Petro Bilynnyk 1906 - 1998 Compilation of the Highly Underrated Ukranian tenor

In my opinion. ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TENOR VOICES ON RECORD!!!! 0:00 Nevol'no k etim grustnym beregam from Dargomyzhsky's Rusalka 7:15 Szumia jodly na gor szczycie tekst from Moniuszko's Halka sung in Russian 12:52 Kuda kuda vi udalilis from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin 20:31 Tucha nenastnaja mimo promchalasja from Rimsky Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride 24:04 Taka yiyi dolya 30:07 Step' da step' krugom 37:02 Vizhu chudnoe privol'e 39:41 Stoit' hora vysokaya 45:58 Oy try shlyakhy shyrokiyi 50:48 Vechir nadvori 53:36 Slavnoe more, svyashchennyy Baykal (WITH BORIS GMYRIA!!!) THE END :) He was born on October 1 (14, 1906) in the city of Okhtyrka (now Sumy region). Since childhood, he had exceptional musical abilities. At first he sang in the school choir, and at the age of 18 he organized a home music group that included Ukrainian and Russian folk songs, works by M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, and M. Leontovych. In 1933-1936, he studied at the Kharkiv Conservatory, majoring in solo singing, and was also an artist of the Komsomol Youth Opera. In 1936-1940, he was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater, and in 1941-1942, he was a soloist at the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1942-1965, he was a soloist at the Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theater, the State Academic Choir of the Ukrainian SSR "Dumka", and the State Honored Bandura Choir of the Ukrainian SSR. The grave of Petro Bilynyk In 1951, he took part in the celebrations of Ukrainian culture in Moscow. He toured Poland, Germany, Albania. Among his roles were: Lenskij, Almaviva, Duca, Alfredo, Gérald, Vladimir Igorevich, Berendej, Dubrovskij, Jontek,, Andrij (in Zaporozhets za Dunajem by Hulak-Artemovskyj), Petro (in Natalka Poltavka by Lysenko), Levko, Kozolap (in Mylana, a 1957 opera by Majboroda), the Simpleton, Matjushenko (in Bronenosets Potjomkin/Battleship Potemkin, a 1937 opera by Chishko), Sergej Tjulenin (in Moloda gvardija/Young guard by Juli Mejtus), Jenik, Anatol Kuragin (in Vojna i mir/War and peace), Toropka (Askoldova mogila/Askold's grave by Verstovskij). He also gave lieder concerts and sang as a soloist with the "Dumka" State Choir Capella, and the Bandurists State Capella of the Ukranian SSR. He was famous for singing Ukrainian and Russian folk songs and romances. For many years, he sang together with the great Ukrainian basso Boris Hmyrja (Russified: Gmyrja), mainly in the Ukrainian folk song repertoire. He made several records of Ukrainian folk songs and arias from operas of Rimskij-Korsakov, Dargomyzhskij, Moniuszko, and other composers. Petro Bilynyk lived in Kyiv. He died on October 14, 1998. He was buried at the Baikove Cemetery (plot No. 9). Creative work