Osip Petrov

Osip Petrov

Osip Afanasievich Petrov (Russian: Осип Афанасиевич Петров, 15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1806, Elisavetgrad - 11 March [O.S. 27 February] 1878) was a Russian operatic bass-baritone of great range and renown whose career centred on St Petersburg.

He started his career by singing in a church chorus. Petrov then worked in Russian provincial theaters (including Poltava, where he worked together with Mikhail Shchepkin).

His wife was a Russian operatic contralto Anna Vorobyova.

Performance repertoire

He created the following roles:

• Susanin in Catterino Cavos's Ivan Susanin^[1]
• Leporello in Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest
• Susanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar
• Varlaam in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
• Ivan the Terrible in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov
• Prince Gudal in Anton Rubinstein's The Demon
• Oziya in Serov's Judith
• Prince Vladimir in Serov's Rogneda
• Kochubey in Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa
• Neizvestnyi (The Unknown Man) in Verstovsky's Askold's Grave.

Mariinsky Theatre

From 1830 until his death in 1878 he worked for the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. His 52-year career continued until the night before he died.

References

1. ^ Two “Ivan Susanin”, article from Viktor Korshikov’s book (Russian: Виктор Коршиков «Два “Ивана Сусанина”»)

External links

• Biography (Russian)

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Name	Petrov, Osip
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Date of birth	1806
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Date of death	1878
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