Mariinsky Theatre soloists will be dedicating the performance of the opera Faust on 13 December to Tatiana Vasilievna Novikova, Honoured Artist of Russia, a brilliant singer and coach who celebrated her jubilee this year.
Tatiana Novikova came to the Kirov Theatre from the Maly Opera Theatre in 1980. In seven years at the Maly Theatre she sang in eighteen productions, among them such rarely performed works as Orff's Die Kluge (the Peasant's Wise Daughter), Pergolesi's La serva padrona (Serpina), Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (Lily), Shchedrin's Not Love Alone (Natasha) and Hungarian composer Sándor Szokolay's Vérnász (Leonardo's Wife). This talented singer performed lead roles in La traviata (Violetta), Rigoletto (Gilda), The Tsar's Bride (Marfa), Don Giovanni (Zerlina) and La Bohème (Musetta).
At the Kirov Theatre Tatiana Novikova made her debut as Norina in the opera Don Pasquale. Here she sang as Violetta in La traviata, Desdemona in Otello, Elsa in Lohengrin, Marguerite in Faust, Marfa in The Tsar's Bride, Liza in The Queen of Spades, the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro, Micaëla in Carmen, Louisa in Betrothal in a Monastery and Gerda in the premiere of Sergei Banevich's opera The Story of Kai and Gerda. One of the singer's most memorable roles was that of Tatiana in Yuri Temirkanov's production of Eugene Onegin (1982). Today, recordings of this legendary production may easily be found on the internet and one can marvel at the freshness, spontaneity of the heroine's emotions, the subtle range of intonations and reactions through which the singer crafted the role and, finally, her impeccable vocal technique. Like her stage partner Sergei Leiferkus, Tatiana Novikova was awarded the State Prize of the USSR – for her ground-breaking portrayal of the heroine of Tchaikovsky's opera.
Tatiana Novikova learned her staggering vocal and acting skills at the Leningrad Conservatoire from the famous opera singer and coach Yevgeny Olkhovsky. Together with accompanist Elena Matusovskaya, in the mid 1970s the soloist enchanted the jury at the All-Union Glinka Competition in Tbilisi and at the International Villa-Lobos Competition in Rio de Janeiro. In 1976 together with Lyudmila Filatova at the Lesser Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic she sang the premiere of the two-voice version of Valery Gavrilin's song cycle Evening. Today Tatiana Novikova is a coach at the conservatoire, passing on her talents to the next generation of opera singers. Her graduate students include current Mariinsky Theatre soloists Alexander Timchenko and Lyudmila Dudinova.
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