Background
LITVINENKO-VOL’GEMUT, Mariya was born on February 6, 1895 in Kiev.
LITVINENKO-VOL’GEMUT, Mariya was born on February 6, 1895 in Kiev.
1912 graduate Kiev Music College.
1912-1914 singer, Ukraine People’s Theater, Kiev. 1914-1916 singer, Petrograd Musical Drama Theater. 1920-1923 singer, Ukraine People’s Theater, Vinnitsa.
1923-1935 soloist, Khar’kov Opera Theater. 1935-1951 soloist, Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater, Kiev. From 1946 professor, Kiev Conservatory.
Also sang lieder; Roles: various roles in: S. S. Gulak-Artemovskiy’s “Odarka” and Zaporozhets za Dunayem (A Dnieper Cossack Beyond the Danube). N. V. Lysenko’s “Natalka-Poltavka” and “Taras Bul’ba” M. I. Berikovskiy’s Naymychka (The Hired Girl). Borodin’s Knyaz’ Igor’ (Prince Igor).
Tchaikovskiy’s Pikovaya dama (Queen of Spades), “Mazepa” and “Cherevichky” (The Slippers). A. S. Dargomyzhskiy’s Rusalka (The Water-Nymph). Verdi’s “Aida”; Meyerbeer’s “The Huguenots”.
Wagner’s “Lohengrin”, “Die Walkiire” and “Tannhäuser”.
Communist Party member from 1944.