СHORUS

Nina Lomanovich graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Music where she had studied under the People’s Artist of Belarus, Associate Prof. Aleksey Kogadeev. She joined the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus as chorus master in 1976, and was promoted to chief chorus master in 1993.

Lomanovich’s outstanding work was noticed and encouraged by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus and the administration of the theatre several times. She was a laureate of the Special Prize of the President of the Republic of Belarus for figures of culture and art in the nomination ‘Music’ in 1998. For contribution to the development of the culture of Belarus she received an order of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus. The title of the Honoured Art Worker of the Republic of Belarus was conferred on her in 1999.

In 2010, the honorary title of the People’s Artist of Belarus was conferred on her for professionalism, considerable achievements and services to culture by the decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus No.474 of 8 September 2010.

In 2017, she was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus for considerable creative accomplishments in the development of musical art, promotion of spiritual values and significant personal contribution to the production of Dmitry Smolsky's opera The Grey Legend  based on the novel by Vladimir Korotkevich.

The chorus lead by Nina Lomanovich has successfully performed immensely complicated chorus parts in numerous operas, including Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Giuseppe Verdi’sNabucco and Aida, The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor, Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Katerina Ismailova) by Dmitry Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky’s Oedipus the King, Gioachino Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Grey Legend by Dmitry Smolsky, Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart etc, as well as Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Johannes Brahms etc.