3 February 2011 year
An 82-year-old singer and artist died at the Botkin Hospital in Moscow. Tatyana Shmyga. Prima Mosoperetta.
Rumors of operetta's death are greatly exaggerated. Operetta is a aged champagne that warms the blood, stirs the heart, making the young bold and the elderly youthful.
She was born in 1928 in Moscow. Her father worked in the statistics department, and her mother was a housewife. Her parents were passionate about the stage and hosted "balls" at home. From childhood, their daughter knew almost the entire Bolshoi Theatre repertoire.
I had a "lucrative" connection—a friend's father worked in the theater buffet. On Sundays, he would take us to matinees. Sometimes I'd forget myself so much that I'd start singing along with the soloists, and the audience would admonish me: "Girl, don't sing!"
In 1947, she entered the Musical and Theatre School and graduated from GITIS in 1953. She performed with the Moscow Operetta Theatre for over 40 years. She achieved national fame after performing the lead role in the operetta Isaac Dunaevsky "White Acacia".
She performed in the operettas "Chanita's Kiss," "The Circus Lights Up," "Ball at the Savoy," and "Silva." She called the composer's operetta her favorite. Konstantin Listov "Sevastopol Waltz".
Do you remember,
How did happiness smile upon us?
Just for you
The heart was burning with love
("Silvia")
I have this problem: I'm very funny. During the performance of "The Circus Lights Up," an actor backstage got the wrong way around and appeared onstage not through the door, but through the fireplace. I burst into hysterics, and I had to call the curtain.
She played the first Eliza Doolittle in the premiere musical "My Fair Lady" based on the play Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion".
At 32, she became the first actress of the operetta theater to become an Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Art lovers said that ballet is Maya Plisetskaya, opera - Elena Obraztsova, and the operetta is Tatiana Shmyga.
For some reason, operetta is often called an "easy genre," whereas it's a challenging and worthy art form. Go see an operetta, gentlemen!
At 34 she made her film debut in The Hussar Ballad Eldara Ryazanova (played the French actress Louise Germont, who is rescued by the hussars).
Call me, my dear chosen one,
Let's forget what happened, my dear chosen one,
There is no more wonderful power than the power of love!
(Germont romance)
I really like the movie and I don't like myself in it.
In 1969, she played the leading role in the updated version of "The Violet of Montmartre" - Ninon Tissier - and performed the composition "Karambolina".
"Karambolina" literally grew into my soul and "haunts" me to this day: no matter what program they make about me, they will certainly include "Karambolina", as if I have never sung anything else in my life.
She was also remembered for her roles in the plays “Comrade Love”, “Gentlemen Artists”, “Hispaniola, or Lope de Vega Suggested”, and “The Bat”.
She played in the films “Abduction”, “Something from Provincial Life” and television versions of operettas.
Operetta performers must be very healthy people in order to sing and dance at the same time.
She was never late for a rehearsal in her life. In recent years, she suffered from leg pain, but she continued to perform on stage until she was 81.
Two years before her death, she underwent several operations and the amputation of part of her leg.
In 2011, she was posthumously awarded the Golden Mask Prize “For her contribution to the development of theatrical art.”
And if it's the end, I won't cry.
I'll tell you honestly, I won't cry!
A glass has a bottom, but a bullet contains lead!
(Germont's romance from "The Hussar Ballad")
