Radchenko-Lyalina, Tamara Ignatyevna

She was born on December 23, 1926 in the city of Konstantinovka, Donetsk region , in the family of artists of the Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater Alexandra and Ignat Radchenko. The godfather of Tamara was the opera singer Yury Kiporenko-Domansky.

During the war, young Tamara was a home front worker, worked at a factory and sang in military hospitals, gave over one hundred concerts for soldiers.

In 1946 she entered the Sverdlovsk State Conservatory , in the class to the teacher Tatarnikova, then moved to the class of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR Alexander Novikov. After graduating from the Conservatory in 1951, she debuted with great success on the stage of the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater in the Rosina party in Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville. Over the years she worked in the Sverdlovsk Opera Theater she sang five more parts in opera performances - Musetta in Puccini’s La Boheme, Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto opera, Norinu in Donizetti’s Don Don Pasquale opera, Peak Dama, Tsekovsky’s opera, Esmeralda in Smetana's opera The Sold Bride. The singer's partners were renowned singers of the Sverdlovsk Opera Theater, Jan Vutiras, Niyaz Dautov, her bass conservatory teacher Alexander Novikov and many others.

In 1956, Tamara Radchenko left Sverdlovsk and began concert activities. In 1961 she returned to Sverdlovsk and was accepted into the Sverdlovsk State Philharmonic Society .

In 1967–1970, she was a member of the “Art Train” popular in those years, in which famous artists Boris Andreev, Nikolai Rybnikov, Nonna Mordyukova, Zoya Fyodorova took part. The Arts Train toured throughout the country, and Tamara Radchenko successfully sang the classical and pop repertoire. The hosts of these concert programs were Alexander Milavsky and Tamara Radchenko’s husband, Anatoly Lyalin.

After leaving the philharmonic society in the early 1990s, Tamara Ignatyevna continued to sing at the concert venues in Yekaterinburg. She gave her last concert on her 90th birthday, December 23, 2016.

She died on April 10, 2017 in Yekaterinburg ^[1] . Buried at the District Cemetery.

• Merited Artist of the RSFSR ( 1973 , Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of November 15, 1973)
• Order "Badge of Honor" (October 8, 1986)
• The badge of honor “50 years in art” (December 9, 2002, the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation and the Transformation of the Urals Society).

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