Oles Chishko

Opera, Composer

1895 – 1976

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Who was Oles Chishko?

Oles' Semyenovich Chishko was a Ukrainian and Russian Soviet composer and singer.

Oles' Semyenovich Chishko was born on July 3, 1895. He graduated from the Kharkiv Institute of Music and drama in 1924 and studied composition with Pyotr Ryazanov at the Leningrad Conservatory. Chishko was a soloist in the opera theatres of Kharkiv, Kiev, Odessa and Leningrad. He was also the first performer of the roles of Pierre Bezukhov in "War and Peace" by Sergei Prokofiev, Kobzar in “Taras Bulba” by Lysenko, and Pyotr in “V plenu u yablon” by himself.

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1895
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1976

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on July 23, 2013

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