Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet opera singer and music educator
Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1930
Place of Birth: Kerki, Lebap Region, Turkmenistan
Date of Death: 03-Jan-2018
Profession: singer, opera singer, music pedagogue
Nationality: Turkmenistan
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Medeniyet Shahberdiyeva
- Medeniyet (sometimes Maya) Shahberdiyeva (February 23, 1930 – January 3, 2018) was a Turkmenistan opera singer of the Soviet era. Shahberdiyeva was born in Atamyrat, Lebap Province, at the time known as Kerki.
- In her youth she learned to play the gyjak.
- A coloratura soprano, she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1956; beginning in 1962 she received further vocal lessons in Kiev.
- She was a featured soloist on the roster of the Turkmen Opera and Ballet Theater from 1956; roles in her repertory included the title role in The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Marfa in The Tsar's Bride, also by Rimsky-Korsakov; Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini; Violetta in La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi; the title role in Lakmé by Léo Delibes; Aylar in The End of the Bloody Watershed by Veli Mukhatov; Aknabat in Night of Alarm by Aman Agadzhikov; and Shasenem in Shasenem and Gharib by Adrian Shaposhnikov.
- She also performed in concert.
- During her career Shahberdiyeva traveled abroad as well as performing domestically.
- She was also named a deputy to the sixth and seventh convocations of the Supreme Soviet of the Turkmen SSR.
- She became an instructor at the Ashgabat Institute of Arts in 1975, the same year in which she was named a People's Artist of the USSR; she was also honored as a People's Artist of the Turkmen SSR for her work.
- Shahberdiyeva has continued to receive recognition from the government of Turkmenistan since it gained its independence from the Soviet Union.
- She was the subject of a documentary which was shown in Ashgabat in 2008.
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