Oleksandr Hryhorovych Mosin (16 October 1871, Shestirnya - 9 September 1929, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian Soviet singer (tenor), Honoured Artist of the Republic (1928).
Biography.
He was born on 3 (16 October) 1871 in the village of Sheshternia, Kherson province (now Shyrokiv district, Dnipro region) in the family of a public school teacher.
He received his education at the Kherson Teachers' Seminary. He studied singing in 1893-1897 at the Moscow Conservatoire (class of E. Lavrovska), where he graduated with a small silver medal.
He made his debut at the M. Unkovsky Opera Company. Later he performed in Tiflis, Yaroslavl, Rostov, St. Petersburg (U. Guidi's Private Opera House, 1902; A. Aksarin's People's House, 1903-1905, 1910-1918), Kyiv (1905-1908, 1927-1929). In 1908-1910, he was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (he made his debut on 20 March 1907 in the role of Radames). Later he performed at the opera houses of Tbilisi (1923-1925), Kharkiv (1925-1927) and Odesa.
He died on 9 September 1929. He was buried in Kyiv at the Lukianivske Cemetery (plot No. 11).
Creativity
The first performer of the parts: Fitzherbert ("Potemkin's Feast"), Belidor ("Madajara"), Kashtanov ("The Explosion"); in St. Petersburg: Bastryukov (A Dream on the Volga), Vronsky (Anna Karenina); in Kyiv - Enzo (Gioconda), Khlopusha (The Eagle's Rebellion), Dufresne (Zaza); in Odesa - Khlopusha.
Second parties: Toropka, Sobinin, Prince (The Mermaid by O. Dargomyzhsky), Impostor, Rualda, Agathon, Vladimir Dubrovsky, Lykov, Sadko, Berendey, Vakula (The Night Before Christmas and The Slippers), Herman (The Queen of Spades), Bastryukov (The Voivode), Prince Yuri, Nero (Nero), Nikolai (Christmas Eve); Faust (Faust and Mephistopheles), Othello (Othello by G. Verdi), Don Carlos (The King's Speech), and others. Don Carlos (Don Carlos), Rudolf (La bohème), José (Carmen), Raoul, John of Leiden, Samson, Canio, Calaf, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser.
Partners: L. Andreeva-Delmas, K. Antarova, L. Balanovska, K. Brun, R. Gorska, O. De Vos-Soboleva, M. Litvinenko-Volgemuth, V. Losky, L. Savransky, P. Tikhonov, F. Chaliapin, L. Yakovlev.
He sang under the direction of U. Avranek, M. Golinkin, E. Granelli, E. Cooper, J. Pagan, I. Palitsyn, V. Suk, B. Yanovsky.
In concerts, he performed romances by Russian composers, including P. Tchaikovsky and S. Rachmaninoff.
