Ukrainian singer (lyric tenor).
Biography.
He was born on June 25, 1873 in the village of Hlushyn (now Zolochiv district, Lviv region, Ukraine). He received his vocal education in 1900 at the Vienna Conservatory. He studied with Leo Slezak in Vienna.
In 1900-1905, he was a soloist at the Ljubljana Opera, in 1905-1914 - at the Poznan Opera, and in 1914-1915 - at the Vienna Opera. He sang in theaters in Yugoslavia, Poland, Austria, and Italy. From 1902 to 1912 and from 1922 to 1924 he worked at the Ruska Besida Theater in Lviv, from 1925 to 1926 - in the company of Yosyp Stadnyk, and in 1928-1929 - at the Ivan Tobilevych Theater. He also performed at the Lviv Opera.
He was repressed in 1940. He died in 1949. Rehabilitated posthumously.
Creative work
He performed the following parts:
Petro (Natalka Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko);
Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky;
Andriy (Catherine by Mykola Arkas);
Maksym (The Witch by Yaroslav Yaroslavenko);
Yenik (The Sold Bride by Bedřich Smetana);
Yontek (Pebbles by Stanislav Moniushko);
Faust (Faust by Charles Gounod);
Alfred (La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi).
In concerts, he performed romances by Mykola Lysenko, Viktor Matiuk, and Ukrainian folk songs.
