Xenia Belmas

Photo taken during the recording of the Sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" on 10 October 1963: Alphonso Lee; Xenia Belmas; Rose Barnett; George van Wyngaard; Walter Heinen & Louis Kearney

Xenia Alexandrovna Belmas (Russian: Ксения Александровна Бельмас; c. 23 January 1890[note 1] – 2 February 1981) was a Ukrainian soprano,[2][3] born in Chernihiv, Ukraine.[4] She was married to Ukrainian conductor Alexander Kitschin.[2][5] Once the doyenne of the Paris Opera Company, she was also a recording star with more than 80 records to her credit.[6]

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  2. ^ a b "Xenia Belmas (1890-1981) - I". Gramophone. Mark Allen Group. 1992. Retrieved 2016-05-16.
  3. ^ Accattoli, Agnese. "Ksenija Aleksandrovna Bel'mas". Russi in Italia. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  4. ^ "Belmas Xenia". Cantatrices de l’opera de Paris. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Xenia Belmas, Alexander Kitschin from Kyiv (Polydor, 1927)". Retrieved 17 January 2017.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Daily News 01/06/71 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).


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