Bogomir Korsov

Bogomír Bogomirowitsch Korsov, (Russian Богомир Богомирович Корсов, also: Готфрид Готфридович Корсов, Gottfried Gottfriedowitsch Korsov, actually: Готфрид Геринг, Gottfried Goering; * 1845 in Saint Petersburg, † 1920 in Tbilisi) was a Russian opera singer (baritone ).

The son of a German -born physician studied with Luigi Piccioli at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and then in Milan with Giovanni Corsi (hence his stage name ). After his studies, he made his debut as an opera singer at the theater in Turin.

In 1869 he was accepted in St. Petersburg at the Mariinsky Theatre (Russian Мариинский театр ). At the same time, he sang regularly at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. He left the opera stage in 1905.

His repertoire included:

  • Rigoletto in Rigoletto ( Giuseppe Verdi)
  • Iago in Otello (Verdi)
  • Germont in La traviata (Verdi)
  • Boris in Boris Godunov ( Mussorgsky )
  • Peter in The enemy's power ( Alexander Serov )
  • Mazeppa in Mazeppa ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1884)
  • Devil In The Slippers ( Tchaikovsky, 1887)
  • Demon in the demon ( Anton Rubinstein )
  • Mizgir in Snegurochka ( Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov )
  • Aleko Aleko in ( Sergei Rachmaninoff, 1893).

His wife Alexandra Krutikova was a Russian Contraltistin.

Swell

  • " Русская Музыкальная Газета ", 1905, № 3 - 4
  • Opera singer
  • Baritone
  • Russian
  • Born in 1845
  • Died in 1920
  • Man
Boris Godunov (opera) Mazeppa (opera) Aleko (Rachmaninoff)
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