Oksana Petrussenko

Oksana Andrijiwna Petrussenko on a Ukrainian postage stamp

Oksana Andrijiwna Petrussenko even Oxana Andreevna Petrushenko , Ukrainian Оксана Андріївна Петрусенко , actually Ksenija Andrijiwna Borodawkina , Ukrainian Ксенія Андріївна Бородавкіна February (5 ^jul. / 17th February  1900 ^greg. In Balakliia , Kharkov Governorate , Russian Empire - 15. July 1940 in Kiev , Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Petrussenko trained her voice from 1916. Her career began in Kazan in 1927 . Then she was in Samara and Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg ). In 1934 she went to the Taras Shevchenko Opera House in Kiev.

There she sang such roles as "Yaroslavna" in Borodin's Prince Igor , "Oxana" in Tchaikovsky's slippers , the title character in the Ukrainian Singspiel Natalya Poltawka , "Kupawa" in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden , "Zemfira" in Rachmaninov's Aleko , "Natasha" in Dargomyschskis Russalka , “Gilda” in Verdi's Rigoletto and “Violetta” in La traviata . She died in Kiev in 1940 and was buried there in the Baikowe Cemetery .

Russian and Ukrainian folk and art songs were also part of her repertoire.

Honors

Petrussenko received numerous honors, including the title of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR awarded in 1939 and the Badge of Honor of the Soviet Union . In 2010, on the occasion of her 110th birthday , the Ukrainian National Bank issued a five hryvnia commemorative coin with her likeness.

literature

• KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 2292, ISBN 3-907820-70-3

Web links

• Oxana Andrejewna Petruschenko at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography of Oksana Petrussenko on kiev-necropol.narod.ru ; accessed on November 8, 2019 (Ukrainian)
2. ^ Website of the National Bank of Ukraine ; accessed on June 4, 2016 (Ukrainian)