Neil Topchiy (b. 13 (25) November 1893, Odesa - d. 31 October 1980, Odesa, Ukrainian SSR) was an opera singer (lyric and dramatic tenor), Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1956).
Biography.
He studied singing privately. He worked at the Odesa Opera House, first singing in the chorus (1913-1916), then as a soloist (1916-1926, 1927-1933, 1941-1960). He also performed on the opera stages of Kharkiv (1926-1927) and Sverdlovsk (1933-1939).
Repertoire
Harlampia (Karmelyuk by V. Kostenko)
Inspector (Captured by Apple Trees by O. Chyshko)
Bogdan Sobinin (Life for the Tsar by Nikolai Glinka)
Prince (The Mermaid by O. Dargomyzhsky)
Eroshka (Prince Igor by A. Borodin)
Impostor and Prince Vasily Shuisky (Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky)
Vladimir Dubrovsky ("Dubrovsky" by E. Nadezhdaev)
Prince Synodal (The Demon by A. Rubinstein)
Bobyr-Bakula (The Snow Maiden by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Bomelius (The Tsar's Bride by N. Rimsky-Korsakov)
Herman (The Queen of Spades by P. Tchaikovsky)
Drunken Cossack and Andrey (Mazepa by P. Tchaikovsky)
Lensky and Trike (Eugene Onegin by P. Tchaikovsky)
Andriy (The Cossack Beyond the Danube by S. Hulak-Artemovsky)
Colonel Bohun (Bohdan Khmelnytsky by K. Dankevych)
Aleroy ("For Life", 2nd ed. of the opera "The Eagle" by V. Trambytskyi, 1938, one of the first performances)
Faust (one-act opera by Ch. Gounod)
Gerald (Lakmé by L. Delibes)
Franz (Tales of Hoffmann by J. Offenbach)
Don José (Carmen by G. Bizet)
Count Almaviva (The Barber of Seville by G. Rossini)
Radames (Aida by G. Verdi)
The Duke (Rigoletto by G. Verdi)
Pinkerton (Cio-Cio-San / Madama Butterfly by G. Puccini)
Beppo and Canio (La Pagliacci by R. Leoncavallo)
Pantelei Melekhov (The Quiet Don by I. Dzerzhinsky)
