Ukrainian opera and chamber singer (lyric tenor).
Biography.
He was born on October 1 (14, 1906) in the city of Okhtyrka (now Sumy region). Since childhood, he had exceptional musical abilities. At first he sang in the school choir, and at the age of 18 he organized a home music group that included Ukrainian and Russian folk songs, works by M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, and M. Leontovych. In 1933-1936, he studied at the Kharkiv Conservatory, majoring in solo singing, and was also an artist of the Komsomol Youth Opera.
In 1936-1940, he was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater, and in 1941-1942, he was a soloist at the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1942-1965, he was a soloist at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater, the State Academic Choir of the Ukrainian SSR "Dumka", and the State Honored Bandura Choir of the Ukrainian SSR.
The grave of Petro Bilynyk
Petro Bilynyk lived in Kyiv. He died on October 14, 1998. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery (plot No. 9).
Creative work
Main roles:
Petro ("Natalka Poltavka" by M. Lysenko);
Levko ("Drowned" by M. Lysenko);
Aeolus ("Aeneid" by Mykola Lysenko);
Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by S. Hulak-Artemovsky);
Tyulenin (The Young Guard by Yuri Maitus);
Lensky (Eugene Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky);
Impostor (Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky);
Grandfather Shchukar (The Raised Virgin Lands by I. Dzerzhynsky);
Yontek (Pebbles by S. Moniuszko);
Lohengrin ("Lohengrin" by R. Wagner) and others.
Awards
Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
People's Artist of the USSR (1954).
