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 (Russian: 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]

June 17, 1999 awarded the Order of Friendship.[12]

Discography

Albums

Singles

External links

Notes and References

  1. 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.
  2. G.M. Pishchayev // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yuri Keldysh, 1978. – vol. 4
  3. Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
  4. G.M. Pishchayev // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yuri Keldysh, 1978. – vol. 4
  5. Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
  6. Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
  7. Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
  8. Web site: Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо. 2016-01-11 . 2016-02-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev.
  9. 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 .
  10. [Vladimir Molchanov|Владимир Молчанов]
  11. Web site: Кинофильм «Зеркало для героя» режиссуры Владимира Хотиненко. Серенада из оперы Бизе «Пертская красавица» . songkino.ru . Russian . 2020-08-20 .
  12. https://archive.today/20180914225340/http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/13994 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 17 июня 1999 года № 786 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации»