The article is devoted to the development and formation of the Italian vocal schools in the era of the New Age. The most important aspects of the development of the Italian vocal school are the domination of castrate singers in the 18th century and their gradual ousting in the era of the romantic opera formation. During the 20th century, the internationalization of Italian opera and vocal teaching methods take place. The study is based on a complex of historical methods. The materials are of interest to researchers of vocal technology and cultural history.

The article is devoted to vocal education in Kazan as part of a general cultural process. Kazan as “a gathering place of two worlds – the Western and the Eastern”, was the leading music and cultural center. This city was simultaneously one of the largest provincial centers of Russian culture, and Muslim Tatar’s. During the XIX century in Kazan not only amateur music-making was actively developed but also were created music-public associations and private music teachers became widespread. The concert and performance in Kazan inevitably went through single phases and stages of development common to the whole country. Over time, amateur performance gives way to professional performance. The article is used a set of humanitarian and historical methods. The materials may be interesting for researchers of music education in Russia, as well as Russian provincial culture.

This article is devoted to formation of the Russian vocal school by examining the examples of M. Glinka, A. Varlamov, and H. Nissen-Saloman's pedagogical techniques. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka by right is considered the founder of the Russian school of singing. Alexander Varlamov for the first time tried to generalize theoretically practical experience of training in singing art. Henriette Nissen-Saloman, one more prominent representative of vocal pedagogics in Russia, made a lot of things for realization of experience of the European schools, first of all, French and Italian. Article leans on a complex of methods of the humanities, first of all historical and genetic and biographic. Its materials are of interest to historians of culture, researchers of the Russian music of the 19th century and experts in vocal pedagogics.