Wassyl Slipak
Wassyl Jaroslawowytsch Slipak ( Ukrainian Василь Ярославович Сліпак ; born December 20, 1974 in Lviv , Ukrainian SSR ; † June 29, 2016 in Luhanske , Bachmut district , Ukraine ) was a Ukrainian opera singer ( baritone ).
Life
Wassyl Slipak completed his education at the Lyssenko Music Academy in Lviv in 1997 and then lived in France until he returned to Ukraine in 2014. There he worked as a soloist at the Paris National Opera and at the Bastille Opera House in Paris .
In 2011 he won the award for the best male performer at the Armel Opera Festival in Szeged, Hungary for his rendering of death in Viktor Ullmann's opera The Emperor of Atlantis .
With the Euromaidan he returned to Ukraine and took an active part in events on the Majdan in Kiev and in benefit concerts. From 2015 he volunteered in the fighting in eastern Ukraine . He was shot by a sniper during an attack in the Luhanske - Debaltseve region on June 29, 2016 at around 6 a.m. He was buried on July 1, 2016 in the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv.
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Honors
The Patriarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Kiev Patriarchate , Filaret Denyssenko , he was the medal in September 2015 for the victims and the love for Ukraine awarded. Ukrainian medal for bravery he was awarded posthumously on 30 June 2016 and was on 20 February 2017 for his extraordinary courage and heroism in the defense of national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine by the President of Ukraine posthumously the highest honorary title of Ukraine " Held of Ukraine ”.
Web links
- Article on the death of Wassyl Slipak in the Washington Post on July 1, 2016 (English)
- ESDF opera. SLIPAK, Wassyl (bass-baritone * Ukraine)
- The Wassyl Slipak Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ukrainian Opera Singer Killed While Fighting In Eastern Ukraine in Radio Free Europe from June 30, 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017 (English)
- ^ Ukrainian opera singer Wassyl Slipak died in Donbass on krinform.de on June 29, 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017
- ↑ Wassyl Slipak, who left the Paris Opera for the war in Ukraine, dies with 41 articles in The New York Times on June 30, 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017 (English)
- ^ The Emperor of Atlantis - the Best Performance of the Opera Festival in Szeged! on the Krakow Opera website, accessed March 8, 2017.
- ↑ Biography Vasyl Slipak on rbc.ua from 29 June 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Grave of Honor №76 ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv
- ↑ Riesen-Geist ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in Cultura-media from June 30, 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 280/2016 of June 30, 2016; accessed on March 7, 2017 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 42/2017 of February 20, 2017; accessed on March 7, 2017 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Slipak, Wassyl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slipak, Wassyl Jaroslawowytsch (full name); Сліпак, Василь Ярославович (Ukrainian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ukrainian opera singer (baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th December 1974 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv , Ukrainian SSR |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 2016 |
| Place of death | Luhanske , Bachmut Raion , Ukraine |