Miroshnychenko Yevheniia Semenivna (12 June 1931, Hrafske, Vovchansk district, Kharkiv region, Ukrainian SSR, USSR - 27 April 2009, Kyiv, Ukraine) was a Soviet and Ukrainian opera singer; teacher, professor. People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1981) and the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1972). Hero of Ukraine (2006). Honorary citizen of Kyiv and Kharkiv.
She was born in 1931 in the village of Sovietske (now Hrafske, Vovchansk district, Kharkiv region, Ukraine).
In 1951-1957, she studied at the Kyiv Conservatory in the class of Professor Maria Donets-Tessier.
In 1961, she trained at the La Scala Theatre in Milan.
In 1957-1997 she was a soloist (lyrical and colouratura soprano) at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Since 1980, she has been teaching at the Kyiv Conservatory at the Department of Solo Singing, and since 1990 she has been a professor.
In 2002, she founded the E. S. Miroshnychenko Charitable Foundation.
She died on 27 April 2009 in Kyiv. She was buried in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery (plot No. 52a).
Creative work.
Crown opera roles: Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor by G. Donizetti), Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart), Lakmé (Lakmé by L. Delibes).
Other roles include Rosina (The Barber of Seville by G. Rossini), Violetta (La Traviata by G. Verdi), Musetta (La bohème by G. Puccini), Manon (Manon by J. Massenet)...
She recorded on radio and gramophone records.
She starred in musical films; in particular, she sang in S. Parajanov's film "Ukrainian Rhapsody" (1961). She also gave concerts.
She toured the USA, Canada, and Western Europe.
Among her students are Valentyna Stepova, O. Nahorna, Nataliia Shelepnytska, O. Tereshchenko, K. Strashchenko, R. Kulyniak, O. Haievska, S. Chakhoyan, T. Khodakova, O. Yarova, T. Huzun, O. Pashchuk, O. Kyrylovska, L. Taran, O. Verba, K. Abdulina, S. Merlichenko, I. Ziabchenko, S. Pilkevych, O. Arbuzova, O. Savchenko, H. Gregorchak, D. Ivanchenko, V. Semenova, O. Bezsmertna, O. Kazantseva-Kabka.
Yevheniia Miroshnychenko and the Kyiv Small Opera
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In the last years of her life, the singer made great efforts to create the Mala Opera on the basis of the Lukianivka Folk House (then the Tram Workers' Club) - a concert venue where rarely performed classical opera masterpieces could be staged, experimental productions could be carried out, and young musicians could develop their talent. It was on her initiative that the Kyiv Small Opera was founded in 2004. However, the opera diva passed away without seeing the final realisation of her plan.
Discography
LPs (all - Moscow: Melody):
Evgenia Miroshnichenko. Fragment and arias from operas / Kam. ork. Kyiv State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after Taras Shevchenko. 1966;
Eugenia Miroshnichenko / Ork. Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR / M. Aiyer - C10 12283-4. 1979;
Р. Glier: Concerto for voice and orchestra, op. 82 / E Miroshnichenko (soprano), ork. Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR / M. Zrmler - C10 12751-2. 1979.
Filmography
"Songs over the Dnipro (1958, vocals)
"Lucia di Lammermoor (1980, film-opera; Lucia)
"Ukrainian Rhapsody" (1981, Oksana (voiceover) - the role of O. Petrenko)
Articles
Lighted up with a smile Music. - 1999. - № 5;
3 villages of Soviet // KiZh. - 1978. - 16 April;
I want to see my country happy // Uryadovyi Kurier. - 1999. - 18 March;
I call such intentions criminal // Dzerkalo Tyzhnia. - 1999. - 3-5 March.
Awards.
On 26 August 2006, by the decree of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, she was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.
Winner of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1972).
Laureate of the International Vocal Competition in Toulouse (France, 1958), the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1957).
She is a holder of the Order of Yaroslav the Wise, the Order for the Development of Ukraine, the Order of Glory "For Loyalty to the Motherland", the Order of the Badge of Honour, the Order of Achievement in Culture, and the international award of St Stanislav.
Holder of the honorary title "Star of Ukrainian Art".
Order of Lenin (1967) Order of the October Revolution (1976) Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981)
Honorary Citizen of Kyiv. Honorary Citizen of Kharkiv (2001).
Commemoration of the memory
At the plenary session of the Kyiv City Council on 10 November 2016, the deputies decided to rename Sofia Perovska Street in Kyiv in honour of Yevheniia Miroshnychenko. The decision will come into force after its official publication in the Khreshchatyk newspaper.
On 24 October 2021, the National Opera of Ukraine presented a collection of vocal works from Yevheniia Miroshnychenko's concert and chamber repertoire "The Soul is a Lily of the Valley..." by the compilers: Orysia Balanko, PhD in Art History, singer, pianist, associate professor of the R. M. Glière Kyiv Municipal Academy of Music, Yevheniia's student, and conductor, arranger, and composer Vitalii Fizer.
