| Albina Shagimuratova soprano |
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| SFO 2009-2010 Season
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| Soprano Albina Shagimuratova is a second-year artist with the Houston Grand Opera Studio and a native of Russia. During Houston Grand Opera's 2007-08 season, she will sing the roles of Queen of the night in Die Zauberflöte and Musetta in La Bohème. In HGO's 2006-07 season, she sang the roles of the Sandman and Dew Fairy in Hansel and Gretel and Frantik in The Cunning Little Vixen. ...Her 2008-2009 engagements include Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, La Scala in Milan, Houston Grand Opera and Metropolitan Opera in New York./ Source |
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| Puccini gave his character of Musetta plenty of opportunities to become the cynosure on the stage, and Shagimuratova is a force of nature to take advantage of every one of them. Whether blowing kisses from the rumble seat of her motor car, or tossing crockery from the tables of the Café Momus, this Musetta shows considerable talent for brash stage gestures and the broadly comic. The voice is a high soprano with a lush lyricism and agility – exactly what is needed for “Quando me’n vo’ soletta per la via.” She is less successful muting her performance for the contemplative Musetta in the last two acts, but frankly that is not why we remember Musetta. (Shagimuratova, a current member of the Houston Opera Studio, previously had a spectacular turn as the Queen of the Night in HGO’s Die Zauberflöte this season.)/ Review |