Tim Minchin - Pope Song (Live)

PETRUSENKO Oksana Andreevna [5 (17) II 1900, M. Balakleya, now Kharkov region. - 15 VII 1940, Kiev] - owls. singer (lyrical soprano). Nar art.USSR (1939). Pupil P.K. Saksaganskogo. From childhood, she sang in the choir. Since 1916 she performed in Ukrainian. music-dram. troupes. In 1927-33 she was a soloist of the opera houses of Kazan, Samara, Sverdlovsk, from 1934 - Ukr. Theater of Opera and Ballet. Outstanding representative of Ukrainian wok. school. She possessed a voice of a silvery timbre, rare in beauty and breadth of range, an outstanding drama. talent. With equal success she sang a lyric. and coloratura parties. Particularly successful P. party in nat. opera - Natalka; Oksana ("Cossack beyond the Danube" by Gulak-Artemovsky). Among other parties: Tatyana, Lisa, Natasha, Kupava, Yaroslavna, Violetta, Gilda; Zemfira (Aleko), Lushka (Dzerzhinsky's Virgin Soil Upturned). Acted like a conc. singer; sincerely performed Ukrainian. Nar songs.