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A series of great  Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech and Yugo-Slav  Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records

                                                       Claudia Tugarinova in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (photo by  )

Meet the first international recording star, leading coloratura soprano of the Imperial Mariinsky Theater of Opera and Ballet, who apparently never sang outside of the greater and lesser Russia:

Maria Michailowa in Russian Folk Song  with contralto Kalvdija Alekseevna Turgarinova

Rose, little rose Russian folk song
Roza-l ty rozochka
Aleksandr Sergeevich Dargomyzhski (composer) 
Anton Antonovich Delvig (1798 - 1831)

M. A. Michailova (vocalist : soprano vocal) 
Kalvdija Alekseevna Turgarinova (vocalist : contralto) 
Franz Hampe (recordist) 
Description: Vocal duet (soprano and contralto), with piano

1905 St. Petersburg, Russia [1] Master Victor 61142

Superb Victor 5 line Patent 10" 78 rpm record

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EXCELLENT close to PRISTINE faint scuffsscuffs, plays E+ EXCEPTIONALLY quiet rare ticks

A SUPERB COPY

Claudia Alekseevna Tugarinova (1876 or 1877, Perm  - 1942) - opera singer ( contralto ). After marriage, she bore the surname Valtman [1] .

Biography 
She studied at the Moscow Conservatory , teacher - E. Lavrovskaya . Immediately after this, from 1897 to 1909, she studied at the Moscow Music and Drama School, teacher - A. Polyakova-Khvostova . Later she studied with U. Mazetti and I. Pryanishnikov , and in 1907 and 1908 she trained abroad. In 1900 she entered the enterprise of A. A. Tsereteli , in which she performed in Moscow and provincial cities. In 1900-1902 she was accepted as a soloist at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater (she made her debut as Siebel - “ Faust ”), in 1902-1905 she sang on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater (she made her debut as Vanya - “A Life for the Tsar” ). In 1905-1908 she returned to the Bolshoi Theater, and in 1908-1917 she returned to the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater. She performed on the same stage more than once with F. Chaliapin . Other partners also include famous singers: I. Gryzunov , I. Ershov , O. Kamionsky , A. Nezhdanova , D. Smirnov , L. Sobinov , I. Tartakov , etc.

The first performer of the role of the Polenta Seller in N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Servilia” (1902). Other notable roles: Mrs. Bentson ( Lakmé ); Floschilda ( The Death of the Gods ); Ratmir ( "Ruslan and Lyudmila" ), Princess ( "Rusalka" ), Fyodor ( "Boris Godunov" ), Olga ( "Eugene Onegin" ), Countess and Polina (" Queen of Spades "), Basmanov ( "Oprichnik" ), Erda ( "Siegfried" ), Lel ( "Snow Maiden" ), Maddalena ( "Rigoletto" ), Nezhata ( "Sadko" , Olesnitsky (" Pan Voevoda "), etc.

The singer’s vocal archive consists of 52 works recorded in Moscow (“Gramophone”, 1902; “E. Berliners Gramophone”, 1902; “Lyrophone”, 1910), St. Petersburg (“Gramophone”, 1905; “Pathe”, 1905, 1912), Paris (His master's voice, 1905). Opera recordings are stored in the Russian State Archive of Phono Documents (see Russian State Archive of Phono Documents ).

At the end of her life she switched to teaching, teaching vocals in Moscow, St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and Stalingrad .

Maria Michailova (Mikhailova) (Soprano) (Kharkov 1864 – Perm 1943)

Her mother's surname was van Puteren and her mother was of Dutch ancestry. Three years she studied in St. Petersburg with Z. P. Grenning-Vilde, then approximately four years she studied in Milan with S. Ronconi and in Paris with Saint-Yves-Bax and De-Laborde. From 1892 to 1912 she was a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg where she made her debut as Margherita in ‘’Gli Ugonotti’’ of Meyerbeer. During of her career she also performed in Orel, Tambov, Odessa, at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre (1902), Vladivostok (1903), Kharkov, in the cities of Sibir (1909). She made guest appearances in Prague (1903), Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Austria and Japan. She possessed flexible, easy, well processed voice of a ''silvery'' timbre and a wide range, she also owned a coloratura and had attractive stage appearance.

Chronology of appearance

1892-1912 St. Petersburg Mariinksy Theatre 
1902 Moscow Bolshoi Theatre
1903 Vladivostok Opera House

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