Singer from Moldova of the Soviet period. The most beautiful Moldovan women in the world

Maria was born in large family in Moldova, in the village of Trusheni. Maria began to sing early, she liked it very much, and her silvery voice could be heard in the courtyard of the house, and in the field, and in the vineyard. Often her parents took her to all sorts of celebrations, and there, climbing onto a chair, little Mariyka sang to the admiring villagers. In the village, she was given the nickname "fata kare kynta" - "the girl who sings." She sang and amateur performances. One of these concerts was attended by a delegation of guests from Russia as part of the then Decade of Masters of Arts of the RSFSR. At the head of the delegation was great composer Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich. He was amazed by the singing of a little girl and said to the minister of culture of Moldova who was sitting next to him: "This girl should study music." Mariyka was accepted to a music school - a boarding school for gifted children at the Moldovan Conservatory in the violin class, but she never parted with singing, continuing to perform with various folk orchestras. She was accidentally heard by the head of the Leningrad ensemble "Druzhba" Alexander Bronevitsky and invited to work. So Maria Codreanu entered the professional stage, replacing the famous Edita Piekha, who was then on foreign tours, in the ensemble. Later, Maria worked at the Lenconcert with the trio of the brilliant pianist Simon Kagan, in the jazz orchestra of I. Weinstein, in the group of Ben Benetsianov. In Leningrad, she graduated from the music school at the conservatory in classical vocals with Henrietta Apter, and pop vocals at Lina Arkhangelskaya. In 1969, she was invited to return to Moldova to work at the Moldgosphilharmonia, where she created a vocal and instrumental ensemble, which she led for nine years and was its constant soloist. In 1967, at the international pop song contest in Sochi, she sang Alexandra Pakhmutova's song "Tenderness" and received the first prize. In 1972, at the 10th International Pop Song Contest in Sopot, Maria became the Laureate, brilliantly performing Oscar Feltsman's song to the verses of Robert Rozhdestvensky "The Ballad of Colors". In 1978 she moved to Moscow, where she became a soloist of the Mosconcert. Graduated in 1986 State Academy theatrical art like a director. She toured with great success in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Austria, New York, where she performed in concert hall Millennium. In her repertoire popular songs in German, English, Japanese, Moldavian, Yiddish, Italian. Maria pays a lot of attention to charitable activities, being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees charitable foundation International Assembly of Women of the World. Maria Codreanu - People's Artist of Moldova and Honored Artist of Russia, Laureate of international competitions, Laureate of the National Russian Prize "Leader", awarded the Order of Catherine the Great. Her name is in the book Famous people Moscow".

The "golden age" of the Moldovan stage - this is how most of our artists of the middle generation speak of the 80s. No more “Western things” for you - no “plywood”, no “fans”, no “show business”, but free broadcasts on radio and television. And many more concerts and tours, albeit often local importance, but scheduled for the year ahead. Rare lucky ones from Moldova even managed to light up on the all-union sites and conquer almost the entire USSR with their “national color” and sincerity. However, the Moldovan stars of the 80s had enough national fame in abundance ...

Group "Contemporanul" ("Norok") - the first Moldovan "Star Factory"

For three decades, for the Moldovan stage, "Norok" was not only a standard musical taste, but also a real forge of personnel. The soloists of the group, like fledgling chicks, flew out of the nest with a solid portfolio, which allowed them to easily build their own creative career. The team itself, which performed in the 80s as "Contemporanul", by that time had already experienced the peak of its popularity, but still gathered full halls in the cities and towns of the Soviet Union. Guru "Noroka" Mihai Dolgan and his wife Lidia Botezatu were only at home alone out of 12 months of the year. The couple's son, Radu, became a member of the band in 1988. He still remembers the very first tour in his life.

- It was a tour of Romania, - says Radu Dolgan. - I knew that my parents were popular, but I did not suspect such a scale of people's love! In one of the towns, people stopped our bus, and in a few minutes we gave out more than 200 autographs. At that moment, I felt a sense of pride and happiness.

Primavara - Formatia Contemporanul (NOROC).

Stefan Petrache changed his stage tuxedo to a jersey and rubber boots

Norok, Singing Guitars, Moscow jazz band famous Anatolia Kroll. All these are milestones of the rich creative biography Moldovan performer Stefan Petrache. By the beginning of the 80s, his name was in the generally recognized musical authority. Behind him is a solid number of records released by the Melodiya company (all records are broken by the song "Crede me"), and the stable popularity of the allied scale. In 1982, Petrak creates "Play" - a group that sings songs based on poems by Eminescu, Vieru and Voda. However, the team, which does not spray on the “pop music” that was then in vogue, ceases to exist after 2.5 years. After the collapse of Play, the musician left to work on television, and in the 91st he decided to break with the profession and plunged headlong into the construction business. It is Petrache that the Chisinau residents owe the appearance of the first apartments of the so-called elite layout.

- AT Hard times when I had to feed my family, I changed my fashionable stage costume on a jersey and rubber boots and went to supervise the construction site, - says Stefan Petrache. - I missed music very much and continue to experience this feeling to this day. However, I understand that the stage is a turned page of my life. For several years now, I have retired from business, and today I do not get tired of enjoying a new role for myself - a grandfather. A year ago, I had two beautiful twin grandsons.

Stefan Petrache live.

George Tsopa almost became a restaurateur

This singer with a mop curly hair with his special, memorable voice, he could reach the most subtle spiritual strings of the Moldovan public. The soloist of the famous "Contemporanul", a pupil of the legendary Petr Aldya-Teodorovich, in the second half of the 80s went on an independent creative voyage and on the wave national revival sang the main hit of his life - "Venice akase". The next decade Georgy Tsopa, like all his colleagues in the shop, experienced a very difficult time. He performed at weddings, kumetriya, and then he decided to do business and opened his own bar on Chekany. The institution was popular, including among fellow artists. However, the singer quickly got bored with VAT and debit-credits, and he happily returned to the profession.

- I rented out my bar a few years ago, but I am very glad that I had such an entrepreneurial experience in my life, - George Tsopa says. - Today I also opened a beauty salon, but my wife pays more attention to this business. I will always have music in the first place, without which I simply cannot imagine my life.

George_Topa.

Ion Suruceanu - the main forget-me-not of the national stage

The star of the "Moldovan Celentano" Ion Suruceanu lit up in the USSR in 1984. Then, having left the "Contemporanul", he created his own group "Real" with the permission of the Ministry of Culture. The singer, performing songs with an "Italian flavor", quickly became popular. A year later, the Moldovan vocalist, together with Valery Leontiev, is entrusted to represent Soviet Union at the prestigious Zielona Gora festival in Poland. Ion Suruceanu becomes the host of the music program Central Television"With a song for life." In 1987, in Moscow alone, he gives more than 60 performances, among them big concert in the famous Palace of Sports. Then the singer's signature hit was born - the legendary "Forget-Me-Not".

- This song was written for me by Slava Dobrynin to the verses of Mikhail Ryabinin, - remembers Ion Suruceanu. - On "Song of the Year - 87" the hit became a laureate. But now "Forget-Me-Not" is much more popular than more than 20 years ago. I remember that time as a time of youth, fulfilled hopes and real creative realization.

Ion Suruceanu "Forget-Me-Not".

Riku Voda once almost drove all the girls of Jurmala crazy

Also a “Norokovite”, Riku Voda was once called a real “lighter” of the national stage. FROM long hair, in an insanely fashionable jacket, in 1985, with his charisma, he literally struck the whole musical Jurmala. Then the Moldovan artist not only won a whole bunch of prestigious awards, but was also recognized, along with Alexander Malinin and Aziza, as the most bright participant competition. After the triumph in Latvia, our performer was the No. 1 candidate for the legendary Sopot. But it did not work out ... But in his homeland, Ricu Voda entered the first clip of the Moldavian stage. His signature "Alyarge kaiy" is still in rotation.

- This song was written by me as a joke, in 5 minutes. I couldn't even imagine that she would be so popular, - shares with Komsomolskaya Pravda Riku Voda. - With the advent of the hard times of the 90s, hard times came for us, artists. I had to play in restaurants, schools and cold recreation centers. Musician friends invited me to work abroad, but I did not dare. Today I speak infrequently, but I am going to give a speech in the fall, on my 50th birthday. solo concert in his native Philharmonic.

RICU VODA ALEARGA CAII remix.

Coric sisters - Georgeta and Oksana - introduced the fashion for duets in Moldova

The soloists of "Contemporanul" Georgeta and Oksana were considered by all viewers to be twins. The artistes, the difference between which is exactly a year old, tried their best to emphasize their similarity on the stage. And this could not help fueling the interest of the curious Moldovan public in them. However, the authors also loved the sisters for their modesty and sincerity. The masters of literature - Grigory Vieru and Dmitry Matkovsky brought their poems for songs to them. It was he who wrote the famous song about Chisinau for Georgeta and Oksana.

- The eighties were the most eventful for us and interesting years life, - says Georgeta Coric. - We did what we love, performed on stage and everywhere - in the Baltic States, Siberia or at home in Moldova, we felt the most important thing for every artist - the love of the audience. With the collapse of Norok, my sister and I briefly went to the Legend group, and then practically moved away from creativity. Today I work in the Metropolitan Department of Architecture, and Sylvia works as a translator.

SURORILE CIORICI - CHISINAUL MEU CEL MIC.

Sylvia and Anatoly Kiriyak put Germany, Japan ... and Mozambique on their ears

Singer and composer. Their romance unfolded before the eyes of Sofia Rotaru, in whose group ("Chervona Ruta") they had been working since 1978. It was Anatoly Kiriyak who authored the famous Romantique, which became truly triumphant for Sofia Mikhailovna. However, the musician wrote most of the hits for his wife, a student of Veronica Garstea herself (Doina Chapel) Sylvia Kiriyak. Together with her, as part of the created group, they traveled half the world, including such exotic countries as Japan and Mozambique. Long years the melody of the Moldavian composer "Mihaela" was the intro to the weather forecast on the Central Television.

- In the 80s, pop fashion in Europe was set by the Italians, - says composer Anatoly Kiriyak. - I wrote a lot of hits for Sylvia in this style. It was a time of very close communication of the entire creative space of the USSR. We were friends with Alexander Serov and Igor Krutoy. He also liked to joke: I'm Cool, but you, Tolya, are cooler. In the first year of the opening of the famous “Vzglyad”, Vladislav Listyev invited me and my wife to the program. Then a well-known journalist came to our concert in Chisinau. With the collapse of the Union, when the Moldovan stage fell into a state of suspended animation, I organized the first concert agency, and Sylvia took up the upbringing of children. Today we are performing again, but, of course, not as actively as we used to.

"Mikaela" - Anatoly Kiriyak (Melody Ensemble).

Anastasia Lazaryuk gave Philip Kirkorov a start in life Wider circle ”, which was led on the first central TV channel by Philip Kirkorov, an unknown young singer from Bulgaria. Once, having asked the Moldovan artist for an autograph, he persuaded her to take him on tour with her. From a tour of Moldova and light hand Anastasia Lazaryuk and the career of the future pop king began.

Anastasia Lazaruk - Stork.

OPINION OF THE SPECIALIST

Marian STYRCHA, artistic director National Philharmonic:

The 80s went down in the history of the Moldovan stage as a time of very high quality music. The singers worked with good poets and composers. Domestic performers were loved throughout the Union, so they toured a lot and did not think about their daily bread. There was stability and perspective, which cannot be said about today...

Vladimir Samsonov (1963)

Honored Artist of Russia, laureate of the International Competition of Opera Singers. M. Del Monaco (Italy, Grand Prix and Audience Award)

Born in Chisinau in a family opera singer. In 1991 he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Conservatory. ON THE. Rimsky-Korsakov (vocal class of Associate Professor S. R. Ryazantsev). Improvement of vocal skills continued with teachers: E. Manukhova (Gromova), F. Pagliazzi, F. Barbieri. From 1991-1995 he was a soloist with the Opera and Ballet Theater of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where he performed the parts: Eugene Onegin (Eugene Onegin), Figaro (The Barber of Seville), Aeneas (Dido and Aeneas). From 1993 to 1995 he was director of the choir of the Young Voices of Russia conservatory. In 1991-2003 - soloist of the St. Petersburg state theater musical comedy. From 1994 to the present he has been a soloist Mariinsky Theater. On the Mariinsky stage debuted in March 1994 as Dandini.

Sarah Gorby (real name Gorbevich) (1900-1980)

French pop singer (contralto), chansonnier.

Born in Chisinau in 1900. At the age of 17, she left to study vocal skills in Iasi. After graduating from the Iasi Conservatory, she married the newspaper publisher Joseph Goldstein, much older than her. According to legend, one of the conditions for Sarah Gorby, who planned her singing career, was not to have children, so as not to lose her voice, as happened to Sarah's mother, who had 7 children. After the wedding, the couple moved to Rome, and then to Paris, where they settled. speaking under stage name Gorby, became popular primarily in Latin America(at that time its main concert venue), and then to the United States (where she first arrived in December 1935, and again in the spring of 1936, after which her tour of the United States became regular). The singer's repertoire included songs in 9 languages. In 1940, Sarah Gorby and her husband left Paris and fled to Haiti, a few years later to the United States. Here the singer continued her performances with programs of Jewish songs and Russian romance. In 1948, Sarah Gorby spent a touring season in Europe, driving around in an American jeep "which shook her senselessly." In the 1950s, on the labels Philips, Arion, O.S.I. Disques, Barclay Disques, Galton and others, Sarah Gorby's long-playing records began to come out, old Melotone 78-rpm records were transferred to a new long-playing format. At the same time, tape recordings of Sarah Gorby's songs first appeared in the USSR. In 1953, she was awarded the le grand prix du disque. Songs performed by Sarah Gorby were used in the soundtrack of the film "Onegin" directed by Martha Fiennes with Ralph Fiennes and Liv Tyler in the lead roles (1999). The Sarah Gorby Award is given to artists whose work is related to the Yiddish language.

Yakov Gorsky (real name Fainberg) (1867-1935)

Opera singer.

Born in Lipcany. He took singing lessons in Milan with Professor Bradillo, studied at the Vienna Conservatory in the class of Viktor von Rokitansky and at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He took a directing course under the direction of Joachim Viktorovich Tartakov at the Mariinsky Theater (1895). He made his debut on April 12, 1880 in Aubert's Fra Diavolo at the Mondoni Breo Theatre. In 1886, Yakov Gorsky performed as Faust at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. Later he performed in Iasi, Moscow, Odessa, Kazan, Minsk, Vienna, Rome and Paris. Managed a private opera studio in Chisinau and taught at the Russian Music School musical society. Among the students of Ya. L. Gorsky - Romanian singer(soprano) Lydia Babich.

Maria Cebotari (1910-1949)

Opera singer.

Born in Chisinau. As a child, she sang in the choir of the Chisinau Cathedral under the direction of M. Berezovsky. She studied at the Chisinau Conservatory, after graduating from which in 1929 she joined the troupe of the Moscow art theater. Soon she married the artist of the troupe Count Alexander Vyrubov. From 1929 she studied in Berlin. In 1931 she made her debut in Dresden and at the Salzburg Festival. Until 1943 she performed in Berlin and Dresden, until her untimely death she was a member of the ensemble Vienna Opera.In 1948 she participated in the first post-war tour of the Vienna Opera in Covent Garden (London). She also starred in several films.

Isabella (Iza) Kremer (1887-1956)

She gained worldwide fame, not only as an excellent performer of songs and romances, but also as a film actress.

Born in Balti. She studied singing in Milan with a famous teacher. Returning to her homeland, she successfully performed in Odessa, Petrograd, Moscow. After the revolution, in 1919, Isa emigrated to France. In early December 1943, Isa Kremer, together with Maurice Chevalier, Marlene Dietrich and Vadim Kozin, performed in a concert for the participants in the Tehran Conference. November 19, 1944 Isa Kremer gave a concert at Carnegie Hall. Due to its very active social activities in Argentina, where Isa lived with her husband, the couple suffered: he lost his job, and Isa was excommunicated from the big halls, hushed up in every possible way. But she remained true to her ideals of peace and justice. The famous Yiddish song "Main Shteytele Balts" (My town of Balti) was written in Yiddish especially for Iza Kremer by the poet Yakov Jacobs and the composer Alexander Olshanetsky.

Valentina Cuza (real name Efrosinya) (1868 -1910)

Opera singer (drama soprano), wife of the composer Yu. I. Bleikhman.

Born in the village of Tarnovo, Soroca district, Bessarabian province. In 1878 she entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Since 1891 improved in Paris with M. Sass. Returning to St. Petersburg, she performed in several performances of the opera "Aida" by G. Verdi on the stage of the private Panaevsky Theater. In 1894-1905 and in 1907-10 she was a soloist at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre. In 1905-07 - soloist Bolshoi Theater. She had an even voice of a wide range in all registers, she was fluent in thinning and trilling. Her repertoire consisted of 47 parties. In her concert repertoire included works by M. Mussorgsky, A. Serov, A. Rubinstein, P. Tchaikovsky, S. Taneyev, N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Yu. I. Bleikhman (the composer dedicated the romance “I saw you in a dream” to the singer).

Lilia Amarfiy (1949-2010)

Soloist of the Moscow Operetta Theatre.

Born in Orhei. She started singing at the age of six. Then she took dancing lessons and playing the accordion. Success was not long in coming, and Lilia was invited to the national Moldovan ensemble "Codru", where she soon became the leading performer. All-Union glory came to her when Lilia moved to Moscow. Was accepted into GITIS. And after his graduation, in the 72nd year, she came to the Moscow Operetta Theater, where she played until her death. During her creative career, the singer has performed many roles in performances of the classical and modern repertoire, as well as in musicals. She played in bat”, “Silva”, “Count of Luxembourg”, “Servant”, “Merry Widow” and “Paris Life”.

Methodie Bujor (1974)

Opera singer.

Born in Moldova. After graduating from the Chisinau Academy of Music “named after Gavriil Muzicescu” in 2000, he began his career working in the troupe of the Moscow Theater “ New Opera” under the direction of Evgeny Kolobov. He made his debut as Sparafucili in the opera Rigoletto by G. Verdi, with the participation of Dmitry Hvorostovsky in the role of Rigoletto. After a successful debut, he performed the parts: Gremina in the opera Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Cecil in the opera Maria Stuart by Donizetti, Salieri in the opera Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov, etc. In 2003-2005. invited as a soloist in "OperaLeipzig". During this period, he performed the following roles: Colin in Puccini's La bohème, Ramfis in Verdi's Aida, Mephistopheles in Berlioz's The Damnations of Faust, Ponte in Berlioz's Troy, Biterholf in Wagner's Tannhäuser, Serse in the opera "Themistocle" by I.K. Bach.

Methodie Bujor has an extensive tour activity, both operatic and concert all over the world. Since 2003 he has been collaborating with opera festivals and theaters in Italy, Germany (OperaLeipzig, OperaHamburg, France (OperaTulus), Holland. He gives concerts in America, England, China, Switzerland, Spain. He has performed and collaborated with such conductors as: Valery Gergiev, Ricardo Shai (Italy), Christov Rosse (France), Evgeny Kolobov, Jeanne Carlo Minotti (Italy), Ivan Angelov (Bulgaria), Mikhail Yurovsky (Germany), Ion Marin (Austria), Daniele Rustioni (Italy).