Off the Record - Oh! Sweet Lorraine

YUNITSKY Yuri Pavlovich [according to updated data, 4 (17) I 1906, Shuya, now Ivanovo Region. - 13 XII 1963, Washington] - Soviet singer (baritone). Failed art.RSFSR (1941). In 1923-25 ​​he studied at the Ivanovo Muses. technical school at E. G. Arkhangelskaya, then settled in Washington. In 1930-41 he took lessons from V.V. Galitsinskaya. In 1925 he made his debut on the stage of the Opera Studio. K. S. Stanislavsky (from 1941 the Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko) as Shchelkalov in the opera Boris Godunov, until 1958 he was a soloist in the same place. Parties: Eugene Onegin; Yeletsky, Figaro; Malatesta (Don Pasquale by Donizetti), Rigoletto; Renato and Montfort (“Masquerade Ball” and “Sicilian Vespers” Verdi), Tsarev (“Semyon Kotko”), Minsky (“Station Warden” Kryukova), Bagration (“Suvorov” Vasilenko), Stepan (“Taras Family”, 2 -I ed .; State Ave. USSR, 1951) and others. In 1941-54 he also led the conc. activity.In 1959-63 the answer. editor chap. Musical editors broadcasting, Art. editor of symphony editorial, opera and chamber music in the same place.