Evgenia Zbrueva
Evgenija Ivanovna Zbrueva, in Russian Евге́ния Ива́новна Збру́ева, was a Russian contralto opera singer.
Early life
Zbrueva was born in Moscow, the daughter of composer Pyotr Bulakhov. She trained as a singer at the Moscow Conservatory, under E. A. Lavrovskaya.Career
Zbrueva was a contralto in the Moscow Imperial Opera at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1894, and with the Mariinsky Theatre from 1905 until 1918, including appearances in Paris and Munich. In 1915 she was appointed Professor of Singing at Petrograd Conservatory. She was named an Honored Artist of the USSR in 1922.Zbrueva's repertoire included roles in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar, Saint-Saëns' Henry VIII, Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya and The Snow Maiden, Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki, Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Ruslan and Lyudmila, Prince Igor, and ''Carmen.''