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NIKOLAI ROSTOVSKY Opera Tenor imprinted visiting card

NIKOLAI ROSTOVSKY Opera Tenor imprinted visiting card

$ 79.2

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  • Condition: mint condition
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  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Russian Federation
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    Description

    Imprinted unused visiting card of the great pre-Revolution Russian-Jewish tenor. (2.5" x 4") in pristine condition.
    Nikolai Rostovsky (1873-1949) Russian tenor
    He was born in the
    Don Cossack Region
    of Russian to a Jewish merchant family. His real name was Nohim Abramovich Frumson.  He went to medical school at the Imperial University of St. Vladimir in Kiev graduating with a degree in dentistry and set himself up as a dentist.  On the side he studied singing at the Musical College in Rostov-on-Don with the tenor Yevgeny Ryadnov.
    He made his stage debut in 1902 at the Mariinsky as Eleazar in "La Juive".  The Imperial opera was sent to Paris for the Summer and he decided to stay, studying with baritone Paul Lehri and the famous singing pedagogue Giovanni Sbrillia whilst there.  He also studied fencing for a Professor Lemory to better his stage craft.
    He returned to Russia in 1904 where he sung with the Kiev Opera for a year and then in 1905 sung with the
    St. Petersburg People's
    Opera for the next season.  He received a contract with the Bolshoi in 1907 where he sung as an un-baptized Jew for two years, a rare occurence.
    In 1909 he was a soloist at the Kazan Opera
    for the season.  From 1911 to 1920 he sung with the Imperial Opera in St. Petersburg as an un-baptized Jew.  In addition to Russianb toursm, he sung at the San Carlos Theatre in Lison and the Royal Opera at Covent Garden.
    Rostovsky created the role of
    Vsevolod
    in Rimsky's "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh" at the Bolshoi in 1908.  He also was the first Walther von Stolzing in the Russian premiere of "Die Meistersinger" at the Mariinsky in 1914.
    There are records of Rostovsky on Gramophon, Zonofone, Columbia, Pathe and a few smaller labels.
    He was the founder and the first director of the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Music School
    which was founded in 1918.
    A scarce carte de visite!
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