Nikolai Vladimirovich Lavrov (real name - Chirkin , 1802 or 1805 [1] , Vetluga - 1840 [2] , Moscow ) - Russian opera singer - baritone .
| Nikolai Vladimirovich Lavrov | |
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| Full name | Nikolay Vladimirovich Chirkin |
| Date of Birth | 1802 or 1805 |
| Place of Birth | Vetluga , Kostroma Province |
| Date of death | May 25 ( June 6 ) 1840 |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| A country | |
| Professions | opera singer, actor |
| Singing voice | baritone |
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Biography
In his youth he lived in Nizhny Novgorod. He graduated from the Moscow Commercial School . In 1822-1824, he sang in the choir of the Moscow Novospassky monastery , where he was once heard by the director of the Moscow Imperial Theaters Fedor Fedorovich Kokoshkin and in 1824 he was enlisted in the Moscow Opera Company of the Imperial Theater. Already on January 6, 1825, Nikolai Vladimirovich Lavrov made his debut at the opening of the Bolshoi Theater , in the prologue in verses “The Triumph of the Muses” (verses by M. A. Dmitriev , music by F. E. Scholz , A. N. Verstovsky and A. A. Alyabyev ) in the role of Apollo.
In the early years, he participated in operas, vaudeville, divertissements and drama performances (mainly in tragedies). S. T. Aksakov on June 10, 1828, wrote about the performance of Verstovsky’s “Pan Tverdovsky” opera:
Mr. Lavrov played the role of Tverdovsky without art, but in some places not bad. He sang very well, especially the first aria. <...> Mr. Lavrov should make a general remark that he keeps himself in the theater: all his gestures are awkward, unpleasant, ignoble. <...> for a report, we believe to say that it is a sin to remain ungrateful for the generous gifts that have been poured out by nature. An excellent organ, a strong chest, a beautiful appearance, feeling and fire (although he has not yet gained the latter to use art) call him to the degree of an excellent artist, even regardless of singing.
In divertisments he performed Russian folk songs and romances by A. Alyabyev, A. Verstovsky, I. Genishty; On March 16, 1828, in a duet with A. Bantyshev, he performed “A Farewell to the Nightingale” by Alexander Alyabyev , accompanied by a choir and a symphony orchestra.
The repertoire of speeches was huge. Nikolai Vladimirovich Lavrov performed performances, also created the stage image of Susanin in the opera “ Ivan Susanin ” by Katerino Kavos at the Bolshoi Theater , the second singer (“Singers in the camp of Russian soldiers”), Tverdovsky (“Pan Tverdovsky”), the Alchemist (“Magic lamp, or Cashmere pastries "), Lord of Kokburg (" Fra-Devil, or Hotel in Terracina "), Fernando (" Forty-thief, or Danger judged by appearance ") and many others.
Lavrov had a vast and beautifully sonorous voice of an unusually soft velvet timbre and a wide range (two and a half octaves - from lower salt to upper tenor to). This quality helped well in the operas “Robert” by the composer Meyerbeer , “Zampa, the sea robber, or the Marble Bride” by the composer Herold , “Askold's Grave” by A. N. Verstovsky (after the novel of M. N. Zagoskin ).
Alexander Bantyshev , Pyotr Bulakhov , Nadezhda Repina , Vasily Ryazantsev , Agrafena Saburova , Mikhail Shchepkin and wife Daria Lavrova were his stage partners.
On April 20, 1838, Nikolai Vladimirovich Lavrov became the first performer of the role of Melnik in A. Pushkin 's The Mermaid.
" Northern Bee " in 1839 wrote about him:
Lavrov has a vast, thick voice, a baritone, which he manages with art and soul. His singing is especially pleasant when he turns into tenor parts: it is sweetness, bliss, a silvery stream of sounds that pours straight into the soul. Where you need to deploy all the power of voice, Lavrov is majestic and fascinatingly good. With these tools Lavrov combines the talent of an experienced and skilled actor. With a very pleasant appearance, majestic growth, his game is always noble, deliberate and animated.
- Singer of the Moscow stage in St. Petersburg // Northern Bee. - 1839. - May 23. - № 112
In 1840, in the biography of “Lavrov, the singer of the Moscow theater <...> abducted by premature death” [3] F. A. Koni wrote:
One of the wonderful voices in Russia, maybe in the whole of Europe, one of those rare voices that Italian artists who were in Moscow could not admire, remained almost like a semi-precious stone in its ore, without a border and without polish
- Nikolai Vladimirovich Lavrov, Russian singer and actor // Pantheon of Russian and all European theaters. 1840. № 6.
N. V. Lavrov "died of nervous fever" on May 25 ( June 6 ), 1840 . In connection with the death of the singer Alexander Alyabyev wrote “A Song to the Death of Lavrov”.
Family
He was married to a singer and actress Daria Matveyevna Saburova. Their daughter, Ekaterina Nikolaevna Lavrova-Vasilyeva , became a famous dramatic actress; their three sons also dedicated their lives to the scene.
Notes
- ↑ Pre-revolutionary sources unanimously indicate the year 1802; later sources - 1805.
- ↑ The time of death is erroneously indicated in the Riemann Music Dictionary.
- ↑ Belinsky V. G. Complete Works ... T. 5 - P. 380.
Literature
- Lavrov, Nikolai Vladimirovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- Lavrov, Nikolai Vladimirovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Lavrov // Musical Dictionary : 3 t. / Comp. H. Riemann ; additional Russian department at the staff. P. Weimarn and others; per. and all add. by ed. Yu. D. Engel . - per. from the 5th it. ed. - Moscow — Leipzig: ed. B.P. Jurgenson , 1904 .