April 10 , 1985
Russian singer and actress (born 1940)
Elena Antonovna Kamburova (Russian : Елена Антоновна Камбурова ; born July 11, 1940) is a Russian singer and actress. In addition to numerous solo albums, her voice is recorded in more than a hundred film soundtracks. She is a People's Artist of Russian Federation .
Born in Stalinsk , she was brought up in Ukraine where her family relocated. In 1967, she graduated from the State College of Circus and Variety Art (Государственное училище циркового и эстрадного искусства), and in 1979 from GITIS .
In the 1960s, Kamburova participated in concerts and radio recordings. She performed songs by Novella Matveyeva and Bulat Okudzhava . Okudzhava once noted that her art is "a lucky combination of voice, intellect, and talent."[1] . From mid-1970s, compositions of Vladimir Dashkevich made up a significant part of her repertoire, based on the lyrics by Vladimir Mayakovsky , Alexander Blok and (unfavorable with the Soviet authorities) Marina Tsvetayeva , Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam .
In 1992, Kamburova founded The Moscow Theater of Music and Poetry , where she acts as the director, a performer and an actress.
Discography
LPs
Прощай, оружие (A Farewell to Arms - on motives of Ernest Hemingway , 1970)
Поет Елена Камбурова (Elena Kamburova Sings , 1975)
Сказки об Италии (Tales about Italy , 1981)
Послушайте (Listen , 1982)
Да осенит тишина (Let There Be Silence , 1987)
CDs
Дрёма (Dream - Russian lullabies, 1997)
Капли Датского короля (The Mixture of Danish King , 1999)
Волшебная скрипка (The Magic Violin , 1999)
Синий троллейбус (Blue Trolleybus - songs by Bulat Okudzhava, 1999)
Дорога (The Road , 2000)
Любовь и разлука (Love and Separation , 2001)
Песни из кинофильмов - 1 (Songs from Films - part 1 , 2001)
Песни из кинофильмов – 2 (Songs from Films - part 2 , 2001)
Романс о жизни и смерти (Romance of Life and Death , 2004)
Воспоминание о шарманке (A Recollection about the Barrel-Organ - songs by Larissa Kritskaya , 2007)
Реквием (Requiem of Anna Akhmatova, music by Vladimir Dashkevich, live , 2007)
Концерт в театре "Школа современной пьесы" (Live in the School of Modern Play Theater , 2008)
Концерт в театре Музыки и Поэзии (Live in the Theater of Music and Poetry , 2008, DVD)
Films
External links
In Russian
International National Artists