Р. Радина-Фигнеръ

Renée Radina-Figner - (married Figner; 1872, Nikolaev, Kherson province, Russian Empire - August 17, 1944, Vienna, Ostmark, Greater German Reich) - Russian opera singer, soprano. The third wife of opera singer Nikolai Nikolaevich Figner = Николай Фигнер. Born into a Jewish family. Brother - Yakov Efimovich Radin (1878, Nikolaev - 1942, Leningrad). Since childhood, my parents taught me to play the piano in music classes. Possessing vocal abilities, from 1893 she took singing lessons from the Italian vocal teacher Rocchigiani and a year later she successfully performed in concerts. In one of the concerts, her partner was opera singer M.E. Medvedev. In 1895 she entered the Moscow Conservatory (singing class of E. Lavrovskaya), then continued her studies at the Vienna Conservatory (class of professors Jager-Wildchik and Shtoll). In 1896 she sang in “Pskovianka” (Moscow private Russian opera by S.I. Mamontov). Since 1898 she performed in concerts in Vienna and in German cities. Later she made a successful debut on the stage of the Cologne Opera House, performing the roles of Santuzza (La Rural Honor by P. Mascagni), Leonora (Il Trovatore by G. Verdi), Aida (Aida by G. Verdi), Valentina (Les Huguenots by G. Meyerbeer), Eurydice (“Orpheus and Eurydice” by K.V. Gluck), Elsa (“Lohengrin” by R. Wagner). In 1899, having returned to Russia, she was invited to the Kharkov Opera Company (entrepreneur A. A. Tsereteli), with which she toured in St. Petersburg (Panaevsky Theater, 1900), Odessa, and Yekaterinburg. Later she sang in Tiflis (1900-04), St. Petersburg (New Summer Theater; Russian Opera, enterprise of E. Kabanov and K. Yakovlev, 1903; People's House Opera, 1903), Kazan (1904, 1908), N. Novgorod (1904, 1905, enterprise of N. N. Figner), Baku, Riga, Rostov-on-Don (1907), Samara (October 1909, as part of the touring Russian Opera under the direction of V. M. Miller, where she performed as Lisa in “The Queen of Spades” by P. Tchaikovsky, her partner was N. N. Figner). In 1905, she left the opera stage and limited herself to concert activities. The singer's chamber repertoire included works by R. Schumann, C. Gounod, E. Grieg, N. G. Rubinstein. Since 1929 she lived in Vienna (Austria).