Pavel Lisitsian 1911 - 2004 Compilation of the Legendary Armenian Baritone!

ONE OF THE GREATEST BARITONES OF ALL TIME!!!! MY FAVORITE ARMENIAN BARITONE EVER!!! 0:00 Gorod kamenny, gorodam vsem from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko 4:32 Kogda bi zhizn domashnim krugom from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin 9:31 O Maria! Maria! from Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa 14:54 Ya vas lyublyu from Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades 18:57 Votre Toast je peux vous le rendre from Bizet's Carmen sung in russian 23:49 Ya tot, kotoromu vnimala from Rubinstein's Demon 27:02 Prince Tatul’s Aria from Alexander Spendiaryan's Almast 29:57 Arshak's Arioso from Tigran Chukhajian's Arshak II 32:28 Non mi tradir, Suo padre from Verdi's Aida sung in russian 35:33 Ciel mio padre from Verdi's Aida sung in russian (With Galina Vishnevskaya!!) 43:31 Alzati la tuo figlio, Eri tu che macchiavi from Verdi's Un ballo in maschera sung in russian 50:19 Il balen del suo sorriso from Verdi's Il Trovatore sung in russian 53:19 Di provenza il mar il soul from Verdi's La Traviata sung in russian 58:07 Si puo Si puo from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci sung in russian 01:05:43 O sommo carlo from Verdi's Ernani sung in russian 01:09:22 Core'ngrato by Salvatore Cardillo 01:12:50 La serenata by Paolo Tosti 01:15:46 Net, tol'ko tot, kto znal by Tchaikovsky 01:18:53 Yeraz by Alexander Dolukhanyan 01:21:37 An di musik by Franz Schubert sung in russian 01:25:40 O Marenariello by Salvatore Gambardella THE END :) Pavel Gerasimovich Lisitsian (Russian: Павел Герасимович Лисициан, Armenian: Պավել (Պողոս) Գերասիմի Լիսիցյան; November 6, 1911 – July 6, 2004), was a Soviet baritone opera singer who performed in the Bolshoi Opera, Moscow from 1940 until his retirement from stage in 1966. People's Artist of the USSR (1956). Biography Pavel Lisitsian was born 6 November 1911 in Vladikavkaz, Vladikavkazsky okrug, Terek Oblast, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire. He was born into an Armenian family living in Vladikavkaz, where his father was a mineworker. Pavel first worked in diamond drilling, then as a welder apprentice hoping to follow his father's steps. He first began to sing in a church choir before moving to Leningrad to study cello (1930). As a strong-voiced soloist of a local amateur group he was commissioned to the Leningrad Conservatory. He started his vocal career in the Maly Leningrad State Opera Theatre and then in the Yerevan Opera House, where he performed the leads for three years. From 1940 to 1966, Pavel Lisitsian was the soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre and performed parts of Yeletsky, Onegin, Mazepa, and Robert (in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Eugene Onegin, Mazeppa, and Iolanta respectively), Germont and Amonasro (in Verdi's Traviata and Aida), Escamilo (in Bizet’s Carmen), Tatul (Spendiarov’s Almast), Arsaces II (Arshak II) (Chuhadzhyan's Arshak II), Napoleon (in Prokofiev's War and Peace), and others. During a concert tour of the US in 1960, he appeared at the Metropolitan Opera as Amonasro. And in San Francisco, at the Cosmopolitan Opera on April 1 1960, he sang in the cast of Faust (along with Dorothy Warenskjold and Norman Treigle), in tenor Jussi Bjorling's final operatic performance before his death.[1][2] Lisitsian sang his role, the soldier Valentin, in Russian while the others sang in French. He died in Moscow at age 92. His daughters Karina and Ruzanna are successful opera singers who frequently perform together. His grand daughter pianist Elena Lisitsian lives in New York City and his grandson Paul Asoyan lives in Encinitas, California.