Elena Nikolaidi

Elena Nikolaidi (Greek: Έλενα Νικολαΐδη; June 15, 1909 – November 14, 2002) was a Greek-American opera singer and teacher. She sang leading contralto and mezzosoprano roles with major opera companies worldwide and made numerous recordings.

An ba da shekarar haihuwarta a matsayin 1906 a wasu tushe.

 Rayuwa ta farko da nazarin kiɗa 
An haifi Elena Nikolaidi a Smyrna, Daular Ottoman, (wanda yanzu shine İzmir, Turkiyya. A shekara ta 1922, bayan mamaye Turkiyya a Smyrna, ta koma tare da iyalinta zuwa GirGirka yi karatun murya a kan tallafin karatu a Athens Conservatoire a karkashin Thanos Mellos . Ta fara fitowa tare da ƙungiyar mawaƙa a Athens a cikin wasan kwaikwayon da DimDimitris Mitropoulos gudanar. FarFarko na farko ya kasance a farkon The Ghost Bridge na Theophrastos Sakellaridis .

Nikolaidi ta auri Mellos, malaminta na murya, a 1936. Koyaya, za ta riƙe "Elena Nikolaidi" a matsayin sunanta na sana'a.

 Ayyuka 
A cikin 1936, Nikolaidi ya yi tafiya zuwa Vienna don yin gasa a gasar murya ta Belvedere . Ta kasance ta huɗu amma ta sami sauraro na biyu tare da babban mai gudanarwa Bruno Walter, wanda ya haifar da jefa ta a matsayin Gimbiya Eboli, babban matsayi, a cikin wasan kwaikwayo na Verdi Don Carlos tare da Vienna State Opera a ranar 16 ga Disamba, 1936.

A shekara ta 1948, Nikolaidi ta tafi Amurka tare da mijinta da ɗansu, Michael . Ta yi wasan kwaikwayo na farko na Town Hall a Birnin New York a watan Janairun 1949. Kashegari da safe, Jerome D. Bohm na New York Herald Tribune ya rubuta: "A cikin shekaru 20 na sake dubawa na kiɗa kuma a cikin sau biyu wannan adadin da aka kashe wajen sauraron mafi yawan mawaƙa mafi kyau a duniya, ban haɗu da babbar murya ko murya ba"; mai sukar New York Times ya rubuta game da "rashin fahimta".

Ta fara wasan kwaikwayo na Amurka a matsayin Amneris a cikin Verdi's Aida tare da San Francisco Opera kuma ta sake taka rawar da ta fara a Metropolitan Opera a 1951 tare da George London. A farkon shekarun 1960 ta yi ritaya daga wasan kwaikwayo amma ta ci gaba da yin kide-kide sosai na shekaru da yawa.

 Ayyukan koyarwa 
In 1960, Nikolaidi accepted a position on the voice faculty of Florida State University in Tallahassee. In 1977, she went to Houston, Texas, as the primary voice instructor for the newly established Houston Opera Studio, a young-artist training program that was at that time a joint venture of Houston Grand Opera and the University of Houston; she also instructed a select few university students who were not in the HOS program. [<span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span>]

Daliban Nikolaidi sun hada da Linda Zoghby, Bruce Fowler, Erie Mills, Glay Posch, da Jan Grissom . 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2002
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1909
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