Petro Skuba (b. 1879, Chernihiv province - d. 26 January (7 February) 1917, Odesa) was a Ukrainian opera singer (lyrical and dramatic tenor). Husband of the singer Iryna Burska.
Education and career
He studied singing at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of U. Mazetti, later he improved his performing skills in Italy (at the expense of S. Zimin). In 1909-1914, he performed at the S. Zimin Opera (Moscow). Later he performed on the opera stages of Kyiv (1914-1916) and Odesa (1916-1917). He toured in Yekaterinburg (1909), Rostov-on-Don, Novy Novgorod (1914).
Parties
First roles:
Dato (Betrayal by M. Ippolitov-Ivanov, 1910);
Vinicia (Camo grudechi? by J. Nuguet, 1910);
Nando (The Valley by E. d'Albert, 1911);
Glukhovtsev (Days of Our Lives by Alexei Glukhovtsev, 1913).
Other pariahs: Bogdan Sobinin (Life for the Tsar by Nikolai Glinka), Impostor (Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky), Prince Andrei Khovansky (Khovanshchina by Mussorgsky), Sadko (opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), Mozart (Mozart and Salieri by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov). Rimsky-Korsakov), Ivan Lykov (The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov), Lensky (Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky), Prince Yuri (The Enchantress by Tchaikovsky), Andrey (Mazepa by Tchaikovsky), Hermann (The Magician by Tchaikovsky). Tchaikovsky), Herman (The Queen of Spades by P. Tchaikovsky), Vaudemont (Iolanta by P. Tchaikovsky), Andrei (The Bailiff by P. Tchaikovsky), José (Carmen by G. Bizet), Faust (opera by Gounod), Pedro (La Dolina by E. d'Albert), Radames (Aida by G. Verdi), Alfred (La Traviata by G. Verdi), Pinkerton (Cio-Cio-San/Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini), Turiddu (La Rusticia di Mascagni), Tannhäuser (one-act opera by R. Wagner).
