Singer Levko Biography

Father-Surkov Nikolai Nikolaevich-worked as a metallurgist engineer.

Mother-Surkova Varvara Ivanovna-spouse-Levko Vladimir Iosifovich-, a fighter-fighter-a test pilot-a test pilot. Daughter - Lyubov G. Music Valentina began to study from 8 years in the violin class. I started singing from the age of 12. Vocaly studied listening to the Russian song, an old romance. During the war, he was with his family in evacuation in the city of Pavlovo-on-Ok of the Gorky region.

The dream of studying singing did not leave her, and she used any opportunity to familiarize with vocal art, although she studied at a music school in a violin class. In the year, she passed entrance exams at the Music School at the Moscow Conservatory in the Violin class. The time was military, and material circumstances did not allow her to engage only in studying. The search for work in the orchestra began, but all violins were required everywhere.

At this time, Professor V. Borisovsky and his assistant A. Bagintsev opened the Alta class at the Gnesins music school. Having made a good impression on the members of the commission, Valentine again became a freshman and soon found a job in the orchestra of the Miniature Theater, then in the Ermolova Theater Orchestra. In the year, at the end of the Gnesins school, she entered the orchestra faculty of the Gnesins Music and Pedagogical Institute and received excellent musical training in 5 years, which became the basis for the development of her vote, since she did not stop vocals.

In the year, having successfully passed state exams, Valentina Levko received the qualifications of the artist of the orchestra and teacher in the Alta class. However, she connected her life and creative path with a singing career. The second diploma-the opera and concert-camera singer-she received at the Moscow Conservatory in the year, already being a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater.

In the year, a competition was adopted at the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Her debut took place on November 6 in the party Helen Bezukhova in the opera “War and Peace” by S. on the stage of this theater V. Levko performed several parties, including Duengo in the opera of the same name S. Prokofieva, Ustino in the opera of M.

Koval “Emelian Pugachev”, Chipra in Opeetta I. Strauss “Gypsy Baron”, etc. At the same time, its concert activity began both in the country and abroad. In December, at the invitation of S. Lemeshev, at that time the deputy director of the Bolshoi Theater, Valentina Levko debuted in the party of Ratmir in the opera Ruslan and Lyudmila M. Dyrianted A. Debut with great success, and in the year she was enrolled in the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater.

Mussorgsky, Lyubasha in the “Tsar’s bride” by N. Glinka, Konchakovna in “Prince Igor” A. Borodin, Princess in the “Rusalka” by A. Dargomyzhsky, Kuikli in “Falstafa” by J. Verdi and others. In the work on these parties, Maksakov helped her, thanks to the concerns of which Valentina Levko comprehended the traditions of the Russian opera scene. Valentina Levko participated in almost all the tour of the Bolshoi Theater in the country and abroad of the USA, Canada, Japan, France, Italy, including in the first tour abroad in the Milan Theater "La Scala", where Konchakovna was performed in the opera Prince Igor A.

Brodin, none of the opera “Sadko” by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, Akhrosimova in the opera “War and Peace” by S. Prokofiev, Countess in the Opera “Peak Lady” by P. for tour in Milan, the Bolshoi Theater prepared a new production of the Pig Ladies' opera under the leadership of B. Pokrovsky and A. Melik-Pashayev Spee. The new reading of the image of the countess in this production caused an enthusiastic reaction of the public and criticism.

She is an amazing singer and a magnificent actress. ” Since the year, V. Levko has been engaged in vocal pedagogy at the Gnesins Institute in parallel with work in the theater. In the year, 25 years of work by V. Levko were on the opera stage. Shortly before leaving the stage, she sang another new party for herself - grannies in S. Prokofiev’s opera “player”. Leaving the theater and having a huge repertoire, V.

Levko continued to engage in concert activities, which she always attached great importance. With solo concerts, she traveled the whole country from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka, sang on concert pops in more than 20 foreign countries in Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. Over the years, she took part in the international cycle of “Masters of Vocal Art” in Yugoslavia, the Cycles of Concerts “The Beautiful Voices of the World in the Chamber Subscription” in West Berlin, in the charity gala concert under the patronage of the Prince of Wales in London, in concerts dedicated to the work of S.

Prokofiev in Vienna. After concerts in Vienna, the Austrian newspaper Express wrote: “Valentina Levko is a beautiful singer. Her freely, beautifully sounding velvet voice pours noble and cleanly, and she sings as the great singers sing. ” The newspaper Frehaite noted: “The artist’s talent manifested itself in such a warmth of feelings, juiciness and fullness of the voice, which allows Levko to talk about a vocal phenomenon.”She often accepted invitations to sing altov parties in the details of V.

Mozart and D. Verdi, the 9th Symphony of Beethoven and the 3rd city of Malera, in the oratorios and cantatas of I. Bach, G. Gendel, S. Prokofiev, D. Kabalevsky, O. Feltzman, R. Manukova, the Khorov Concert? She performed with orchestras under the control of K. Kondrashina, D. Kitaenko, G. Rozhdestvensky, Yu. Temirkanova, E. Svetlanova, N. Rakhlin, K.

Mazur, T. Shippers, Yu. Domarkas, N. Yarvi, with pleasure sang, accompanied by an orchestra of Russian folk instruments, when masters such as V. Gnutov, I. Dubrovsky, P. Kalinin, S. Kolobkov, N. Nekrasov, V. Fedoseev, and with the pop-symphonic orchestra of Yu. For many years V. Levko worked with the wonderful musician and accompanist G. Zinger, as well as with D.

Lerner, Yu. Selivokhina, G. Fedorenko, Bach Party Alta, Requiem of the Poems of R. Rozhdestvensky and the vocal cycle to the verses of R. Gamzatov, D. Kabalevsky, vocal Cycles V.