Ivan Kozlovsky

Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky (Russian: Иван Семёнович Козловский, scientific transliteration Ivan Semenovic Kozlovskij; * 11.jul / March 24 1900greg in Marjanowka, province Kiev, Ukraine today, .. † 21 December 1993, Moscow) was a Russian opera singer.

He was a lyric tenor who could sing with his timbre, like Leo Slezak or Jussi Björling, thanks to its technology and a duke ( in Verdi's Rigoletto ), a Faust ( Margarete in ) or a Lohengrin. One of his most famous roles is considered the Fool in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov.

Biography

Koslowski came from a Russian-Ukrainian peasant family. At the age of seven he sang in a boys choir. After a music teacher became aware of him, Koslowski was allowed to go with 15 years in a music school in Kiev, where he graduated in 1919. There he was trained by his teacher Lysenko and his wife Murawjowa which dated from the Court Opera and bel canto tradition. Until the mid- 1920s he was primarily as an opera singer active in hiking theaters in several Ukrainian cities.

1926 Koslowski was added to the ensemble of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, where he was still active as a soloist until 1954. In the 1930s, Koslowski was one of the favorite musician head of state Joseph Stalin, he also received the honorary title " People's Artist of the USSR " on its adoption. Even after the withdrawal from the Bolshoi troupe was Koslowski long time musically active and took on a variety of records. Even as a 90 - year-old he appeared in the role of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin Triquet.

Well-known games (selection)

• Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin: Lenski
• Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov: fool Ivan
• Wagner's Lohengrin: Lohengrin
• Verdi's Rigoletto: Duke
• Verdi's La traviata: Alfred
• Gounod's Faust ( Gounod ): Dr. Faust