Russian Lyubov Kazarnovskaya is a well-known figure in the world of opera music. She has long had the status of a star, as she has not only breathtaking charisma, but also an unusual timbre of her voice. According to IBC, the woman is included in the list of the most outstanding musicians of the 20th century. In parallel with the successful promotion of her solo career, the singer manages to educate young talents. Lyubov organized her own academy “Voce e Violino”, within the framework of which any young performer will be able to try his hand at the world stage.
Biography of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya is an opera singer who made her debut in the opera “Eugene Onegin” as Tatiana. In the past, she was a soloist of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater and the Mariinsky Theater (then the Kirov State Academic Theatre). In 1989, a woman became the first Russian soprano singer invited to the Salzburg Music Festival by the great Herbert von Karajan. From that moment on, her dizzying career began on the international opera stage: the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala... In recent years, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya has also been involved in teaching.
Opera diva Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya now
In September 2019, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya’s book “Opera Secrets” was published, in which she shared with readers the secrets, dramas and scandals of the world of the musical stage, as well as personal experiences and reflections on modern theater. The presentation took place at the Moscow House of Books on Novy Arbat.
In October, the singer took part in the award ceremony for the winners of the international competition “Salute of Talents”. She also became the initiator and author of the new project “Moscow gatherings with Lyubov Kazarnovskaya.” As part of it, the singer invites famous guests from the art world for an interesting conversation in a “live” format, with the active participation of the public.
At the beginning of 2020, Lyubov Yuryevna performed on the stage of the Russian Song Theater with the Dolce Vita charity concert. The singer’s plans include continuing to work with young musicians, as well as participating in the Volkovsky Theater’s production of “Pushkiniana. Love and cards."
Kazarnovskaya’s childhood and family
The hometown of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya is Moscow. Her mother, Lidia Ignatievna, was a philologist by training, taught Russian language and literature, and the baby’s father, Yuri Ignatievich, had the rank of reserve general, was engaged in military-political work, and was also a specialist in military history. When little Lyubov was born, her older sister Natalya was already growing up in the family. Subsequently, the eldest daughter of the Kazarnovskys followed in the footsteps of her philologist mother, choosing the specialty “French grammar”.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya in childhood
Lyuba always liked to sing, the girl seriously studied music, but after graduation she decided to apply to the Faculty of Foreign Languages. Shortly before admission, she decided to try her luck and submitted documents to the vocal department of Gnesinka.
Very soon, the teachers paid attention to a student with a rare operatic voice that had a unique timbre. The Gnessin School was followed by the Moscow Conservatory, where the girl underwent graduate school, graduating in 1985. However, Lyubov always considered the turning point in her life, which influenced her further creative path, to be her meeting with Fyodor Chaliapin’s accompanist and Stanislavsky’s former student, vocal teacher Nadezhda Malysheva-Vinogradova.
Family life
For the sake of his beloved wife and son, Robert Roscik left his job in Vienna. He followed Kazarnovskaya when she was offered a job in the United States. Then, 10 years later, the family decided to return to Russia together. One of the reasons for this choice was the high level of musical education that they planned to give their son. According to the singer, in Europe or America she has not met such responsible and talented teachers as in her native country. Therefore, I really wanted Andrei to study music in Moscow.
The spouses say trust in each other is the secret to family happiness. According to Robert, when you meet your person, you need to appreciate this happiness given from above, and not overshadow it with insults, jealousy, and quarrels. Lyubov Yuryevna herself admitted that next to her husband she learned to be softer, more feminine, and more tolerant. True, at the beginning of their life together she tried to establish matriarchy in the family. The upbringing of a general’s daughter, who was accustomed to command and suppress, had an effect. But very soon Kazarnovskaya realized how lucky she was with her husband. On the contrary, the less you demand or pressure from him, the more willingly he meets you halfway, becoming the head of the family without unnecessary reminders.
Having raised their son, the couple finally had the opportunity to spend maximum time together. Rostsik accompanies his wife on tours, performances, filming, and resolves organizational issues for her. Robert and Lyubov have many common interests, they are still interested in each other. The couple like to spend their free time in their own home in Bavaria, reading books, watching TV, and cooking their favorite dishes. The couple is not interested in active recreation, since their work already involves constant travel, business meetings, and visits to public places.
By the way, Kazarnovskaya even does shopping in the company of her husband. It was he who had a hand in creating her stage image when he began to give large unusual jewelry. And very soon they turned into an integral part of the singer’s image. Robert also helps his wife with the choice of concert outfits, accurately determining what will suit her. Over 30 years of marriage, they became truly close and dear people, and they were not at all tired of each other. On the contrary, the opera star admits that she “needs her husband like air.”
The beginning of the career of singer Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
In 1981, while studying at the capital's conservatory, Lyubov Yuryevna made her debut as Tatiana in the opera Eugene Onegin. In 1984, she sang one of the main roles in the opera “The Tale of the Invisible City of Kitezh”, and also won the Grand Prix of the UNESCO Festival of Young Performers, held in Bratislava. In Pagliacci (production of 1985), the girl brilliantly performed the part of Nedda.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya in her youth
Since 1986, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya has been the leading soloist of the Mariinsky Theater. Her repertoire included many complex roles - “Don Juan”, “Faust”, “Force of Destiny”. Leonora from the last production forever became one of her favorite roles.
Youth
After graduating from school, young Lyubov submits documents to the acting department of the Gnessin Institute. It was there, performing classical works - arias from operas by Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Rimsky-Korsakov, that she realized that this particular genre was capable of maximally revealing her boundless talent. In 1982, the young singer graduated from the Moscow Conservatory.
How old was Lyubov Kazarnovskaya at that time? At that time she was 26. She was quite an adult and accomplished person. While still a student at the conservatory, Lyubov performs on the stage of the Stanislavsky Theater. There she makes her first debut in the role of Tatyana (opera Eugene Onegin).
The triumph of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya in opera
The singer's first triumph abroad was her performance on the stage of Covent Garden - the same role of Tatiana from the opera Eugene Onegin. In 1989, the singer received an invitation from Herbert von Karajan to attend the summer festival taking place in Salzburg. There the singer made her debut in Giuseppe Verdi's "Requiem" conducted by Riccardo Muti. Lyubov's performance was highly praised by the entire music world.
This was the beginning of a successful career that eventually brought the singer with a bright voice to the largest opera stages in the world: Milan, San Francisco, London, New York, Chicago, Vienna. Her partners on stage at different times were the greatest opera singers of our time: Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.
For three years, starting in 1994, the opera singer collaborated with the Mariinsky Theater and, in particular, with Valery Gergiev. In 1996, she made her debut at La Scala in the opera The Player.
Kazarnovskaya’s repertoire includes more than fifty parties; this truly brilliant singer was recognized as the best performer of Verdi’s operas, and was also dubbed “the best Salome of our time.”
“The Lyubov Kazarnovskaya Foundation” is the name of the foundation founded by the opera diva in 1997, the main goal of which is the development and maintenance of opera art in the country. Thanks to Kazarnovskaya, Russia has been visited more than once by the most famous masters of vocal art with valuable lessons and master classes. On behalf of the Lyubov Kazarnovskaya Foundation, concerts of world celebrities are often organized in Russia. To support and help young Russian talents, Kazarnovskaya, through her foundation, established special awards.
The opera singer also tried herself as an actress. In 1988, she starred in the role of Kira Danilova in the film “The Gypsy Baron.” In 2005, Kazarnovskaya appeared in two films at once: in the film “Anna,” viewers saw her in the role of singer Anna Romanova, the second film with her participation is called “Dark Instinct.” It is known that the film “Anna” was awarded the Grand Prix at the Gatchina Film Festival. The singer also voiced the evil sorceress Maleficent in the Russian dubbing of the Disney animated film “Sleeping Beauty.”
Music
Kazarnovskaya’s creative biography began during her student years. From 1981 to 1986, she was a soloist at the K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Academic Theater. The singer made her debut as Tatiana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin. For the next 3 years, Lyubov is a soloist at the State Academic Theater named after S. M. Kirov.
Published by Dmitry Tkachenko Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Vitas
Kazarnovskaya became famous at the All-Union Vocal Competition named after Mikhail Glinka: she received second prize. New titles and positions rained down on the singer as if from a cornucopia, one after another. First, Kazarnovskaya became a laureate of all-Union and international competitions, then a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize, chairman of the commission for cultural and humanitarian cooperation of municipalities of the Russian Federation, chairman of the board of the Russian Musical Educational Society, Doctor of Music, professor. And Lyubov Yuryevna is the founder of the Lyubov Kazarnovskaya Foundation to support the opera art of Russia.
Music critics say that the artist has an operatic voice with an interesting, unusual timbre. In some parts the singer is the only and unique one. Her favorite composers are Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninov.
Soon the singer’s repertoire expanded with the main roles in the operas “Iolanta” by P. Tchaikovsky, “May Night” by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, “Pagliacci” by R. Leoncavallo, “La Bohème” by D. Puccini. At the invitation of Yevgeny Svetlanov, she sang in performances of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater.
The opera prima donna gained worldwide recognition from her victory at the UNESCO Young Performers Competition in Bratislava in 1984. In the same year, for her performance of Leonora's aria from Verdi's opera La forza del destino, Kazarnovskaya was awarded the 3rd prize and an honorary diploma at the Miriam Hellin Competition in Helsinki. And in 1986, Lyubov Yuryevna became a laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize.
Nikolai Baskov and Lyubov Kazarnovskaya – The Fantom Of The Opera
In the same 1986, the singer received an invitation to the Mariinsky Theater and was its soloist for 3 years. During this time, she performed all the main soprano roles in the repertoire.
The prima's first foreign triumph took place in 1988 on the stage of London's Covent Garden Theater as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin.
The following year, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya received an invitation from the conductor - “maestro of the world” Herbert von Karajan to perform at the music festival in Salzburg. He was gone right at the rehearsal. And Lyubov performed Verdi’s “Requiem” in memory of von Karajan. The success was universally recognized, it was appreciated by the entire music world. And now the first stages of the world were at the feet of the Russian opera diva.
This brilliant performance marked the beginning of a dizzying career. Soon Lyubov Kazarnovskaya sang on the stage of Covent Garden, Metropoliten Opera, San Francisco Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Teatro Colon, Houston Grand Opera, as well as on the stage of the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters of Russia.
The creative biography of Lyubov Yuryevna includes more than a dozen roles in operas by Russian, Italian and German composers. The singer is active in concert work. She is especially fond of romances.
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Young Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Vladimir Chernov
The prima often presents her fans with pleasant surprises: sometimes she sings together with pop stars Philip Kirkorov and Anita Tsoi. With Nikolai Baskov, the artist performed a duet from the Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical “The Phantom Of The Opera” and “Ave Maria”, with Vitas - the compositions “Prayer” and Bésame Mucho, and in a duet with Kirkorov - the song Time to say Goodbye at his show dedicated to the 20th anniversary of his appearance on stage.
By the beginning of the 21st century, Kazarnovskaya rightfully became one of the most subtle interpreters of Russian music, especially romances, after the legendary Russian mezzo-soprano Irina Arkhipova. She is also the first singer to record all 103 of Pyotr Tchaikovsky's romances on CD. In 2014, Kazarnovskaya released an album of romances “Gypsy Love”.
The singer’s favorite musical work is “Carmen,” especially the famous “Habanera” (“Love has wings like a bird”). According to Lyubov Yurievna, this opera seems to have been written for her and about her. Now Kazarnovskaya’s plans are to sing “Medea” by composer Luigi Cherubini from the big stage.
In 2020, Lyubov Yuryevna became a guest of the International Music Festival in Malta. Together with the Harmony quartet, she performed famous arias from operas and operettas, as well as songs from the repertoire of the Beatles and Frank Sinatra.
Kazarnovskaya currently
The singer devotes a lot of time to classes with the drag queen Ursula. We are talking about a young performer from Ukraine – Artyom Semenov. The young man received a rare gift - he is one of the few people who possess both a male tenor and a completely unique female soprano.
In 2013, Lyubov Yuryevna, together with Gennady Khazanov, Alexander Revva and Lyudmila Artemyeva, joined the main jury of the One to One transformation show. In 2014, a similar show “Exactly the Same” appeared on Channel One, where Kazarnovskaya again became one of the jury members.
Childhood and school years
Lyuba was born on July 18, 1956 in Moscow. The Kazarnovsky family was intelligent and had nothing to do with music.
Lyuba’s dad, Yuri Ignatievich, a general, was engaged in military-diplomatic activities, and is the author of several military and historical books.
Mom, Lidia Alexandrovna, had a philological education and devoted her whole life to teaching the Russian language and literature.
Lyuba has an older sister, Natasha, who followed in her mother’s footsteps, became a philologist, and now lives in France, where she is teaching at the Sorbonne.
As a child, Lyuba grew up not only as a playful and mischievous girl, she was a real boy in a skirt. She was not attracted to dolls and girlish toys; she needed to run around with the boys, play tag or Cossack robbers.
She was known as a ringleader among the kids, and mother sometimes had to listen to neighbors about her daughter’s pranks.
As the singer says to herself, she was always an unconventional child, she twisted and twirled everyone. Once she persuaded a boy she knew to go with her and see the Berlin Wall; the children were taken off the freight train in time.
At school, Lyuba studied well, at the same time she studied figure skating, rhythmic gymnastics, and tried herself in ballet. At the same time, the girl began to develop a craving for music, she enrolled in a pop-jazz studio. The group turned out to be quite successful and often performed at festive events and evenings.
Personal life of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
In her memoirs, the singer always mentioned that at school she was always an ugly duckling, until in the seventh grade a change happened to her - yesterday’s ugly girl turned into a beauty, driving all her classmates crazy. In “Gnesinka” the girl was known as the first beauty; her classmates vying with each other offered her their hand and heart, but Lyubov, according to her, was too frivolous to take their youthful ardor seriously.
In 1989, the one and only one appeared in the life of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya - the Austrian Robert Roscik, an opera impresario. The man came to Moscow to select 12 opera voice holders for the Vienna Opera. Among the dozen talented lucky ones was Lyubov.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya met her future husband in 1989
Unexpectedly for the singer, Robert began calling her personally. They talked a lot, noted the striking similarity in views and interests. Lyubov believed that such an attitude towards employees was a common thing for a smiling foreigner, but when she finally arrived in Vienna, she realized that his interest in her went beyond the professional. After a long series of international flights, hours of telephone conversations and days spent together, the lovers decided to get married. The ceremony took place on April 21, 1989.
Photos from the wedding of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Robert Roscik
And in 1993, a son, Andrei, was born into the family. Having matured, the young man, like his parents, connected his life with music. He studied at the college at the conservatory, choosing the violin as his “native” instrument, and dreamed of becoming a famous symphony conductor.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya with her son Andrey
Personal life
In September 1989, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya met her future husband Robert Roscik, a representative of the Croatian family of aristocrats. Robert, an impresario from Vienna, came to Moscow to audition young singers, among whom was his future wife. Then the man was looking for performers to participate in the Salzburg Festival. In Austria, mutual sympathy between future spouses grew into a stronger feeling. The romance ended with a wedding.
The couple has been together for many years. The personal life of Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Robert Roscik is an example to follow and the subject of good envy. Later, the husband even changed jobs to avoid misunderstandings and for the sake of family well-being.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Robert Roscik at a press conference at the House of Journalists about the project in Italy
Published by Ljuba Kazarnovskaya Thursday, April 28, 2020
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya and Robert Rostsik
The couple's dreams of children came true in 1993: the couple had a son, Andrei, for whose birth the singer was ready to sacrifice her career. The fact is that childbirth could lead to a change in voice, which means the end of a career. The singer also realized that, having decided to give birth, she would have to terminate many contracts. The appearance of the baby did not affect her voice in any way: after 3 months the artist shone on stage.
Soon, family grief (the death of her mother) nevertheless undermined the singer’s health. Kazarnovskaya began having asthma attacks due to her worries, and she stopped singing. After a short break, her husband found her a herbalist, who healed her illness with decoctions. The artist began classes with the accompanist, after which she returned to form.
Lyubov Yuryevna’s personal life today is full and harmonious, because the singer has a strong and friendly family, where everyone loves and respects each other. Andrei Robertovich Rostsik followed in the footsteps of his parents and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in violin class. He dreams of becoming a symphony conductor.
The singer manages to maintain excellent physical shape. With a height of 168 cm, her weight does not exceed 57 kg. The artist calls self-discipline her secret. For many years, Lyubov regularly visits the gym and follows the diet of Maya Plisetskaya, who advised eating less to lose weight.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya in Malta
Published by Ljuba Kazarnovskaya Sunday, April 22, 2018
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya in Malta
Fans suspect that the reason for youthfulness is not only a healthy lifestyle, but also plastic surgery, but there is no evidence of this. After the birth of her son, Kazarnovskaya gained excess weight, but soon managed to regain her slim figure, losing 15 kg.
After my mother died in the early 90s, my father brought another woman into the apartment in which he lived with his wife for 46 years. It seems that the relationship with the stepmother of Lyubov Yuryevna and her sister did not work out right away.
In 2012, a scandal broke out, the details of which the singer’s fans learned from Andrei Malakhov’s program “Let Them Talk.” The stepmother, with the help of her father, wrote Lyubov Yuryevna and her son out of the apartment, which the woman found out about late, when the trial came to an end. Subpoenas were sent to Kazarnovskaya at her place of registration, but no one informed the singer about them.
Due to the plaintiff's failure to appear in court, court hearings were held without her. Stepmother Zoya Gromadskaya won the case and received housing at her disposal. Lyubov Kazarnovskaya refused to fight for the apartment, deciding that she needed strength for creativity, and not for grueling legal squabbles and proceedings. Later, the singer shared with fans the details of a family quarrel on the set of the provocative show “Secret to a Million.”
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Lyubov Kazarnovskaya with her husband and son
The official website operates on behalf of Kazarnovskaya; she does not maintain a profile on the social network Instagram. But fans are happy to post photos of their favorite on their pages, and even more often - videos of the singer performing musical works.
In 2020, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya became a guest on Yuri Nikolaev’s program “Honest Word,” where she openly spoke about relationships with her family. The singer shared her worries about her son’s personal life. Now the young man is dating a girl, but things are not moving towards a wedding yet. According to the artist, she is ready to become a good mother-in-law, but she does not trust the role of grandmother.
The singer owns real estate in Italy, Austria and Moscow, but most of all she loves to relax in a modest country house in the village of Vyatskoye, Yaroslavl region. In an interview, she admits that nature in this place has a healing effect on her: only in Vyatskoye can she rest her soul, feel peace and tranquility.
A television
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya has repeatedly emphasized that she considers herself a singing actress, so appearing on the silver screen was not alien to her. The first work in the singer’s filmography was the Soviet musical film “The Spanish Hour” to the music of Maurice Ravel, where Kazarnovskaya got the main role of the watchmaker’s wife. Another film of the year was the film adaptation of Johann Strauss’s operetta “The Gypsy Baron,” where Love again shone in the foreground.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya
The next time the artist appeared on screen was 17 years later in the Russian drama Anna, where she appeared in an image close to her own - an opera diva. The film was warmly received by film critics. In a similar role, Lyubov appeared in the detective thriller “Dark Instinct.” There she played together with Alexander Domogarov.
In the spring of 2013, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya turned out to be one of the four mentors of the 1st season of the show “One to One!” And in March 2014, the opera diva was invited to become a member of the jury of a new popular television project - the transformation show “Just the Same,” which was broadcast on Channel One. She developed warm relations with other jury members - Gennady Khazanov, Mikhail Boyarsky and Leonid Yarmolnik. Lyubov Yurievna claims that even in case of disagreements, they managed to maintain goodwill and friendship, because they all have a long creative biography behind them.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya in the thriller “Dark Instinct”
In May 2020, the singer became a member of the jury from Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest. At the same time, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya headed the board of trustees of the Academy of Festive Culture.
And in December 2020, Lyubov Yuryevna and the TV presenter of the “Exactly the Same” show, Alexander Oleshko, visited Ivan Urgant together on his program “Evening Urgant,” where they shared New Year’s plans and revealed the secrets of the final release of the project in which they are participating.
Lyubov Kazarnovskaya on the program “Evening Urgant”
In 2020, the opera diva, whose name is known throughout the world, celebrated her anniversary on the St. Petersburg stage. She presented fans with a brilliant program “Love Changes Everything” on the stage of the Great Concert Hall “Oktyabrsky”, where she performed accompanied by the Harmony ensemble.
In 2017, the singer delighted lovers of opera singing with concerts that took place in all major cities of the country and with another appearance in television shows.
