V1754. IRINA MASLENNIKOVA: Opera Arias, incl. Arias from Don Giovanni, Roméo, Fra Diavolo, Hamlet, La Sonnambula, Lucia, Tsar’s Bride, Snegoroutchka, Ruslan and Ludmilla, etc. (Russia) Aquarius AQVR 258, recorded 1946-53. - 4607123630280

CRITIC REVIEW:

“The Bolshoi's singer and Kozlovsky's partner in several operas, Irina Maslennikova, said: ‘At the beginning of my career at the Bolshoi I sang first in Rigoletto and then in The Barber of Seville. As a singer I was absolutely unknown to anyone. My first partners were such celebrities as Ivan Kozlovsky and Marc Reizen. Who was I? Just a beginner. But how they cared for me! At rehearsals they treated me like an accomplished singer making no difference between me and themselves’.”

- N. Victorova, AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN THE MOSCOW KREMLIN, 2000