Eugenia Bronskaya

as Philine in "Mignon" by Thomas

Eugenia Bronskaya
1882-1953
Russian Soprano
She studied first with her mother in Russia and later with Teresa Arkel in Milan. After her début at Tbilisi in 1901 she sang for three years in Kiev and from 1905 to 1907 in Moscow. Returning to Italy she performed Tatyana in the Venice première of “Yevgeny Onegin” By Tchaikovsky . She toured widely including France , Italy, when she joined the Boston Opera Company in 1909, making her début there as Micaëla in “Carmen” by Bizet. Other roles included Marguerite de Valois in “Les Huguenots” Meyerbeer ,Gilda in “Rigoletto” Verdi , Lucia in “ Lucia di Lammermoor” Donizetti , and on her return to Russia in 1911 was engaged at the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theatres. From 1923 to 1950 she taught at the Leningrad Conservatory.