He was born in the
family of a railway engineer. In 1908, after graduating from high school, he
entered the law faculty of Moscow University. From 1915 to 1918 he studied at
the Moscow Conservatory with V.M. Zarudnaya. In addition he perfected his vocal
under N. P. Davydova. These classes lasted only three months, but they gave a
lot to the young singer. He made his debut in Saratov (1918). In the 1920s-1930s
he performed on the operatic stages of Sverdlovsk, Perm, Saratov, Astrakhan,
Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), Baku and other cities, performing the leading tenor
parts (Lensky, Berendey, Prince, Synodal, Igorevich, Faust, Herman, Golitsyn,
Canio, Radames, Jose, Alfred, Duke). He also sang in the theaters of Moscow
(“People’s House”, “Free Opera”, the musical theater named after Stanislavsky
and Nemirovich-Danchenko). From 1936 to 1958 he worked at the All-Union Radio.
He was one of the main singers of the opera group formed on the radio. This
period includes a number of the best performing achievements of the singer. He
sang the parts of Don Juan (“The Stone Guest” by A. S. Dargomyzhsky), Des Grieux
and Cavaradossi (“Manon Lescaut” and “Tosca” by G. Puccini), Riccardo (“Ballo
in maschera” by G. Verdi), Kiribeyevich (“The merchant Kalashnikov ”by A. G. Rubinshtein)
etc. From 1948 to 1966 he taught in the class of singing at the Gnessin State Musical
College. When he was a student at the Moscow Conservatory, he worked with M. M.
Ippolitov-Ivanov in composition. He wrote a series of romances (not published).
A lot of energy was spent by him in the sphere of literary activity, working as
translator. On the radio, using his literary texts, the operas Fra-Diavolo by
Aubert and Gioconda by A. Ponchielli were produced and recorded. He translated
in Russian songs of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and others.
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