Bela Andreevna Rudenko

Background

Bela was born on August 18, 1933 in Anthracite, Ukraine.

Education

In 1956 she graduated with honors from the Odessa Conservatoire. A. V. Nezhdanova, class of singing Olga Blagovidova.

Career

In 1955 she made her debut at the Odessa Opera and ballet theatre. Since 1956 she has been a soloist with the Kiev Opera and ballet theatre. T. Shevchenko. In 1960, after a brilliant performance on the Decade of Ukrainian art in Moscow, the singer at the age of 27 was awarded the title of people's artist.

In 1972 she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow as Ludmila in the Opera Ruslan and Lyudmila by M. I. Glinka. The Director of play B. Pokrovitelya invited Bella from Kiev for the execution of the party. In 1973-1988 she was a soloist with the Bolshoi theatre.

Achievements

• Conducted concert and performing activities, performed with thematic programs: "Mozart", "French music", " Classical and Soviet romance»,
  
  "Rachmaninoff", "Grechaninov", "Rimsky-Korsakov – Arensky", "Glinka Dargomyzhsky", "Ukrainian composers on verses of Russian poets", etc. In the chamber repertoire Concerts for voice and orchestra Reinhold glière and G. Mayboroda (the last was composed especially for the singer and dedicated to her).
  
  Since 1957 she has toured many cities of the USSR and abroad (France, Japan, USA, Canada, great Britain, Mexico, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Philippines), performed at Opera houses in Italy (including "La Scala"), Germany, Yugoslavia, etc.
  
  In 1992 she headed the Bolshoi theatre development fund.
  
  Bela Andreevna graduated singing activity in 1995. Farewell performance of the singer at the Bolshoi theatre was Opera by P. Tchaikovsky "Iolanta".
  
  In 1995-1999-artistic Director of the Bolshoi theatre Opera company.
  
  She started her teaching career at the Kiev Conservatory (class of solo singing). Since 1977 he has taught at the Moscow Conservatoire. P. Tchaikovsky (1989 — Professor of the Department of solo singing).
  
  

Works

• Other Work

  • Opera parts
    
    Kiev theatre of Opera and ballet of T. Shevchenko
    
    • "Rigoletto" Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi-Gilda
    
    • "La Traviata" By G. Verdi. Verdi-Violetta
    
    • "The magic flute" W. A. Mozart — Queen of the night
    
    • "Lucia di Lammermoor" by G. Donizetti — Lucia
    
    • "Fra Diavolo" Auber D. — Zerlina
    
    • "The pearl fishers" by Georges Bizet — Leila
    
    • "Lakme" By L. Delibes — Lakmé
    
    • "Milan" G. I. Maiboroda — Yola
    
    * Arsenal Of G. I. Mayboroda-Yarina
    
    • "Taras Shevchenko" G. I. Maiboroda — defensive girl
    
    • "War and peace" Prokofiev — Natasha Rostova
    
    • "Masked ball" by G. Verdi. Verdi — Oscar the page
    
    • The "Aeneid" N. V. Lysenko — Venus
    
    • "First spring" by G. L. Zhukovsky-Stasia
    
    Bolshoi theatre
    
    • "Ivan Susanin" M. I. Glinka — Antonida
    
    • "Ruslan and Lyudmila" by M. Glinka — Ludmila
    
    • "The Tsar's bride" by N.. Rimsky-Korsakov Marfa
    
    • "Sadko" By N.. Rimsky-Korsakov — Volkhov
    
    • "Iolanta" By P. I. Tchaikovsky — Iolanta
    
    • "The Barber of Seville" by G. Verdi. Rossini-Rosina
    
    Filmography
    
    * 1957-Dumka (film-concert)
    
    * 1958-Man to man (film-concert)
    
    * 1967-Theatre and fans (film-concert) - main role
    
    * 1971-Bela Rudenko (documentary)
    
    * 1979-Ivan Susanin (Opera film)
    
    

    (Opera parts Kiev theatre of Opera and ballet of T. Shevc...)

Connections

Family

• First husband — Vladimir Nikolaevich Efremenko, was the head of the department of culture of the CP of Ukraine, Deputy Minister of culture of the USSR.

* Daughter-Kateryna Rudenko (1962)

* Second husband — Polad Bulbul Oglu (b. 4 February 1945), Azerbaijani pop singer, composer, actor, people's artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1982), currently Ambassador extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the Russian Federation (since 2006).

• Son — Teymur Oglu Polad Bulbul (born 1975), musician, concertmaster bassoons Symphony orchestra. P. Tchaikovsky, honored artist of the Russian Federation (2005), is currently a businessman.