Paul Plishka

Paul Plishka (born August 28, 1941) is a Ukrainian-American opera singer.

Mr Plishka comes from Old Forge, Pennsylvania; his parents were American-born children of Ukrainian immigrants. He studied at Montclair State College and with Armen Boyajian (also the pedagogue of Marisa Galvany and fellow basso Samuel Ramey), and made his operatic debut with the Patterson Lyric Opera, in 1961.

Plishka made his formal debut with the Metropolitan Opera as the Monk in "La Gioconda", in 1967. He became of the company's leading basses, and has appeared in many other theatres, including the Teatro alla Scala (debut in "La damnation de Faust", 1974).

Abridged discography

* Puccini: "Tosca" (L.Price, Domingo, Milnes; Mehta, 1972)
* Donizetti: "Anna Bolena" (Sills, Verrett, Burrows; Rudel, 1972)
* Bellini: "I puritani" (Sills, Gedda, L.Quilico; Rudel, 1973)
* Bellini: "Norma" (Sills, Verrett, di Giuseppe; Levine, 1973)
* Gounod: "Faust" (Caballé, Aragall; Lombard, 1976)
* Massenet: "Le Cid" (Bumbry, Domingo; Queler, 1976) [live]
* Puccini: "Turandot" (Caballé, Freni, Carreras; Lombard, 1977)
* Verdi: "Otello" (Scotto, Domingo, Milnes; Levine, 1978)
* Bellini: "Norma" (Scotto, Troyanos, Giacomini; Levine, 1979)
* Puccini: "La bohème" (Scotto, Neblett, Kraus, Milnes; Levine, 1979)
* Verdi: "La forza del destino" (Freni, Domingo, Zancanaro; Muti, 1986)
* Mussourgsky: "Boris Godounov" (Vishnevskaya, Raimondi; Rostropovich, 1987)
* Puccini: "La bohème" (Réaux, Hadley, Hampson; Bernstein, 1988)
* "À Bordeaux" [Verdi/Moussorgsky] (Lombard, 1990)
* Verdi: "Luisa Miller" (Millo, Quivar, Domingo; Levine, 1991)
* Mozart: "Le nozze di Figaro" (Te Kanawa, Upshaw; Levine, 1992)
* "Sings Songs of Ukraine" (Hrynkiv, 1992)
* "Christmas with Paul Plishka" (Erikson, 1995)
* Stravinsky: "The Rake's Progress" (McNair, Bostridge; Ozawa, c1996)

Abridged videography

* Puccini: "La bohème" (Scotto, Niska, Pavarotti, Wixell; Levine, Melano, 1977) [live]
* Rossini: "La cenerentola" (von Stade, Araiza; Abbado, Ponnelle, 1981)
* Donizetti: "Lucia di Lammermoor" (Sutherland, Kraus, Elvíra; Bonynge, Donnell, 1982) [live]
* Berlioz: "Les troyens" (Norman, Troyanos, Domingo; Levine, Melano, 1983) [live]
* Verdi: "Simon Boccanegra" (Tomowa-Sintow, Milnes; Levine, Capobianco, 1984) [live]
* Puccini: "Turandot" (Marton, Domingo; Levine, Zeffirelli, 1987) [live]
* Verdi: "Luisa Miller" (J.Anderson; Arena, Lassalle, 1988) [live]
* Verdi: "Falstaff" (Freni, Horne; Levine, Zeffirelli/Mills, 1992) [live]
* Verdi: "Stiffelio" (Sweet, Domingo; Levine, del Monaco, 1993) [live]

References

* "The Metropolitan Opera Encyclopedia", edited by David Hamilton, Simon and Schuster, 1987. ISBN 0-671-61732-X

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOnTCy9fqJg] YouTube: Paul Plishka in an excerpt from "Don Carlos", 1980.