Video: Emigration stars: How the daughter of a White Guard officer became the "First Lady of the Musical" in Europe
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The name of Tatyana Pavlovna Ivanova is hardly known to the general public, although the songs performed by her are probably familiar to everyone. In Europe in the late 1950s - early 1960s. she was called the first lady of the musical, and at home she was forgotten for a long time - Ivanova was the daughter of a White Guard officer who emigrated to Germany after the revolution. How the performer of Russian romances and gypsy songs conquered Europe and Australia without achieving recognition in Russia during her lifetime - further in the review.
Tatiana Ivanova was born in 1925 in Charlottenburg - the western part of Berlin, where her parents moved after the 1917 revolution. Before that, the family lived on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg. Her father, Pavel Ivanov, was a White Guard officer, and her mother, Elena Ion, was an opera singer. Although Tatyana grew up in Germany, she was brought up in the traditions of Russian culture - in their house they spoke only Russian, and the parents instilled in their daughters a love of national songs and romances since childhood, they often listened to records with recordings of Chaliapin, Plevitskaya and other performers of that time.
After leaving school, Tatiana continued her studies at the theater school of the German Theater in Berlin. After that, she began performing on the stage of the same theater and made her film debut, shone in theaters in Hamburg and Dusseldorf. Ivanova had a magnificent voice, a bright mezzo-soprano. The greatest popularity was brought to her by the main role in the German version of the musical comedy "Hello, Dolly!" in 1966 she performed this part more than 400 times. A year later, a disc was released with songs from this performance, which were sung by all of Europe. In the late 1960s - early 1970s. Tatyana Ivanova starred in several television shows, performed leading roles in musical performances.
In the late 1950s - early 1960s. Tatyana Ivanova shone on the stages of many theaters in Europe. In Germany she was called “the first lady of music”, in Europe - “the queen of the musical”. However, her fame spread far beyond Europe. Tatyana Ivanova spent several years in Australia, where she continued to play in musicals, only now in English. And upon her return to Germany, the singer continued her pop, theatrical and film career, most often performing in the genre of operetta and musical. Until the end of her days, she retained the title of "First Lady of the Musical." She had no equal in the performance of Lara's Theme in the musical Doctor Zhivago.
Subsequently, Tatyana Ivanova turned to the Russian repertoire and began performing with her own concert programs. The famous performer of Russian and Gypsy songs and romances Ivan Rebrov played an important role in her development as an artist. They sang a duet more than once, performed together in concert programs, and released a joint disc.
The singer performed songs and romances in a manner that had developed in pre-revolutionary Russia and did not take root on the Soviet stage - in socialist culture she was considered "philistine, decadent and alien to the class consciousness of Soviet people." But in the Russian culture of emigration it remained as popular as it was, because the preservation of the vocal and stage traditions of the "old stage" was considered a priority there. For many emigrants, such songs were the only link with the lost native culture while living abroad.
On October 6, 1979, Tatyana Ivanova died of breast cancer in a clinic in Hamburg. At that time she was only 54 years old. In her historical homeland, the singer did not manage to gain wide recognition during her lifetime. Although in Europe Tatyana Ivanova was called a legendary singer, in Russia her name remained banned for a long time. The first officially released recordings of her songs appeared only in 1991 - then two vinyl giant discs were released, later reissued on CD. Moreover, back in the late 1960s. in the USSR, Russian and Gypsy songs and romances performed by her were widely known, although no one knew the name of the singer. Records of Tatyana Ivanova "Old Moscow", "His name is Anatole" and others, and after several decades, are very popular among music lovers.
The name of her stage partner in Russia was also not known for a long time: German with a Russian soul Ivan Rebrov.
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