Ukrainian singer (bass-baritone).
Biography.
He studied at the State Music School in Lviv (later Lviv Conservatory). He was a student of Roman Lyubynetsky, a famous Ukrainian singer and teacher, and Dometiy Yokha (Berezovets). During his studies in Lviv, he took private lessons from the world-famous singer Solomiya Krushelnytska and the famous opera baritone singer Volodymyr Kachmar.
"The Ukrainian National Choir conducted by Vasyl Ostashevsky. Lviv, 1943. Ostap Ropianyk is in the second row, 2nd from the left.
He began his artistic career with concerts in the Dolyna "Boyan". Over the years, he sang in the Vasyl Ostashevskyi Men's Choir, the famous Dmytro Kotko Choir, the Carpathian Song and Dance Ensemble "Verkhovyna", and the Syktyvkar Philharmonic (Komi Republic). The main period of his creative activity is associated with the Hutsul Song and Dance Ensemble and the Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Philharmonic, where he worked as a soloist-vocalist for several decades in a row.
Possessing a beautiful voice, Ostap Ropianyk deserved to have his talent recognized by the authorities. Back in the Komi ASSR, he was nominated for the title of Honored Artist of the Republic. However, he did not wait for this - at that time, the long-awaited opportunity to return to his homeland from the places of exile of his wife and daughter, with whom he voluntarily stayed there until the beginning of the Khrushchev Thaw (1956), outweighed it. This page in his biography played a negative role in the singer's future career: any attempts by artistic circles to recognize his merits were decisively crossed out by ideological authorities.
