Igor Morozov

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Igor Morozov

Igor Anatolievich Morozov ( Ukrainian Ігор Анатолійович Морозов / Ihor Anatolijowytsch Morozov ; Russian Игорь Анатольевич Морозов * 1948 in Dnipropetrowsk , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian - Ukrainian opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

As a child, Igor Morozov performed numerous concerts with orchestra, some of which were broadcast on the radio. After finishing school in his hometown, Morozov was accepted at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory . After graduating, he was appointed first baritone to the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater . Two years later he was able to switch to the Moscow Bolshoi Theater , where he sang all the major roles in Italian and Russian in the premiere cast: Eugene Onegin , Lionel ( Tchaikovsky's Die Jungfrau von Orléans ), Jeletzki (Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades), Robert and Eben Haghia (Tchaikovsky's Jolanthe ), Figaro ( Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville ), Andrej Bolkonskij ( Prokofiev's War and Peace ), Ferdinand (Prokofiev's The Engagement in the Monastery ), Germont ( Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata ), Silvio ( Leoncavallos The Bajazzo ). Morosow was a permanent concert partner of the mezzo-soprano Jelena Obraszowa .

Since his debut as Onegin at the Vienna State Opera in 1990, Morosow has been a permanent guest at the largest opera houses in Western Europe and the USA: Teatro alla Scala , Vienna State Opera, Berlin: State Opera Unter den Linden and Deutsche Oper , State Opera Hamburg , State Opera Munich , Opera Cologne , Salzburg Festival and Bregenz Festival . Morosow sang in Amsterdam , Stockholm , Copenhagen , Palermo , Montpellier , Zurich , Basel , at the Houston Grand Opera and at the Boston Festival.

In addition to the classic roles in the operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini and Vincenzo Bellini , Morosow also took on roles in world premieres and works by Dmitrij Shostakovich . He sang the world premiere of Klaus Huber's opera Schwarzerde in Basel, the main role of Kowaljow in Shostakovich's Die Nase in Basel, Shostakovich's 13th symphony “Babi Jar” with Jiri Kout in St. Gallen and the Michelangelo Suite in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam .

In 1991 Morozov was awarded the highest title for artists in Russia , the "Narodni Artist Rossii" (= People's Artist of the USSR ) by Boris Yeltsin . In 2002 he was awarded the Order of St. George by the International Academy of Arts and Sciences "Golden Fortune". In 2007 Woody Allen chose Igor Morozov's interpretation of Iago's dream from Verdi's opera Otello for his Hollywood film Match Point .

Artistic concern

As a half-Ukrainian, Igor Morozov is keen to make Ukrainian opera and classical composers such as Mikola Lysenko, Platon Mayboroda, Anatolij Kos-Anatolski and Semion Gulak-Artemovski known outside of his native country. He also performs Russian composers: Anton Rubinstein ( Morosow recorded the aria of the demon from the opera of the same name and the aria of Vindex from the opera Nero for the state radio in Moscow), Georgi Sviridov (with whom he premiered the cycle U menja otez - krestjanin / My father is a farmer based on poems by Sergei Jessenin ), Arthur Lourié (premieres in Basel as part of the Lourié Festival), Reinhold Glière .

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SURNAME Morozov, Igor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morozov, Igor Anatolyevich (full name); Morosow, Ihor Anatolijowytsch; Морозов, Ігор Анатолійович (Ukrainian); Морозов, Игорь Анатольевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian opera singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Dnipropetrovsk , Ukrainian SSR