Bogomir Bogomirovich Korsov, (also known as Gotfrid Gotfridovich Korsov, real name Gottfried Göring) (3 March 1843 in
St Petersburg – 1920 in
Tbilisi
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) was a Russian
baritone
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opera
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singer.
Korsov studied first at St. Petersburg College and then architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1864. He studied singing in St. Petersburg with
Luigi Piccioli and then in
Milan
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with Giovanni Corsi (hence his stage surname). He made his debut at the
Turin
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Theatre.
In 1869 he was accepted at the Imperial Opera in St Petersburg. During the same period, he sang periodically at the
Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and moved on to perform there regularly in 1882. Korsov left the opera stage in 1905.
Korsov's wife was a famous singer (
contralto
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The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare, similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to ...
) .
Among his roles were:
*Rigoletto in ''
Rigoletto'' (
Giuseppe Verdi
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)
*Iago in ''
Otello
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'' (Verdi)
*Germont in ''
La traviata'' (Verdi)
*Boris in ''
Boris Godunov'' (
Modest Mussorgsky
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)
*Peter in ''
The Power of the Fiend'' (
Alexander Serov)
*The title role in ''
Mazeppa'' (
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1884)
*Devil in ''
Cherevichki'' (Tchaikovsky, 1887)
*Demon in ''
The Demon'' (
Anton Rubinstein)
*Mizgir in ''
The Snow Maiden'' (
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
*created the title role in ''
Aleko'' (
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff; in Russian pre-revolutionary script. (28 March 1943) was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and Conducting, conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a compos ...
, 1893).
Bibliography
ussian Musical Newspaper"", 1905, № 3 - 4.
External links
Mirslovarei (Russian)
1845 births
1920 deaths
Russian operatic baritones
Musicians from Saint Petersburg
19th-century male opera singers from the Russian Empire
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