Nina Lvovna Dorliak was a Russian soprano and a voice teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.
13 Facts About Nina Dorliak
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Nina Dorliak is known for forming a duo with pianist Sviatoslav Richter in recitals and recordings.
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Nina Dorliak's mother was Xenia Nikolayevna Dorliak, a maid of honour of Empress Marie Feodorovna, and later a singer and voice teacher at the Moscow Conservatory.
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Nina Dorliak's father was the financier Lev Fabianovitch Dorliak, whose father had emigrated from France to Russia during the reign of Alexander II of Russia.
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Nina Dorliak attended the Petrischule, a German school in Saint Petersburg.
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Nina Dorliak's career began in 1935 as a recitalist of art songs, accompanied by pianists such as Konstantin Igumnov, Alexander Goldenweiser, Maria Yudina, and Maria Grinberg.
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Nina Dorliak gave many concerts in Russia and abroad, mainly in the art song repertoire, with a focus on Italian composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti, French composers such as Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Francis Poulenc, and Russian composers such as Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff.
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Nina Dorliak was the first performer of several works by Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitri Shostakovich.
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In 1943, Nina Dorliak met Sviatoslav Richter who was already a renowned pianist.
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Nina Dorliak accompanied Richter on tours throughout his career for more than fifty years, supporting him until his last illness.
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Nina Dorliak died soon afterwards on 17 May 1998 at the age of 89.
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Nina Dorliak's funeral took place in Moscow, after a last homage in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
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Nina Dorliak's legacy includes numerous recordings, some of them as a duo with Richter, with a repertoire that includes Schumann, Prokofiev, and Mussorgsky.