Irina Arkhipova

Irina Arkhipova was born in Moscow. Before switching to voice, she studied architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute, graduating in 1948. ==Repertoire==

• Giuseppe Verdi • Aida (Amneris) • Don Carlos (Eboli) • Il trovatore (Azucena) • Un ballo in maschera (Ulrica) • Falstaff (Meg Page) • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky • Eugene Onegin (Filippyevna) • The Maid of Orleans (Joan of Arc) • The Queen of Spades (Countess) • Mazeppa (Lyubov) • The Enchantress (Princess Yevpraksiya Romanovna) • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov • ''The Tsar's Bride'' (Lyubasha) • Sadko (Lyubava Buslayevna) • The Snow Maiden (Spring Beauty) • Sergei Prokofiev • War and Peace (Hélène) • The Story of a Real Man (Klaudiya Michailovna) • Modest Mussorgsky • Boris Godunov (Marina) • Khovanshchina (Marfa) • Alexander Dargomyzhsky • The Stone Guest (Laura) • Richard Wagner • Das Rheingold (Fricka) • Georges Bizet • Carmen (Carmen) • Jules Massenet • Werther (Charlotte) • Pietro Mascagni • Cavalleria rusticana (Santuzza) • Christoph Willibald Gluck • Iphigénie en Aulide (Clytemnestra) • Tikhon Khrennikov • Mother (Nilovna) • Vano Muradeli • October (Countess) ==Honours and awards==

• Hero of Socialist Labour (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of 29 December 1984) • Order of St. Andrew (2 January 2005) – for outstanding contributions to the development of domestic and world music, many years of creative and social activities • Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 2nd class (30 December 30, 1999) – for outstanding achievements in the field of culture and great contributions to the development of a national songwriting [8] • Three Orders of Lenin (1971, 25 May 1976) • Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971) • Medal of Pushkin (4 June 1999) – to mark the 200th anniversary of Pushkin for services in the field of culture, education, literature and art • Medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1970) • Diploma of the President of the Russian Federation (2 January 2010) – for great contribution to music education [10] • Order of Saint Olga, 2nd class (Russian Orthodox Church, 2000) • Order of the Republic (Moldova) (2000) • Cross of Saint Michael of Tver (2000) • Badge of Honour "For mercy and charity" (2000) • Badge of Honour "For services to Polish culture" • Honour of St. Luke – culture of the Yaroslavl region. • Lenin Prize (1978) – for her performances as Azucena in Verdi's opera "Il Trovatore," and Lyubava in Rimsky-Korsakov's "Sadko," as well as concerts in recent years • State Prize of the Russian Federation (1996) • Russian opera prize "Casta diva" (1999) • Prize in Moscow (2000) • Prizes and medals Rachmaninov • World of Art Award (established by the corporation "Marisha Art Management International") – "Diamond Lira" and the title "Goddess of Art" (1996) • Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1959) • People's Artist of the RSFSR (1961) • People's Artist of the USSR (1966) • People's Artist of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan • People's Artist of the Republic of Bashkortostan (1994) • Honored Artist of Udmurtia • Honorary Doctor of the Moldovan National Academy of Music (1998) • Honorary Doctor of RCTU (2001) • Professor of Moscow State Conservatory Arkhipova was entered into the Russian Book of Records as the most titled Russian singer. Minor planet number 4424 was named "Arkhipova," in 1995. ==Notes==