Portrait Of The Soprano Lydia Lipkowska Oil Painting On Canvas By Léonie Michaud 20th Century

Portrait of the soprano Lydia Lipkowska with a kokoshnik and white lilies
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, dated 1928
135 x 91 cm
148 x 105 cm with its frame
Provenance: public auction by Me Ducellier, auctioneer in Pithiviers Boiscommun (45), around 2010/2012
Lydia Lipkowska was born in 1882 in Babyn (Bessarabia, Russian Empire) and died in 1958 in Beirut.
Opera and lieder singer (soprano) and singing teacher. After debuts at the Mariinsky Theatre (1906 to 1908) and the Bolshoi Theatre (1908), she received an invitation to participate in the tours of the Ballets Russes, directed by Sergei Diaghilev, in Paris in 1909 with Fyodor Chaliapin as her stage partner. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera of New York from 1909 to 1911 (La Traviata, on November 18, 1909 with Caruso) and then sang as a guest artist with the Boston Opera Company in 1909 and the Chicago Grand Opera Company in 1910. Lydia Lipkowska married in Paris in 1919 with cavalry lieutenant Pierre Bodin of the French Army of the Orient. She took part in performances of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes again in 1920. In Paris in 1927, she performed the role of Marfa in Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Tsar's Bride at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. After numerous tours and appearances in operas throughout Europe and elsewhere, she moved to Paris in 1950 to be closer to her daughter, then in 1953 accepted the directorship of the Beirut Conservatory. For part of her life, she was married to the baritone Georges Baklanoff.
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