Natalia Iretskaya
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Natalia Alexandrovna Iretskaya (Russian: Наталия Александровна Ирецкая, 1845 – 15 November 1922) was a Russian singer and teacher of singing. Vocally, she is best described as a soprano.
[edit] Biography
She graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, where studied with Henrietta Nissen-Saloman (a pupil of Manuel del Popolo Vicente García). She also studied in Paris with Pauline Garcia-Viardot (a daughter and pupil of Manuel García). From 1874 she taught singing in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and became a professor in 1881.
[edit] Pupils
Among her pupils were:
- Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel,
- Elena Katulskaya,
- Lubov Andreyeva-Delmas,
- Ksenia Dorliak (mother of Nina Dorliak),
- Aikanush Danielyan,
- Lidia Lipkovskaya,
- Elizaveta Petrenko,
- Oda Slobodskaya, and others.