Pavlo Koshyts ( uk, Павло Олексійович Кошиць; russian: Павел Алексеевич Кошиц; real last name is Poray-Koshytsi (
:uk:Порай-Кошиці); 14 December 1863 in
Kiev Governorate,
Russian Empire
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– 2 March 1904 in
Moscow
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) was a Russian
opera
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singer (
tenor
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).
He studied at the
Kiev Theological Academy
The Kiev Theological Academy (1819—1919) was one of the oldest higher educational institution of the Russian Orthodox Church, situated in Kyiv, then in the Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine). It was considered as the most senior one among simila ...
, then at the
Moscow Conservatory (a teacher:
Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky
Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky (russian: Фёдор Петрович Комиссаржевский) (1832 – 14 March 1905) was a Russian opera singer and teacher of voice and stagecraft. A leading tenor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Peter ...
). At the end of 1886 Pavel Koshetz went to study in
Milan
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(Italy). In 1886 - 1889 he sang in opera theatres in Italy, Greece, Catalonia and the Americas. Then he returned to Russia and worked in different cities.
In 1893 Pavel Koshetz was invited at the
Bolshoi Theatre
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. He became a performer for more than 30 operatic roles.
Gradually, the singer began to lose his voice. Theater administration moved him to the teaching work, but in 1904 he was fired. It became for him a huge psychological blow. Pavel Koshetz committed suicide on 2 March 1904.
His daughter
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was at this time 12 years. She decided to become an opera singer.
After some time, in memory of Pavel Koshetz
Leonid Sobinov organized two concerts, which involved famous singers partners of Pavel Koshetz.
External links
ru: Music Encyclopediaru: Russian singers. 1750 - 1917ru: Vocal encyclopedia
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1863 births
1904 suicides
Russian operatic tenors
19th-century male opera singers from the Russian Empire
People from Cherkasy Oblast
Singers from Moscow
Suicides in the Russian Empire
1904 deaths