Vladimir Kastorsky Les deux grenadiers Schumann HMB 80 Mx 424 s enregistré en novembre 1909
4Vladimir Kastorsky - Les deux grenadiers - Schumann - HMB 80 Mx 424 s enregistré en novembre 1909
.Vladimir Kastorsky (Bass) ( Yaroslavl region 1870 - St. Petersburg 1948)
As a child he sang in a church choir. Then he studied with his cousin A. Kastorsky and took some lessons from an Italian singer Antonio Cotogni. In 1892 he moved to St. Petersburg where he learned his vocal art at the "Free choir class," the charity project of Melnikov. In 1893 he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the course of C. Gabel, who a year later expelled the student for "voiceless and incompetence". Later C. Gabel admitted his error. In 1894 he made his debut at the Opera House of Pskov. Vladimir surved for the operatic stage about 45 years, his repertoire included 35 roles. In 1898—1918 and 1923—1930 he was a soloist of Mariinsky Theatre, and in 1918—1923 of Bolshoi Theatre, performing Ruslan and Susanin ("Ruslan and Ludmila" and " Life for the Tsar" by M.Glinka), Pimen ("Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky), Gremin and Kotchubey ("Eugene Onegin" and "Mazepa" by Tchaikovsky),Miller ("Rusalka" by Dargomyzhsky), Count Almaviva and Leporello ("The Marriage of Figaro" and "Don Giovanni" by Mozart), Vladimir Galitsky ("Prince Igor" by Borodin),Nilakanta ("Lakme" by Delibes). Vladimir Kastorsky was extremely successful in R.Wagner's operas: Wotan ("The Ring of the Nibelung") and Wolfram ("Tannhauser"), among others. In 1907 he organized a vocal quartet to promote Russian folk songs and toured with it in Russia and Europe. In 1907-1908 he participated in Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. The singer was the first performer of parties in Paris: Ruslan ("Ruslan and Ludmila" by Glinka, 1907), Pimen ("Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky, 1908), Prince Yuri Tokmakov ("The Maid of Pskov" and Rimsky-Korsakov, 1909). He also was heard at La Scala (1908), as well as in in Prague, Berlin, Rome, Munich, London, Harbin, Japan, Moscow (Theater Aquarium, Zimin's private Opera), Kiev, Odessa,Tiflis, and many other cities. He taught at Mariinsky Theatre, Leningrad's Art Studio and at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Until the end of life he performed as a chamber singer, performing Glinka, Dargomyzhsky, Mozart, Schubert, Borodin, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Schumann.
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