Maria died Opera Prima Bieshu

People's Artist of the USSR died Moldovan Opera Prima Bieshu Maria on Wednesday morning, a 77-year life after a long serious illness, said senior officials of the Union of Musicians Moldova. Winner of the State Prize of the USSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, the best performance in the world of Madame Butterfly Party, Maria Bieshu born 3 August 1935 in the village of Stefan Voda Volontirovka. In 1955, the future singer was deemed to satisfy the Kishinev Conservatory, graduating in 1961, then. An invitation to the Moldavian National Opera and Ballet The theater Bieshu debuted in 1962 in the opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini. Trained from 1965 to 1967, the young singer at La Scala. During this time she was the winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition and wins at the International Vocal Competition in Japan and won the title "Best Cio-Cio-San's world." Bieshu performed at opera houses in the USSR, USA, Czech Republic, Germany, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Austria, Japan, Australia, Cuba, Israel and Brazil. Gave her repertoire about three dozen operatic roles in operas like "Tosca" and "Madame Butterfly" by Puccini, "Eugene Onegin" and "Queen of Spades" by Tchaikovsky, "Othello" and "Il Trovatore" by Verdi, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo "Aleko" Rachmaninoff's "Norma" Bellini ", Sergei Lazo" Gershfelda, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni, "Viva Maestro" by Donizetti, "Adrienne Lecouvreur" Cilea and many others. Almost every year in Chisinau under the auspices of the prima donna, an international festival of opera and ballet is "Maria Biesu." Maria Bieshu founded and for 30 years was the undisputed leader of the Union of Musicians Moldova. The funeral of the famous opera singer held on Saturday at the Central Cemetery in Chisinau, where she will be buried next to the grave of her mother. RIA Novosti