Kostiantyn Ivanovych Mykhailov-Stoyan (* 25 March 1850, Velykyi Buyalyk - † 25 April 1914, Sofia), Ukrainian and Bulgarian singer (tenor), musician, stage name Stoyan.
Biography.
He came from a large family of immigrants from Bulgaria. He was brought up in the South Slavic (Bulgarian) boarding school (Mykolaiv).
He graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory in 1882 (class of Vasyl Samus).
In 1882-1884, he worked in the troupe of Marko Kropyvnytskyi and Mykhailo Starytskyi, in particular, in Rostov-on-Don, Kyiv (1891-1892), and Odesa opera houses.
In 1888-1890 and 1897-1898, he was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre, performing in Saratov in an operetta, and in Kazan.
In 1890-1893 he performed at the Society of Opera Artists. of Ilarion Pryanishnikov in Moscow and Kyiv.
In the early 1890s, he perfected his skills in Milan with Martin Petz and Guadagnini.
In 1897, he founded an opera company with which he performed in Vitebsk, Kerch, and Smolensk.
He toured Bulgaria in 1899, Saratov and Kazan in 1900, and Riga in 1903.
From 1907 he lived in the Principality of Bulgaria. In 1908 he was one of the founders of the Bulgarian Opera Society in Sofia.
He taught in Vilna and was the director of a music school in Rostov-on-Don.
He wrote musicological works, including:
"On the question of the basis of Bulgarian folk opera", Sofia, 1907;
"Confessions of a Tenor, 2 volumes, Moscow, 1895-1896,
"Glinka and Pushkin in Ruslan and Lyudmila, St Petersburg, 1905,
"Laws of Vocalisation, Moscow, 1912.
In character roles, he performed in a comic role.
His performance partners included Yelizveta Azerska, Oleksandr Antonovskyi, Stepan Vlasov, Vasyl Hrytsai, Maria Deisha-Sionytska, Margarita Eichenwald, Alevtina Paskhalova, Leonid Sobinov, Joachim Tartakov, Stepan Trezvinskyi, Vasyl Tiutiunnyk, and Pavlo Khokhlov.
He performed under the guidance of, among others, Ulrich Avranek and Yosyp Prybik.
Among the roles performed are.
Andriy, in Gulak-Artemovsky's Cossack Beyond the Danube, the first performer on the Ukrainian stage, 1884;
Volodymyr Ihorovych, Borodin's Prince Igor, 1891, Kyiv,
Levko, May Night by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1892,
Eroshka, Borodin's Prince Igor, Moscow, 1898,
Rajames, Verdi's Aida,
The Duke, Rigoletto by Verdi,
Manrico, "Il Trovatore" by Verdi,
Tannhäuser, Tannhäuser by Wagner,
Alfred, Verdi's La Traviata,
Manrico, "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe Verdi,
Bayan, Ruslan and Lyudmila by Glinka,
Faust, "Faust" by Gounod,
Prince - The Mermaid by Dargomyzhsky,
Beppo, Canio, Leoncavallo's Pagliacci,
Petro - "Natalka Poltavka" by Lysenko,
Turiddu, Rural Honour by Mascagni,
Rimbaud, Robert the Devil by Meyerbeer,
Yontek, "Pebbles" by Moniuszko,
Tamino, The Magic Flute by Mozart,
Misail, Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky,
Deforge, Dubrovsky by Eduard Nadezhda,
Count Almaviva, The Barber of Seville by Rossini,
Synodal, Rubinstein's The Demon,
Vasya, Serov's "The Enemy Force",
The Prince's Fool, Rogneda by Serov,
Vagoa, "Judith" Serov,
Herman - The Guilty Beauty by Tchaikovsky,
Lensky, Triquet, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin,
Paisius, The Sorceress by Tchaikovsky,
school teacher, The Slippers Tchaikovsky.
