Maria Kurenko

Maria Kurenko
1890-1980
Russian Soprano

She studied singing at the Moscow Conservatory with Umberto Masetti. In 1914 debut at the Kharkov Opera House as Antonida in ‘’The life for the Tsar’’. Later she sang at the S. Zimin’s Opera House in Moscow. From 1918 to 1922 she was a soloist of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, from 1922 to 1923 she performed at the National Opera of Ukraine, Kiev. She made guest appearances in Nijni Novgorod (1917), Saratov (1923), Latvian National Opera (1924-1926). Since 1926 she performed in Latvia, Poland, Czech, Germany and France. Appeared at the opera houses of USA (Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston).