Andrij Dobriansky

Andrij Vsevolod Dobriansky (born 1930) is a Ukrainian bass-baritone opera and folk singer who performed with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Dobriansky was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the United States in 1956, where he studied in New York and toured the USA with the Ukrainian Dumka Choir, [cite book |title=The American music handbook |last=Pavlakis |first=Christopher |year=1974 |publisher=Free Press |isbn= |pages=p. 306 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QG4YAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Andrij+Dobriansky%22&dq=%22Andrij+Dobriansky%22&num=100&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-07-03] and performed as a solo artist singing Ukrainian folk songs. [cite news |title=Andrij Dobriansky Brings Songs of Ukrainian Home |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00C16F93A541B7B93C0A91789D95F4C8685F9 |work=The New York Times |date=1968-12-02 |accessdate=2008-07-03 ]

In 1970 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, [cite news |title='Fanciulla' Returns To Met on Feb. 4 With Renata Tebaldi |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E10F73458137A93C5A8178AD85F448785F9 |work=The New York Times |date=1970-01-17 |accessdate=2008-07-03 ] where he had made 905 appearances by January 1996. [ [http://archives.metoperafamily.org/archives/frame.htm Metropolitan Opera Database (archive)] ] [cite news |title=SOUNDS AND VIEWS |url=http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1996/379619.shtml |work=The Ukrainian Weekly |date=1996-09-15 |accessdate=2008-07-03 ] .

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