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[[File:Elena Nikolaidi (1953).jpg|thumb|Elena Nikolaidi (1953)]]
'''Elena Nikolaidi''' (((lang-el|Έλενα Νικολαΐδη)); June 15, 1909 – November 14, 2002) was a Greek-American opera singer and teacher. She sang leading [[mezzo-soprano]] roles with major opera companies worldwide and made numerous recordings.

Her birth year is given as 1906 in some sources.

==Early life and musical study==
Elena Nikolaidi was born in Smyrna, [[Ottoman Empire]], (which is now [[İzmir|İzmir, Turkey]]). In 1922, after the invasion of Turkey in Smyrna, she moved with her family to [[Greece]]. She studied voice on scholarship at the [[Athens Conservatoire]] under Thanos Mellos. She made her debut with orchestra in Athens in a performance conducted by [[Dimitris Mitropoulos]]. Her first stage appearance was in the [[premiere]] of ''The Ghost Bridge'' by [[Theophrastos Sakellaridis]].

Nikolaidi married Mellos, her voice instructor, in 1936. However, she would retain "Elena Nikolaidi" as her professional name.

==Career==
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In 1936, Nikolaidi traveled to [[Vienna]] to compete in the Belvedere vocal competition. She placed fourth but earned a second hearing with the great conductor [[Bruno Walter]], which resulted in her being cast as Princess Eboli, a leading role, in [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]]'s opera ''[[Don Carlos]]'' with the [[Vienna State Opera]] on December 16, 1936.

In 1948, Nikolaidi went to the United States with her husband and their son, Michael. She made her [[The Town Hall (New York City)|Town Hall]] debut recital in [[New York City]] in January 1949. The following morning, Jerome D. Bohm of the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' wrote: "In 20 years of music reviewing and in twice that number spent in listening to most of the world's best singers, I have encountered no greater voice or vocalist"; the ''[[New York Times]]'' critic wrote of her "rare brilliance".

She made her American operatic debut as Amneris in Verdi's ''[[Aida|Aïda]]'' with the [[San Francisco Opera]] and reprised the role for her [[Metropolitan Opera]] debut in 1951 alongside the debut of [[George London (bass-baritone)|George London]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/fullcit.w?xCID=158000&limit=500&xBranch=ALL&xsdate=&xedate=&theterm=1951-52&x=0&xhomepath=&xhome=|title=BiblioTech PRO V3.2b|publisher=Archives.metoperafamily.org|date=November 13, 1951|accessdate=March 27, 2015))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=BibSpeed/gisrch2k.r?Term=Hayward,%20Thomas%20 |title=BiblioTech PRO V3.2a |publisher=Archives.metoperafamily.org |date=November 23, 1945 |accessdate=March 27, 2015))</ref> In the early 1960s she retired from opera but continued concertizing extensively for a number of years.

==Teaching career==
In 1960, Nikolaidi accepted a position on the voice faculty of [[Florida State University]] in [[Tallahassee]]. In 1977, she went to [[Houston, Texas]], as the primary voice instructor for the newly established Houston Opera Studio, a young-artist training program that was at that time a joint venture of [[Houston Grand Opera]] and the [[Moores School of Music|University of Houston]]; she also instructed a select few university students who were not in the HOS program. ((citation needed|date=March 2015))

Nikolaidi's pupils included [[Linda Zoghby]], [[Bruce Fowler (tenor)|Bruce Fowler]], Erie Mills, Glay Posch, and Jan Grissom.<ref name="Slonimsky1988">((cite book|author=Nicolas Slonimsky|title=The Concise Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6Og6AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1007|year=1988|publisher=Schirmer Books|isbn=978-0-02-872411-9|pages=1404))</ref>

==Death==
Madame Nikolaidi retired from teaching in 1994 and moved to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico]], where she died, aged 92, in 2002.

==Recordings==
Elena Nikolaidi made numerous recordings. A small selection is listed below:
*''Legendary Voices'' (CD, [[Preiser Records]]; also issued as ''Lebendige Vergangenheit'' by Albany Music Distribution). Nikolaidi with the [[Columbia Symphony Orchestra]], [[Vienna Symphony Orchestra]], [[New York Philharmonic]], and pianist Jan Behr performing music of [[Gioachino Rossini|Rossini]], [[Giuseppe Verdi|Verdi]], [[Georges Bizet|Bizet]], [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber]], [[Richard Strauss]], [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|Mozart]], [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]], [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Robert Schumann|Schumann]], and [[Johannes Brahms|Brahms]]. (Recorded 1943, 1949, 1950; released 2003)
*''Elena Nikolaidi: In Recital'' (DVD, Video Artists International). Nikolaidi with Guy Bourassa, piano, performing music of [[Christoph Willibald Gluck|Gluck]], [[Hugo Wolf|Wolf]], [[Joseph Canteloube|Canteloube]], and traditional Greek songs. (Recorded 1961; released 2005)
*[[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]]: ''[[Das Lied von der Erde]]'', recorded live in 1953 with [[Bruno Walter]] and the [[New York Philharmonic]] and released on an Archipel CD in 1997 and 2003.
*[[Richard Strauss]]: ''[[Elektra (opera)|Elektra]]'' with the [[New York Philharmonic]] conducted by [[Dimitri Mitropoulos]]; Nikolaidi sang the role of Klytemnestra. (Recorded 1949)

==References==
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==Sources==
*Ward, Charles (May 8, 1994). "Ciao, Niki". ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070202095808/http://www.beautyinmusic.com/artist_pages/elena_nikolaidi.htm "Elena Nikolaidi (1909&ndash;2002)"]. Beautyinmusic.com
*Mattison, Ben (November 19, 2002). [https://web.archive.org/web/20070202071934/http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=19219 "Mezzo-Soprano Elena Nikolaidi Is Dead at 96"]. ''Houston Chronicle''.
*[http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?lastname=mellos&firstname=elena&nt=exact Social Security Death Index]
*[http://www.classicalcdreview.com/tenna.htm "Tenna Kraft - Elena Nikolaidi"]. Classical CD Review.
*[http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,794529,00.html "Music: Velvet"]. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', January 31, 1949

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