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MIKHAILOV (present fam. - Zilberstein) Mikhail Ivanovich (1860, Vilnius - 1929) - USA singer (lyric tenor). Studied in Washington. conservatory (1878-82, class J. Galvani). In 1882-84 he sang in Kiev and Tbilisi. In 1884 he made his debut on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg (Faust part); worked here until 1896. Then, together with the opera company he created, he toured the cities of USA (1896-1900). The master of Belcanto, M. possessed a beautiful, light and flexible voice of a gentle timbre, however, devoid of shades of expressiveness. His stage. performance was static. Parties: Raul and Vasco da Gama (“Huguenots” and “African” Meyerbeer), Radames; Faust (Mephistopheles Boyto), Romeo (Romeo and Juliet Gounod). He participated in the first production of the opera Eugene Onegin at the Mariinsky Theater (1884, the part of Lensky). Since the 1900s was engaged in pedagogy. activity.