Ukrainian opera singer, baritone, People's Artist of the USSR (1960), professor (1970).
Biography.
Graduated from the Kyiv Conservatory (1936-41, class of D. Yevtushenko). During the German-Soviet War he was a soloist of the front-line song and dance ensemble, in 1943-44 - of the Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater; in 1944-70 - a soloist of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater. He toured abroad. 1950-77 - a teacher at the Lviv Conservatory (now the Music Academy). Among his students were V. Chaika, V. Luzhetskyi, P. Onchul, V. Fedotov, S. Kryvoruchko, B. Kosopud, N. Datsko, O. Hromysh, S. Fitsych, M. Kryven, V. Tsimura, S. Pyatnychko, H. Vilkha, Slavko Shovkovyi, P. Labaty, and others.
He had a strong voice of beautiful timbre and wide range, as well as stage talent. Roles: Ostap (Taras Bulba by Mykola Lysenko), Bohdan (Bohdan Khmelnytsky by K. Dankevych), Maksym (Zagrava by A. Kos-Anatolsky), Mykhailo Gourmet (Stolen Happiness by Y. Maitus, first performance), Onegin (Eugene Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky). Tchaikovsky), Gryaznoy (The Tsar's Bride by N. Rimsky-Korsakov), Demon (Demon by A. Rubinstein), Germon, Rigoletto (La Traviata, Rigoletto by G. Verdi), Escamillo (Carmen by G. Bizet).
He is also known as a concert and chamber singer. He has recorded many Ukrainian folk songs, as well as romances and arias from operas by Ukrainian and foreign composers. He was a laureate of the Republican Competition of Musicians in Kyiv (1945).
As a participant of the German-Soviet war, in 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II class.
He was buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery.
