Description

VASILY DAMAEV (APRIL 7 (19), 1878 OTRADNAJA (A COSSACK VILLAGE, NOW ON THE EDGE OF KRASNODAR) – OCTOBER 11, 1932 MOSCOW)

 

 

 

 

Born in 1878, he sang in a church choir as a boy. From 1903 to 1905 he studied at the Moscow school for music and drama. In 1906 he joined the Zimin Opera, where he prepared his roles with P. Olenin and Emil Cooper. He made his debut as the False Dmitry in Boris Godunov, and he remained with the company until 1920, with a repertory of more than 50 roles. On the invitation of Serge Diaghilev, he sang the False Dmitry, Andrej Khovansky (Khovanshchina), and Mikhail Tucha (Ivan the Terrible) in the 1909, 1911 and 1913 seasons of Russian music in Paris and London. After singing with several Moscow opera companies, including the Bolshoi opera, (in December, 1919, at the Zimin Opera, he sang the False Dmitry in casts headed by Fedor Chaliapin), he became the director of the Aquarium Theatre. He died in 1932. He was called the Russian Tamagno, because of the power of his voice.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Aida (Verdi) Celeste Aida 022305 252af Gramophone, Moskva November 1912

Boheme (Puccini) Che gelida manina 022196 2181c Gramophone, Moskva 1911-02-06

Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) Fountain Duet (w. Druzjakina) 024068 251af Gramophone, Moskva 12-11-21

Carmen (Bizet) La fleur 022347 2949c Gramophone, Moskva December 1913

Cherevichki (Chajkovskij) Slyshit li, devitsa, serdtse tvoe 816 Rss816 Lyrophon, Moskva 1910

Dobrynja Nikitin (Grechaninov) Rastsvetali v pole tsvetiki 815 Rss815 Lyrophon, Moskva 1910

Dobrynya Nikitich (Grechaninov) Flowers were blooming 4-22087 14202b Gramophone, Moskva 1910-02-04

Fanciulla del West (Puccini) Ch’ella mi creda 022348 2944c Gramophone, Moskva 1913-12-07

Halka (Moniuszko) The wind wails 022350 2946c Gramophone, Moskva December 1913

Kak mne bolno (Rakhmaninov) 820 Rss820 Lyrophon, Moskva 1910

May Night (Rimsky-Korsakov) Boys, have you heard (w. chorus) 4-22249 15357b Gramophone, Moskva 1911-02-10

May night (Rimsky-Korsakov) Duet (w. Katulskaja) 024092 2952c Gramophone, Moskva 1913-12-09

May night (Rimsky-Korsakov) Is she asleep (w. Petrova-Zvantseva) 024038 1922½c Gramophone, Moskva 1910-01-25

May night (Rimsky-Korsakov) Sleep, My Beauty 022142 1920c Gramophone, Moskva 1910-01-24

Mazeppa (Tchaikovsky) Send me to the Tzar (w. chorus) 4-22246 15359b Gramophone, Moskva 1911-02-10

Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) Am stillen Herd 4-22063x 14201b Gramophone, Moskva 1910-02-04

Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Wagner) Preislied 022193 2177c Gramophone, Moskva 1911-02-01

Neron (Rubinstein) Invan, invan 022354 2948c Gramophone, Moskva 1913-12-07

Oprichnik (Tchaikovsky) I swear before God G 4-22284 16111 Gramophone, Moskva 1911-10-26

Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) Vesti la giubba 022325 248af Gramophone, Moskva 1911-10-25