Roman Ivanovych Prokopovych-Orlenko (22 September 1883, Chyzhykiv village, now Pustomyty district, Lviv region - 24 July 1962, Vynnyky) was a world-renowned Ukrainian opera singer (bass-baritone), vocal teacher, and patriotic musician.
Education.
In 1908 he graduated from the Faculty of Music of the University of Vienna. He was a soloist of the Vienna (1908-1915), Ostrava and Prague (1915-1916) operas, and the Theatre of the Ruska Besida Society in Lviv (1918-1920). He taught at the Mykola Lysenko Higher Music Institute (1920-1925), Lviv gymnasiums (1925-1939), and in 1939-1949 - at the Lviv Conservatory and Music School.
Conducting activity
Conductor of the choirs of the Academic Gymnasium, "Bonn", "Banduryst", and the choir at the Volos Church in Lviv. Roles: Sultan (Gulak-Artemovsky's Cossack Beyond the Danube), Taras (Lysenko's Taras Bulba), Demon (Rubinstein's Demon), Wotan (Wagner's The Rhine's Gold, Wagner's Das Rheingold).
1949-1957 - in exile in the Khabarovsk Territory. Here he worked as a guard at a brick factory.
Family.
His wife - Ivanna Viktorivna Prokopovych (1896-1983), they had seven children.
Daughters - Oksana, Anna-Lidiia, Myroslava, Maria
Sons - Ivan, Marko, Nestor.
