Nina Koshetz

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Nina Koshetz (Russian: Нина Павловна Кошиц; real last name Poray-Koshetz (ru: Порай-Кошиц); December 30, 1891 - May 14, 1965) was a Ukrainian, later American, soprano opera and recital singer. Early life and career Her father, a famous opera singer Pavel Koshetz (ru: Павел Алексеевич Кошиц; 1863 - March 2, 1904), committed suicide. She was then 12 years. She was born into a family of intellectuals in Kiev, then moved to Moscow and became an opera singer. In 1908—13 she studied in Mosow State Conservatory (professor of solo singing U. Mazetti), her piano teachers were N. Shishkin, K. Igumnov, S. Taneev). Having received voice lessons in France from the retired dramatic soprano Felia Litvinne, she sang leading roles in opera and performed in principal opera houses across Russia and Europe. In the late 1910s she performed at the Petrograd Conservatory and was accompanied by then-unknown Vladimir Horowitz. She had initially resisted being accompanied by the unknown student, but afterward insisted that only he could accompany her there; she subsequently programmed some of Horowitz's songs. In 1920 she went to America and joined the Chicago Opera Association where she sang in the premiere of Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (1921). She later performed for the Russian Opera Company in New York and on tour in South America. At the end of the 1920s she was active in France, where she appeared in the French premiere of Sadko. Known for her overly-extravagant life style, he

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Nina Koshetz

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Female Singers 6: The Definitive Collection Of The 19th Century's Greatest Virtuosos (pre-1940 Vintage Record)

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Nina Koshetz, Vol. 1 (1922-1939)

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Prima Voce: Divas 1906-1935

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Great Voices of the Century Sing Tchaikovsky: Music from "The Queen of Spades," "Yolanta," "Eugene Onegin" and Others

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Prima Voce Party

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The Nina Koshetz Edition [OPAL]

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Prima Voce: Divas Vol. 2, 1909-1940

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The World of Singing Vol. 2 - Singers of Imperial Russia

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The Unpublished Treasury

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Divas 1906-1935

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Opera Divas

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