Mykola Oleksiyovych Ukrainskyi (born 1 January 1935, Vesela Lopan) is a Ukrainian opera singer (tenor).
Biography.
Mykola Ukrainskyi was born on 1 January 1935 in the village of Vesela Lopan, Belgorod district, Belgorod region, RSFSR. He received his vocal education privately.
He began his career in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Baltic Fleet (1958-1959, 1960-1964). In 1964-1970 he was a soloist of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, in 1970-1974 - Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, and since 1974 - Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre.
Roles.
Bohun (Bohdan Khmelnytsky by K. Dankevych);
Volodymyr Ihorovych (Prince Igor by A. Borodin);
Lykov (The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov);
Knyazhich, Lensky, Vodemon (The Enchantress, Eugene Onegin, Iolanta by Tchaikovsky);
The Impostor (Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky);
Alfred, the Duke, Richard (La Traviata, Rigoletto, La bohème de la masquerade by G. Verdi);
Faust (Faust by Gounod);
Rudolph (La bohème by G. Puccini);
Almaviva (The Barber of Seville by G. Rossini);
Klembovsky (Semyon Kotko by Sergei Prokofiev);
Alexei ("Optimistic Tragedy" by A. Kholminov).
Honours.
Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1975;
Winner of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1978; together with K. Dankevych, P. Varivoda, A. Arefiev, V. Kiosse, A. Danshin, N. Surzhyna for the opera Bohdan Khmelnytsky (new edition) at the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theatre)
