Oleg Bryjak Explained

Oleg Bryjak
Native Name:Ukrainian: Олег Брижак
Native Name Lang:uk
Birth Date:27 October 1960
Birth Place:Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Prads-Haute-Bléone, France
Occupation:Opera singer
Employer:Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Oleg Bryjak (Ukrainian: Олег Брижак, 27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer.[1] Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family,[2] he moved to Germany in 1991[3] to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.[4] From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.[5]

Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.[3]

Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner and 148 others when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed by its co-pilot in Prads-Haute-Bléone, France, during their return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.[6] [7] [8] [9]

Notable recordings

Káťa Kabanová – Karita Mattila (Katia), Bryjak (Dikoj), Chorus and Orquesta del Teatro Real; Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Robert Carsen (director). Recorded at Teatro Real, Madrid, December 2008. Fra Musica (Harmonia Mundi) FRA003 (DVD).

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Düsseldorfer Opernsänger unter den Opfern des Flugzeugabsturzes – Trauernde Angehörige erreichen den Flughafen in Barcelona. Bild.de. 24 March 2015. Berlin. de.
  2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/news_in_brief/2015/03/150325_sa_oleg_bryzhak_airbus_accident Посол України підтвердив загибель Олега Брижака у катастрофі Airbus A320
  3. Web site: http://naviny.by/rubrics/culture/2015/03/24/ic_news_117_455940/. ru:В авикатастрофе на юге Франции погиб оперный певец Олег Брияк. naviny.by. ru.
  4. Web site: Oleg Bryjak – Биографи&#11. https://web.archive.org/web/20150403025919/http://www.olegbryjak.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=26&lang=ru. dead. 2015-04-03. Administrator. olegbryjak.com. ru.
  5. http://www.dw.de/%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86-%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3-%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B1-%D0%B2-%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5-germanwings/a-18340177 Оперный певец Олег Брыжак погиб в авиакатастрофе Germanwings
  6. Web site: Shammas. John. 24 March 2015. Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead. 24 March 2015. Daily Mirror. London.
  7. Web site: Humphreys. Garry. 26 March 2015. Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year. 31 March 2015. The Independent.
  8. News: Connolly . Kate . 2015-04-17 . Germanwings memorial service: relatives of victims 'united in pain' . 2024-02-20 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  9. Web site: Germanwings pilot intentionally crashes plane, killing 150 people . 2024-02-20 . HISTORY . en.

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