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

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Biography

She was born in 1843 and graduated from the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

, 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

, 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 Women music educators Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery 19th-century women educators 20th-century women educators {{russia-opera-singer-stub