th-century Russian women opera singers

Russian music educators

Russian women music educators

Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery

19th-century women educators

20th-century women educators