Olga Vladimirovna Sinitsyna is known mainly to the older generation of vocal classical music lovers. The singer's creativity flourished in the 1970s-80s, when she shone on the stages of many cities of the USSR, delighting listeners with her charming lyric-coloratura soprano.
Biography facts
The facts of the biography of Olga Vladimirovna Sinitsyna are so scattered and stingy that it is impossible to build a holistic picture of her childhood and youth. Perhaps the singer does not share information about herself for personal reasons. According to separate information, it was possible to establish that Sinitsyna was born on November 6, 1940, her maiden name was Komissarova. Olga's teenage years were spent in the Far East. It is known that after leaving school she entered the Far Eastern Polytechnic Institute (DVPI) named after V. V. Kuibyshev in Vladivostok.
What specialty the girl chose and in what year she graduated from this university - there is no information. However, the fact is that during this period she was fond of volleyball and was part of the women's volleyball team of the DVPI. This information dates back to 1961.
And then begins a period of absolute uncertainty about what happened in the fate of Olga Vladimirovna. Firstly, her surname changed, and instead of Olga Komissarova she became Olga Sinitsina; secondly, she had a daughter, also Olga Sinitsyna. It can be assumed that in the region of 1961 Olga Vladimirovna got married, but there is no information about this at all. Nevertheless, the surname "Sinitsyna" remained with her for the rest of her life, and it was with her that the future singer came to fame.
Musical career
Again, there is no information about when and why there was a sharp turn in Olga Sinitsyna's biography: she decided to become a singer and left to study in Leningrad. Sinitsyn received her higher musical education at the Leningrad State Conservatory named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, studied vocal with Professor Taisiya Andreevna Dokukina; the chamber singing class was conducted by the teacher T. S. Saltykov.
After graduating from the conservatory, Sinitsina's musical career took off sharply. Olga Vladimirovna began giving concerts in different cities of Siberia and the Far East, sang accompanied by various orchestras, including the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra, orchestras conducted by famous conductors - Mikhail Benyumov, Alexander Rivkin, Anatoly Bardin, collaborated with organists Lyudmila Kamelina and Alexander Gorin …
Having become an employee of the Rosconcert and Soyuzkontsert organizations, Sinitsyna went on tour to the cities of the Far East region and Siberia, as well as the republics of the Soviet Union: Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. In 1981 Olga Sinitsyna was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In 1987, the Krasnoyarsk State Philharmonic invited the singer to the position of soloist, and in the same year she became the People's Artist of the RSFSR. Sinitsyna toured the entire Krasnoyarsk Territory - Norilsk, Dikson, Achinsk, Abakan, Nazarovo, Shushenskoye, etc.
Olga Sinitsyna's creativity
Olga Sinitsyna's remarkable timbre lyric and coloratura soprano allowed her to perform works of various genres and styles. Her repertoire included many classical Russian romances, folk songs of different nations, old Italian vocal music, works by 20th century composers, including A. Onegger, I. Stravinsky, arias from operas by Russian and foreign composers. In 1983, Olga Sinitsyna's creative collaboration with the Latvian organist Olgerts Tsintinsh began, with whom the singer gave concerts in organ halls in many cities of the USSR. Sinitsyna performed a lot of works by her husband, composer Vladimir Porotsky.
Olga Vladimirovna also recorded at the recording studio: in 1985 the Melodiya company released a disc with recordings of Russian romances sung by Sinitsyna in the concert hall of the Leningrad Capella. And in 1990 the disc "Sonnets of Dark Love" was released, on which the singer performed the work of her husband V. Porotsky "Six Sonnets by Federico Garcia Lorca" for soprano, violin and piano.
A year later, the Sverdlovsk Film Studio (Krasnoyarsk branch) shot a two-part film "Olga Sinitsyna Sings", where a variety of works were performed by the singer.
Pedagogical activity
It is known that Olga Sinitsyna lived for some time in Vladivostok, where she taught vocals at the Far Eastern Institute of Arts. And in 1997, when Sinitsyna had already moved with her husband to Moscow, the rector of the Moscow State Institute of Music (MGIM) named after A. Schnittke, Alexander Leontyevich Degtyarev, invited Olga Vladimirovna to the university for the position of a teacher.
Personal life
During her life and work in Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok, Olga Vladimirovna Sinitsyna married the composer Vladimir Porotsky. Vladimir Yakovlevich Porotsky was born in 1944, studied at the Novosibirsk and then at the Gorky State Conservatory. He held the positions of artistic director of such concert organizations as the Amur, Primorsk, Krasnoyarsk state philharmonic societies, taught at art institutes in Krasnoyarsk and Vladivostok (in the same place as Sinitsyna), headed the branch of the Union of Composers "Siberia - the Far East". Since 1980, Porotsky became a member of the Union of Composers of the USSR, was elected Secretary of the Board.
In marriage, the spouses Sinitsyna and Porotsky had a daughter, Vladlena Porotskaya, who later became a pianist and organist. Today the whole family lives in Germany, in the city of Mainz.
Vladlena became the wife of Eugene Schleger, they had two sons - the grandchildren of Sinitsyna and Porotsky: Heinrich and David-Yakob.
Olga Sinitsyna's eldest daughter, her namesake Olga Sinitsyna lives in the USA.
