Larisa Avdeyeva

Larisa Ivanovna Avdeyeva or Avdeeva (; 21 June 192510 March 2013) was a Soviet and Russian mezzo-soprano, who starred with the Bolshoi Opera for thirty years. She was awarded the title of People’s Artist of the RSFSR in.

Biography Larisa Ivanovna Avdeyeva was born on 21 June 1925 in Moscow to a family of opera singers. Though surrounded by music and performing in a children's glee club from age eleven, Avdeyeva initially wanted to study architecture. After World War II, she entered college to study construction, but a year later changed over to music. She studied at the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre from 1945 to 1946, and the following year began working as a soloist at the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre of Moscow. Among the roles she performed were Olga in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, Varvara

In addition to her 30 years of live appearances with the Bolshoi, for four decades Avdeyeva recorded with the USSR State Symphony Orchestra, which was directed by her husband Yevgeny Svetlanov. She recorded Scriabin's Symphony No. 1 In E Major, Op. 26; in 1969, Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures & Symphony No. 2 in 1977; Tchaikovsky's "Onegin" in 1979; and Prokofiev's "Voina i mir" in 1983, among many other titles. and played the role of Marina in the 1954 film Boris Godunov, both directed by Vera Stroyeva. In 1964, she was awarded the People's Artist of the RSFSR.

Adveyeva died on 10 March 2013 in Moscow.