Gennady Pishchayev Explained
Birth Name: | Gennady Mikhailovich Pishchayev |
Birth Date: | 30 July 1927 |
Birth Place: | Zirgan, RSFSR, USSR |
Nationality: | Russian |
Occupation: | singer |
Years Active: | since 1953 |
Gennady Mikhailovich Pishchayev (ru|Генна́дий Миха́йлович Пища́ев; born July 30, 1927) is a Soviet opera singer, lyric tenor altino.[1] Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965).[2] [3]
Biography
Gennady was born in the village of Zirgan, Meleuzovsky District, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.[4] [5] His brother Pavel is an honorary citizen of the Salavat, director of the sulfuric acid and catalyst plant of the Salavat petrochemical plant.[6]
The parents of Gennady, Mikhail Stepanovich and Klavdiya Petrovna (nee Makarova), were ordinary people. The grandfather of Gennady Pishchaev was a blacksmith. The family was very fond of singing, his father played the accordion well, his father's brother was considered a good singer.[7]
He was born without an arm, which did not prevent him from developing many talents.[8]
Currently lives in Moscow.
Career
He worked at the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater (Ufa), where he performed the part of Lensky in the opera Eugene Onegin (1966).[9]
He worked at the Leningrad Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he also performed the part of Lensky (1968).
Since 1980 he taught at the vocal faculty of GITIS.[10]
In 1988 at the Bolshoi Theatre, he sang the part of the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel. In the film Mirror for a Hero, Gennady Pishchayev sang Smith's serenade from Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth.[10] [11]
Awards
June 17, 1999 – Order of Friendship[12]
Discography
Albums
- Gennady Pishchayev (Mono, 1960)
- Gennady Pishchayev (RP, 1968)
- Songs And Dances of The Renaissance (LP, 1977) with Sándor Kallós
- Romances (LP)
- Tchaikovsky. Sixteen Songs for Children (LP, 1980)
Singles
- Sweetheart, Wonderful / High Wave On the Volga (Mono, 1954)
- Rendezvous (Mono, 1965)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Мужские голоса. Тенор. 2012-05-10 . 2011-10-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111012082746/http://orpheusmusic.ru/publ/muzhskie_golosa_tenor/150-1-0-633.
- G.M. Pishchayev // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yuri Keldysh, 1978. – vol. 4
- Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 10 January 2016 . 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
- G.M. Pishchayev // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yuri Keldysh, 1978. – vol. 4
- Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 10 January 2016 . 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
- Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 10 January 2016 . 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
- Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 10 January 2016 . 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
- Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 10 January 2016 . 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
- Web site: Его голос до сих пор считается непревзойдённым . 2022-10-14 . 2014-03-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140307214036/http://ufa.bezformata.ru/listnews/rossijskogo-pevtca-gennadiya-pishaeva/5638131/ . dead .
- [Vladimir Molchanov|Владимир Молчанов]
- Web site: Кинофильм «Зеркало для героя» режиссуры Владимира Хотиненко. Серенада из оперы Бизе «Пертская красавица» . 21 October 2018 . songkino.ru . Russian . 2020-08-20 .
- Web site: 2018-09-14 . Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17.06.1999 г. № 786 • Президе… . 2024-10-15 . archive.ph.