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Nina Koshetz ((ロシア語:Нина Павловна Кошиц); née Poray-Koshetz (:ru:Порай-Кошиц); 30 December 1891 – 14 May 1965) was a Russian-Ukrainian, later American opera soprano, recital singer and actress. ==Early life and career== Nina Koshetz was born in Kiev, then moved to Moscow and became an opera singer. Her father, opera singer Pavel Koshetz (ru: Павел Алексеевич Кошиц; 1863 - 2 March 1904), committed suicide in 1904, when Nina was 12 years old. From 1908–13 she studied in Moscow State Conservatory with Konstantin Igumnov and Sergei Taneyev, among others.〔(Aron Proujanski. Мoscow. Native singer. 1750—1917: Dictionary—Pub. 2nd —М., 2008 ) 〕 Having received voice lessons in France from the retired dramatic soprano Felia Litvinne, she sang leading roles in opera and performed in principal opera houses across Russia and Europe. In the late 1910s she performed at the Petrograd Conservatory and was accompanied by then-unknown Vladimir Horowitz. She had initially resisted being accompanied by the unknown student, but afterward insisted only he could accompany her there; she subsequently programmed some of Horowitz's songs. In 1920 Koshetz joined Ukrainian Republic Capella co-founded and lead by her uncle Oleksandr Koshyts on their European Tour. After which she emigrated to the US and joined the Chicago Opera Association where she sang in the premiere of Prokofiev's ''The Love for Three Oranges'' (1921). Nina Koshetz later performed for the Russian Opera Company in New York and on tour in South America. At the end of the 1920s she was active in France, where she appeared in the French premiere of Sadko. Known for her overly-extravagant life style, her vocal powers declined in the 1930s and in 1940 she retired to Hollywood where she made a living as a voice teacher and restaurateur (a venture that ended in bankruptcy in 1942). She appeared in bit parts in several Hollywood movies. She died in Santa Ana, California in 1965. Nina's daughter Marina Koshetz (also known as Marina Schubert; 1912–2001) was an operatic soprano who sang with the San Francisco Opera as well as the Metropolitan Opera of New York. Marina Koshetz sang in films and wrote a biography about her mother as well as a screenplay about her mother's affair with Rachmaninoff, both titled ''The Last Love Song''.〔(Short biography of Marina Koshetz ) by Hans J. Wollstein, AllMovie.com, accessed 3 December 2008.〕〔(Marina Koshetz obituary ), ''Los Angeles Times'', accessed 3 December 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nina Koshetz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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