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Inessa Galante
Inese Galante was born in the Latvian capital Riga where she entered the music academy in 1977. Whilst still a student she began her singing career and soon her soprano voice was heard in the Riga Opera House and the cathedral then in other “Eastern” countries – Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria and Russia. She became a regular singer at the Kirov Opera in St. Petersburg (Leningrad) and often performed in Moscow, Kiev and Odessa. At the time Galante had no possibility to sing if the “West”, but on an “official” visit to the U.S.A. and Canada with a Latvian Ensemble she received enthusiastic notices from the critics after every performance. Often during this early stage of her career, Inese Galante was told that she would be a great success in the West; at first by a conductor at the Kirov after he heard her sing Lucia, Violetta and Marguerite (Faust), later in Moscow by the late Sir Yehudi Menuhin after he heard her in the Mozart Requiem. Finally by the conductor Zubin Mehta when he visited her hometown of Riga. Inese sang for Mehta – Rossini’s arias from Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” and the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Villa-Lobos. Mehta was astonished, saying that there were few such singers as Inese in the world and advising her to make a career in America – but as Galante says “…in that time the wall between the two worlds was too high!” Finally the wall came down and Inese was free to accept a contract from the Mannheim Opera in Germany, where she made her triumphant debut as Pamina in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” (1992) and where her name is now spelt “INESSA”. Acclaimed performances have followed in many European houses. Campion Records gave Inessa Galante a contract in January 1995 after hearing a sample recording of her voice, and by November of that year she had recorded 18 operatic arias and songs in Riga. Despite Galante’s established success in Eastern Europe her Campion CD’s are the first recordings available to the public. It is Galante’s singing of the “Ave Maria” by Giulio Caccini on her first CD “Debut” which launched her internationally as a singer of exceptional quality. “Debut” brought critical acclaim and offers of engagements. The first Campion CD “Debut” issued in 1995, continues to sell throughout the world and in the spring of 1999 it was awarded a gold disc for sales in Holland and later in the Spring of 2000 it reached Platinum.
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Inessa Galante - MAKS GOLDINS: EIGHTEEN JEWISH FOLK SONGS
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