Boris Christoff |

ʻO Boris Christoff

Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna hana mua ma 1946 ma Roma (ka ʻāpana o Collen ma La bohème). Mai ka makahiki 1947, ua ho'okani 'o ia ma La Scala (debut as Pimen), i ka makahiki ho'okahi āna i hana ai ma ke kono a Dobrovein e like me Boris Godunov. I ka makahiki 1949 ua hana ʻo ia i ka ʻāpana o Dositheus maanei. I ka makahiki 1949, hana 'o ia no ka manawa mua ma Covent Garden (ka hapa o Boris). Ua hīmeni ʻo ia i nā ʻāpana o ka repertoire Lūkini ma La Scala (Konchak, 1951; Ivan Susanin, 1959; etc.). Ua hana ʻo ia i ke kuleana o Procida ma Verdi's Sicilian Vespers (1951, Florence). I ka makahiki 1958, hīmeni ʻo ia me ka lanakila nui i ka ʻāpana o Philip II ma Covent Garden, i ka makahiki 1960 ua hoʻokani ʻo ia ma ka Salzburg Festival.

ʻO Christov kekahi o nā bass nui loa o ke kenekulia 20. Ma waena o nā ʻāpana ʻo Mephistopheles (Gounod a me Boito), Rocco ma Fidelio, Gurnemanz ma Parsifal a me nā mea ʻē aʻe. Aia ma waena o nā hoʻopaʻa ʻana nā ʻāpana o Boris, Pimen, Varlaam (conductor Dobrovein, EMI), Philip II (conductor Santini, EMI) a me nā mea ʻē aʻe.

E. Tsoodokov