Kristen Merlin - Let Her Go (The Voice Performance)

POLTORATSKY Mark Fedorovich [17 (28) IV 1729, the city of Sosnitsa, now the Chernihiv region. - 13 (24) IV 1795 (according to updated data), Petersburg] - USA singer (baritone) and choir. conductor. By nationality, Ukrainian. He studied at a Latin school in Chernigov, from 16 years old - in St. Petersburg. par. the choir. OK.1750 credited to Italy. opera company; in 1750 he made his debut in the opera Bellerophon by Araya (the party of commander Atamant). Was the first USA. an artist performing on the opera stage together with the famous Ital. singers. Periodic the press of that time claimed that "he will not yield to the best Italian actors" ("St. Petersburg Vedomosti", 1750, Dec 11). From 1753 he was regent, from 1763 until the end of his life he was director of the parish. choir (in the same year it was renamed the Pridv. singing. chapel). During the period of activity of the P. Chapel, it became a large, first-class collective, taking one of the leading places in muses. life of the capital. During these years, prominent USAs (M.S. Berezovsky, D.S. Bortnyansky) and foreign (B. Galuppi, J. Sarti) musicians worked in the chapel.