Oda Slobodskaya Magnificent Soprano of Imperial Russia

A tribute to ODA SLOBODSKAYA, the greatest Russian Soprano of the early and mid 20th century. She was born in Vilno and studied in the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Her teacher was the formidable Natalia Iretskaya, a pupil of Pauline Viardot Garcia. She was chosen by Fyodor Chaliapin to be Elisabetta in Don Carlos, opposite his King Philip, when he brought his opera Company to Paris and London in the 1920s.