Mykhailo Isaiovych Torchynskyi (January 13, 1899, Yelysavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) - July 9, 1986, Lviv) - Ukrainian opera singer (bass), soloist of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater. He was born in Yelysavetgrad. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).
Life and activity
Mykhailo Isaiovych Torchinsky was born in Yelysavetgrad on January 13, 1899. He studied vocal art at the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute from 1920 to 1925 (class of M. Chemezov). After graduation, he was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR from 1925 to 1930. Then, until 1932, he was a soloist of the Kuibyshev Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1932, he came to Kharkiv, where he served in the Military Theater Bureau of the Kharkiv House of the Red Army. Since 1937, he has been a soloist of the Kyiv Philharmonic. During the Second World War, he performed in the Far East, the Urals, and Central Asia. After the war, from 1945 to 1959, he was a soloist of the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater. He died on July 9, 1986 in Lviv.
Awards
Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1951).
Main parts: Boris Godunov ("Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky), Gremin ("Eugene Onegin" by Tchaikovsky), Melnyk ("The Mermaid" by Dargomyzhsky), Halytsky ("Prince Igor" by Borodin), Varyazky guest ("Sadko" by Rimsky-Korsakov), Nilakanta ("Lamke" by Dulib), Mephistopheles ("Faust" by Gounod), Don Basilio ("Barber of Seville" by Rossini).
