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Maria Titarenko
Maria Sergeevna Titarenko (27 March 1917 – 26 September 2002) was an Azerbaijani Soviet opera singer of Ukrainian origin. She was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1961).[1] She is best known for voicing Gulchohra in the film "Arshin Mal Alan" (1945).[2] LifeMaria Titarenko was born on 27 March 1917 in Sevastopol, Russian Empire.[2] At the age of 3, she became an orphan after her father died and her mother remarried living her and five other children.[3] At the age of 14, Titarenko graduated from the seven-year school, where she studied the language of the Crimean Tatars.[4] After that, she graduated from a factory school and began to work at the factory.[5] Working at the factory Titarenko fulfilled 300% of the norm and nobody could break her record.[3] In 1936, Titarenko married the head of one of the factory shops, Nikolai Naida who was soon recruited to the Baku Shipyard.[3] Together with her husband, Titarenko came to Azerbaijan in 1937.[2] In February 1938, Titarenko was admitted to the Baku Musical College without exams.[5] During her study at the college, she separated with her first husband Nikolai Naida, who was recruited to work in Murmansk, and met a military pilot Vasily Koretsky, who soon went to the war and died.[2] Singing careerWhile working at the factory Titarenko participated in amateur performances, singing Oksana in the opera by the Ukrainian composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky “Zaporozhets beyond the Danube”.[2] She won three times in city amateur competitions in Sevastopol and in the All-Crimean Amateur Olympiad in Simferopol.[5] After graduating from Baku Musical College in 1942, Titarenko was transferred to study at the conservatory.[3] In 1943, Titarenko became a soloist of the Baku Opera House.[5] She appeared on the stage of the Baku Opera House in the role of Nigar.[2] In 1945, Titarenko voiced Gulchohra performed by Leyla Badirbeyli in the film "Arshin Mal Alan".[6] In the 1950s and 1960s Titarenko became the prima of the Baku opera scene.[3] During her 25 years of stage work she sang 36 leading roles, including Nigar, Tatiana, Iolanta, Mikaela and Snegurochka.[2] She performed six roles in Azerbaijani language.[1] In 1961, Titarenko was awarded a title of an Honored Astist of Azerbaijan SSR.[2] She left the stage in 1969, but her voice of the prima remained until the age of 84 when she still performed a part in the opera Vagif.[2] Maria Titarenko died on 26 September at the age of 85 in Baku, and was buried in Baku.[2] References
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