Stepan Vasylovych Stepan (born 26 May 1938 - died 6 December 2017) was a Ukrainian opera singer, People's Artist of Ukraine, former soloist of the Solomiya Krushelnytska Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. He is an honorary citizen of Staryi Sambir (2008).
Biography
Stepan Stepan was born on 26 May 1938 in the village of Makhniv near Rava Ruska, now the Lubiczka-Korolivska Commune, Tomaszów Poviat, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. His father Vasyl Stepan was a native of the village of Makhniv, and his mother Yevdokiia Shemerdiak was a native of Staryi Sambir. The family had two other younger sons, Volodymyr and Myroslav, an older sister, Mariia, born in 1936, and a younger sister, Oleksandra, who lived in Staryi Sambir.
In 1939, he and his family moved to Staryi Sambir for permanent residence.
Stepan graduated from the Stanislav Liudkevych Music School and the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory. He was a soloist at the Solomiya Krushelnytska National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Lviv.
In recent years, he lived in the village of Mervychi, Zhovkva district, Lviv region.
Stepan died on 6 December 2017, he was buried on 8 December in Lviv on the 13th field of Lychakiv Cemetery.
Family.
Wife Marta, three sons - Volodymyr, Vadym and Yurii.
Creativity
Stepan Stepan's repertoire includes more than 100 arias, folk songs, carols, and Christmas carols. He performed the part of Nabucco in the opera of the same name by Giuseppe Verdi, the ataman in the opera Taras Bulba by Lysenko, the sultan in Cossacks Beyond the Danube by Hulak-Artemovsky and many others.
Volodymyr Ivasyuk and Ihor Bilozir wrote songs for Stepan and personally gave him their notes. And Ihor Bilozir's "Autumn" and Ivan Vovchyk's anthem about Staryi Sambir, set to music by Kos-Anatolsky, were performed only by Stepan Stepan.
Awards, titles and prizes
2008 - Honorary Citizen of Staryi Sambir.
