Anatolii Hryhorovych Kabantsiv (born 4 December (16 December) 1900, Nova Mykhailivka, now part of Dnipro - 25 May 1956, Buenos Aires) was a Ukrainian singer (tenor), music critic, and teacher.
After graduating from the 2nd classical gymnasium in Katerynoslav, he entered the medical faculty of the newly opened Katerynoslav University. However, he gave up his medical career. He began systematically studying singing first with Professor Mykhailo Mykhailovych Engel-Kron (director of the Yekaterinoslav Conservatory), and later with his brother Akimov (Serhii Mykhailovych Engel-Kron (1867-1930). Then he took lessons from Italian singer Mario Antonelli, professor Zinaida Maliutina and a teacher at the Dnipro Conservatory Olha Tarlovska.
After graduating from the Dnipro Music College (1932; class of Zinaida Maliutina), he became a soloist of the Dnipro Philharmonic.
In 1935-1941, he was a soloist at the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre, in 1941-1943 - at the Ukrainian Music Theatre in Dnipro, in 1943-1944 - at the Ternopil Music and Drama Theatre.
In 1944, together with his wife, opera singer Nina Pavlivna Slobodina, and daughter Palazhka, he emigrated to Europe - Bratislava, Prague, Tyrol (Austria), Augsburg, Füssen, Bad Verisgofen. From there, together with his wife, he made concert tours almost all over Bavaria. The couple left Germany for France.
In 1948, Kabantsiv moved to Argentina to the city of Buenos Aires. There he was engaged in teaching activities and ran a vocal studio. He wrote music-critical articles in periodicals.
Parties.
Andriy (Semen Hulak-Artemovsky's "Cossack beyond the Danube"),
Petro, Levko, Apollo (Natalka Poltavka, The Drowned, Aeneid by Mykola Lysenko),
Andriy (Catherine by Mykola Arkas),
Lensky (Eugene Onegin by Pyotr Tchaikovsky),
Alfred, the Duke (La Traviata, Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi).
