Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - Saviors Love

RUSNAK (on stage - Gerlach, Gerlach) Orest Manolievich [24 VIII (5 IX) 1895, p. Dubovtsy, now Chernivtsi region. USSR - 23 I 1960, Munich] - Ukrainian singer (tenor). In 1924 he graduated from the Prague Conservatory with a degree in singing from E. Fuchs. Improved in Italy (1925). He was a soloist in the opera houses of Konigsberg (1924-26), Chemnitz (1926-28), Graz (1928-30), Berlin (1930-31), Munich (1931-38). Since 1938, Ch. arr. like a chamber singer. He had a voice of a wide range, rare in beauty and strength, and performed in lyric. and drum. the repertoire. Parties: Duke, Manrico, Radames; Richard (Masquerade Ball), Rudolph (Bohemia), Cavaradossi; Arnold (“William Tell” by Rossini), Edgar, Nemorino (“Lucia di Lammermoor”, “Love Drink” by Donizetti), Raul, Vasco da Gama (“Huguenots”, “African” Meyerbeer). With great expressiveness performed Ukrainian. Nar songs and romances of N. V. Lysenko, S. F. Lyudkevich, O. I. Nizhankovsky, D. V. Sichinsky, V. A. Barvinsky and others. He toured the USSR (1930-31; Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye), Austria, Poland, Canada, USA, etc.