Description

POLIKARP ORLOV (KIROVOGRAD, 1864 – ?)

 

 

 

 

The real name of this forgotten Russian bass-baritone was Polikarp Davidovich Kulchinsky. He was born into a priest’s family.

From 1890, Orlov appeared on opera stages in Kharkov (under impresario A. A. Tsereteli, 1899-1902), St. Petersburg (Private Russian Opera, Mariinsky Theatre 1902-1903, National House 1907-1908), Odessa (under impresario I. Grekov, 1892-1893), Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre 1894-1900, S. Zimin’s Opera 1909), Rostov-on-Don (1900), Elisavetgrad (1905), Smolensk (1907), Ekaterinburg (Company of Opera Singers, 1909), Pyatigorsk (1910), and Tomsk and Irkutsk (1914).

In Odessa, he created the role of Surin in Tchaikovsky’s Pique Dame. From 1914, Orlov lived in Kiev.

 

Chronology of some appearances

 

1892-1893 Odessa Opera House

1894-1900 Moscow Bolshoi Theatre

1899-1902 Kharkov Opera House

1902-1903 St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre

1907-1908 St. Petersburg National House

1909 Moscow S. Zimin’s Opera House

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

1. Crucifix (Faure) (w. Michailova) G&T 24088 354z G&T, St Petersburg1902?
2. Dawn (Tchaikovsky) (w. Michailova) 24091 359z G&T, St Petersburg 1902
3. Demon (Rubinstein): O’er the airy ocean G&T 22028 203z G&T, St Petersburg 1902?
4. Demon (Rubinstein) Do not weep, child 22022 204z G&T, St Petersburg 1902
5. Demon (Rubinstein) I am he whom you called 22023 206z G&T, St Petersburg 1902
6. Don Juan (Napravnik): Serenad of Don Juan 22030 207z G&T, St Petersburg 1902?
7. Rigoletto (Verdi) Piangi, piangi, fanciulla (w. Michailova) 24089 356z G&T, St Petersburg 1902
8. Ermak (Dobrovolsky) Zonophone X-2-62141 St Petersburg 1905
9. Guarda che bianca luna (Campana) (w. Michailova) G&T 24087 352z G&T, St Petersburg 1902?
10. Ich liebe dich (Grieg) Zonophone 62174 1906
11. Novgorod (Deutsch): The time flew G&T 22046 256z G&T, St Petersburg 1902?
12. Novgorod (Deutsch) 2-22769 2884L G&T, St Petersburg 1905
13. Ouvre tes yeux bleus (Massenet) 27400 Pathé, St Petersburg 1912
14. Pique Dame (Tchaikovsky) Darling maidens Zonophone 62173 1906
15. Ruslan and Lyudmila (Glinka): O field, field G&T 22029 205z G&T, St Petersburg 1902?
16. Wanderers Nachtlied (Rubinstein) (w. Michailova) G&T 24090 358z G&T, St Petersburg 1902?
17. Tannhäuser (Wagner) O du mein holder Abendstern 22033 235z G&T, St Petersburg 1902
18. When the heart (Yakovlev) (w. Labinsky) 24097 G&T, St Petersburg 1902