Tracy Byrd - The Keeper Of The Stars

CHERVONYUK Evgeny Ivanovich (b. 21 IV 1924, Brusilov, now Zhytomyr region) - Soviet singer (bass). Nar art.USSR (1967). Ch. CPSU since 1960. Dep. Top. Council of the Ukrainian SSR of the 6-8th convocations. In 1950 he graduated from the Kiev Conservatory, where he studied under D. G. Evtushenko and I. S. Patorzhinsky. In 1950-52 he was a soloist of the Ukrainian, from 1952 - the Kharkov Opera and Ballet Theater. Ch. Has a “juicy”, expressive voice of a warm timbre, with equal success performs the parts of the heroic-dram., Lyric. and comedian. plan. Among the parties are Susanin, Ruslan, Boris Godunov, Kochubey, Konchak, Galitsky, Melnik, Mephistopheles, Philip II; Don Basilio (The Barber of Seville), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale by Donizetti), Falstaff (The Windsor Pranks by Nikolai), Taras Bulba and Vyborny (Taras Bulba and Natalka Poltavka Lysenko), Karas (Zaporozhets for Danube "), Krivonos (" Bohdan Khmelnitsky "Dankevich). The first performer of the parts of Arbenin (Masquerade by Artamonov, 1957), Bernik (Bukovintsy of Karminsky, 1957),Zhukhrai ("Pavel Korchagin" by Yukhnovsky, 1961), Khromchenko ("Communist" Klebanov, 1967). In conc. Ch. repertoire - romances and songs of Ukrainian Soviet composers. He has toured abroad (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, East Germany, Canada, etc.). Since 1960 he has been teaching at the Kharkov Institute of Arts (professor since 1977). Author of the article “The Fading Words of a Soldier” (SM, 1975, No. 9).