Tahira Menaždina

The name of Professor Jelena Obrazcovova, with whom she studied voice at the Moscow Conservatory, and a three-year engagement at Moscow’s Great Theater are certainly a sufficient guarantee of the vocal qualities of this soprano, whose interpretation of Puccini’s Cio-Cio-San has been appreciated not only by audiences at Moscow’s Music Theater but also by visitors to the Slovak National Theater in Bratislava. Canadian audiences heard her Cio-Cio-San in the Italian original, which she performed for the first time for the Prague State Opera. Additional roles in this singer’s Italian repertoire are Puccini’s Floria Tosca, Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Amelia in Un ballo in maschera, Abigaille in Nabucco, and the title role in Aida. She sings also Tatjana in Tschaykowsky’s Eugen Onegin.