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Vladimir Sergeyevich Rosing ((ロシア語:Владимир Серге́евич Розинг)) (November 24, 1963), aka Val Rosing, was a Russian-born operatic tenor and stage director who spent most of his professional career in England and the United States. In his formative years he experienced the last years of the "golden age" of opera, and he dedicated himself through his singing and directing into breathing new life into opera's outworn mannerisms and methods. Rosing was considered by many to rank as a singer and performer of the quality of Feodor Chaliapin.〔"Chaliapin and Rosing Typify Russian Music", ''Christian Science Monitor'', April 1, 1922. pg. 16.〕 In ''The Perfect Wagnerite'', George Bernard Shaw called Chaliapin and Vladimir Rosing "the two most extraordinary singers of the 20th century."〔Shaw, George Bernard. ''The Perfect Wagnerite, 4th Edition.'', p. 132, London: Constable & Co. (1923).〕 Vladimir Rosing's best known recordings are his performances of Russian art songs by composers such as Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Tcherepnin, Alexander Gretchaninov, Alexander Borodin and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He was the first singer to record a song by Igor Stravinsky: ''Akahito'' from ''Three Japanese Songs''.〔Hogarth, Basil. "Igor Stravinsky: The Stormy Petrel of Music". ''The Gramophone'', June 1935. pg. 7.〕 As a stage director, Rosing championed opera in English, and he attempted to build permanent national opera companies in the United States and England. He directed opera performances "with such acumen and freshness of approach that some writers were tempted to speak of him as a ''second Reinhardt''."〔Ewen, David. ''Living Musicians'', pg. 301., New York: H. W. Wilson Co. (1940)〕 Rosing created his own system of stage movement and acting for singers. It proved very effective in his own productions and he taught it to a new generation of performers.〔Rosing, Ruth Glean. "Val Rosing's Technique of Acting for Singers", ''The New York Opera Newsletter'', pg. 7. May 1995.〕 == Early life == Rosing was born into an aristocratic family in St. Petersburg, Russia, on January 23, 1890. His father was descended from a Swedish officer captured by Russian forces at the Battle of Poltava. His mother was the granddaughter of a Baltic Baron.〔Rosing, Ruth Glean. ''Val Rosing: Musical Genius''. pg. 8, Manhattan: Sunflower University Press (1993).〕 Rosing's parents separated when he was three, and his mother took Vladimir and his two older sisters to live in Switzerland. After four years they returned to Russia to live in Moscow near Rosing's godfather, General Arkady Stolypin, who was Commandant of the Kremlin and father of Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin. For a time they lived in the Poteshny Palace at the Kremlin as General Stolypin's guests.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 10-14.〕 Rosing spent the summer of 1898 on his godfather's country estate south of Moscow near Tula. He traveled with his mother to meet Leo Tolstoy as his nearby estate, Yasnaya Polyana. At Tolstoy's request, Rosing's mother carried a message meant for the Tsar to General Stolypin, who later declined to deliver it.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 14-16.〕〔Ascher, Abraham. ''P. A. Stolypin: The Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia'', pg. 13-14. Stanford; Stanford University Press (2001)〕 When Tsar Nicholas II visited Moscow, Vladimir and his family attended a performance of Tchaikovsky's opera ''Eugene Onegin'', with the baritone Mattia Battistini, at the Bolshoi Theatre. They sat in General Stolypin's box just a few feet away from the Royal Box occupied by the Tsar and his family.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 20-21.〕 Rosing's parents reconciled the next year, and the family moved back to St. Petersburg. Rosing completed his studies at the Gymnasium (school) which lasted for eight years in Russia, and the family spent summers on their country estate in Podolia, Ukraine.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 22-25.〕 Russia was one of the biggest early markets for recorded music. Rosing's father brought home a gramophone in 1901, and Vladimir began to listen to and imitate the great singers of the day. He learned a repertoire of songs and arias, singing baritone as well as tenor parts.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 26-27.〕 His real desire was to be a bass and sing Boito's ''Mefistofele''.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 34.〕 In 1905, Rosing witnessed the massacre in front of the Winter Palace on Bloody Sunday. He then ceased being a monarchist and allied himself with the Constitutional Democratic Party. To please his father, a successful lawyer, Rosing reluctantly studied law at Saint Petersburg University, where he was very active in the fiery student politics that followed the first Russian Revolution of 1905. He sparred in heated debates with future Bolshevik commissar Nikolai Krylenko. He acted as a student deputy to the Saint Petersburg Soviet where he heard speeches by Leon Trotsky and others. Rosing soon developed a lifelong animosity towards the Bolsheviks.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 37-40.〕 Aside from politics, he focused on music and theatre. When his parents finally accepted the primacy of his musical interests, he began to study voice with Mariya Slavina, Alexandra Kartseva, and Joachim Tartakov.〔Juynboll, Floris. "Vladimir Rosing", ''The Record Collector'', Vol. 36 No. 3, July, August, September 1991. pg. 187〕 In 1908 Rosing fell in love with an English musician, Marie Falle, whom he met while on holiday in Switzerland.〔''Val Rosing'' pg. 46.〕 They married in London in February 1909. He studied voice in London with Sir George Power, before returning to Russia to finish law school. 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「Vladimir Rosing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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