A.Zagdsuren is a Primadonna of Mongolian opera, the greatest operatic voice that Mongolia has ever produced and the greatest Mongolian soprano of all time. She was born in 1933 and made her way to the top thanks to her charisma and immense natural gift of her voice. In 1952-1958 she was one of the leading singers at the Central Theatre in Ulaanbaatar. Eventually she was noticed by a Russian opera singer from the Bolshoi Theatre who visited Mongolia in 1958 and who after all advised the President of Mongolia Tsedenbal to send Zagdsuren to the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow. Zagdsuren had a very high prestige and solid professional esteem on the side of her teachers at the Conservatoire, especially by her vocal teacher Roza Yakovlevna Alpert, one of Russia's prominent vocal specialists. Upon Zagdsuren's graduation most of the vocal teachers at the Conservatoire were in a state of despair by saying ''This girl is undoubtedly a world class singer. What will happen when she returns home? Does Mongolia have much to offer her? etc''. As soon as Zagdsuren returned to Ulaanbaatar, she ought to prove to the nation that she had learnt the best and she must be the best operatic voice in Mongolia. In 1960 the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia premiered the ''Eugene Onegin'' by Tchaikovsky. Zagdsuren sang the main female character Tatiyana and it was a great success. Her alluring voice delivered the most outstanding version of Tatiyana, a young woman who is desperate for love, helpless and frustrated. ''This is probably the best ever interpretation of Tatiyana's character on the operatic scene'' said famous Mongolian composer and musicologist Jantsannorov. For more than 20 years Zagdsuren remained as the leading prima of the State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet of Mongolia and her vocal power had never been surpassed by any other Mongolian opera singer until today. Her grandest performances in ''Madame Butterly'' in 1965-1970, ''Rusalka' in 1968, ''Tosca'' in 1973 and ''La Boheme'' in 1974 made her enormously popular abroad, specially in Russia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Japan and other countries. Her voice range is boundless and huge. Reaching the highest notes she managed to create staggering staccato and going even higher she blasted a powerful diminuendo that perhaps equallled to Maria Callas in terms of vocal range and her coloratura that sounds much closer to Renata Tebaldi. In all terms Zagdsuren was a world class opera singer who truly had rare god given gifts. Her contribution to the prosperity of operatic art in Mongolia is also great as she produced more than 50 professional opera singers while she was a vocal teacher and coach at the University of Art & Culture. In 1999 Zagdsuren was awarded with the highest award in artistic achievement, the ''State's Honored Artist of Mongol Nation''. Thanks to great achievements of our noble opera singers such as Tsogzolmaa, Haidav, Purevdorj and Zagdsuren and upon their legacy the Mongolian operatic art is now considered to be as the most advanced and most prestigious in Asia. Vocal advantages that the Mongolian opera singers possess is probably the only natural quality of the essence as numerous Mongolian opera singers have won several world renowned international competitions such as Tchaikovsky in 2011 by Amartuvshin and Glinka in 2007 and 2011by others.
