Tatyana Shmyga
Illustration — Shmyga in 2006 Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga (31 December 1928 – 3 February 2011) was a Soviet and Russian operetta/musical theatre performer. She went on to act in films as well. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1978).
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Tatyana Shmyga
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- Full name
- Татьяна Ивановна Шмыга.
- Born
- 1928. · Moscow.
- Died
- 2011. · Moscow.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union and Russia.
- Occupation
- actress and opera singer.
- Fields
- operetta.
- Education
- Russian Institute of Theatre Arts.
- Honours
- People's Artist of the USSR, Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 3rd class, Order For Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class, Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Badge of Honour and Medal Veteran of Labour.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Illustration — Shmyga in 2006 Tatyana Ivanovna Shmyga (31 December 1928 – 3 February 2011) was a Soviet and Russian operetta/musical theatre performer. She went on to act in films as well. She was a People's Artist of the USSR (1978).
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She was married three times: • television journalist Rudolf Borecki • musical director Vladimir Kandelaki • composer Anatoly Kremer
Death
Death
Shmyga died in Moscow, aged 82, from vascular disease.
Татьяна Шмыга на открытии фестиваля "Музыкальное сердце театра", 2006
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Moscow-born Shmyga graduated from the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts, where she studied voice under Dora Borisovna Beliavskaia and acting under Joseph Mikhailovich Tumanov, later becoming a soloist with the Moscow Operetta Theater the same year. She began acting in films in 1962, notably appearing in Eldar Ryazanov's The Hussar Ballad.
Tatyana Shmyga studied at Russian Institute of Theatre Arts. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are operetta. Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of the USSR, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class, Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.
Shmyga remains the only musical theatre actress to date to receive the title of People's Artist of the USSR. She also received the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR in 1974, the Order of the Badge of Honor and several other medals.
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