Petrauskas, Kipras

Kipras Petrauskas was born on November 23 ( December 5 ), 1885 (according to other sources on November 10 ( November 22 ), 1885 ^[2] ) in the village of Tseikinai-Käziai (now Ignalina district of Utena county of Lithuania ) in the organist's family.

He received his first musical lessons from his brother, composer and singer Mikas Petrauskas . At the age of nine, he played in an orchestra organized by his brother. Together with Mikas, he moved to Obyalyay , where he studied organ playing , sang in a church choir, attended elementary school. In 1900 - 1904 he played the organ in Gervyaty , Onushkis, Sventsiany, Dusmenis.

Together with his brother, he participated in the revolutionary movement of 1905-1907 , for which he spent some time in prison in Trakai Prison.

He made his debut on stage in 1906 , in Vilnius, where he performed at the premiere of the melodrama "Birutė" by M. Petrauskas in the role of brother Birutė .

In 1911 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (class of S.I. Gabel , stage mastery by O. Palechek). In the same year he made his debut at the Bolshoi Theater ( Moscow ) in the role of Romeo in the opera Romeo and Juliet S. Gounod . As a student, he also participated in symphony concerts of A. Ziloti . He later improved in vocal art in Rome with Professor E. Rosati ^[3] .

In 1911 - 1920 - soloist of the Mariinsky Theater ( St. Petersburg ) (under the name Piotrovsky), sang in performances with F.I. Chaliapin , L.V. Sobinov , A.V. Nezhdanova . He took part in the performances of the Little Opera in Petrograd , organized by I. Tartakov and the People’s Opera. In the summer of 1920 , he toured at the Mirror Theater of the Hermitage Garden in Moscow.

In 1920 he returned to Lithuania, where he took an active part in the creation (together with composer J. Tallat-Kelpša ) of the Lithuanian national opera house in Kaunas (now the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater ), whose soloist was until 1958 . The singer’s repertoire included about 80 parts. He took part in the productions of many Lithuanian national operas.

He performed in concerts with his brother.

He has toured abroad: Germany (in 1925 and 1928 with F. Chaliapin), Spain , France ( Paris , Grand Opera Theater, 1929 - 1931 ), Sweden , Italy ( Milan , La Scala Theater, 1933 ), Austria , UK , Czech Republic , Belgium and Latin America . In the 1930s , he sang in symphony concerts under the direction of E. Cooper in Amsterdam ( Netherlands ).

In the late 1920s and early 1930s , he recorded on records in Germany and England , and later in the USSR .

Since 1949 he taught at the Lithuanian Conservatory (now the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater ) (Vilnius) (since 1951 - professor ). Among his students are V. Noreika , V. Adamkevičius , E. Saulevichyute .

Member of the Lithuanian Art Creators Association.

Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 2nd (1946-1950) and 4th convocations (1954-1958).

Kipras Petrauskas died in Vilnius on January 17, 1968 . He was buried in Vilnius at the Rasu cemetery.

Family

• Wife - Elyana Piatrauskien ( lit. Elena Žalinkevičaitė-Petrauskienė ; 1909 - 1986 ) - actress, poet, Honored Artist of the Lithuanian SSR (1965).

Petrauskas’s repertoire includes almost all the roles of the classical tenor repertoire, both lyrical and dramatic, as well as parts in Lithuanian national and modern Soviet operas.

• 1911 - Romeo and Juliet by S. Gounod - Romeo
• 1911 - “Orpheus in Hell” by J. Offenbach - Orpheus
• 1911 - The Phantom M.A. Danilevskoy - Licėjistas
• 1911 - Rigoletto by J. Verdi - Duke
• 1912 - The Barber of Seville by J. Rossini - Count of Almaviva
• 1912 - " Madame Butterfly " by J. Puccini - Pinkerton
• 1912 - “ Francesca da Rimini ” E.F. Guide - Paolo
• 1912 - Werther J. Massenet - Werther
• 1913 - " Bohemia " by J. Puccini - Rudolph
• 1915 - Pebble S. Moniuszko - Jontek
• 1916 - “ May Night ” N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov - Levko
• 1916 - “ Faust ” S. Gounod - Faust
• 1916 - Lakme L. Delibes - Gerald
• 1917 - "The Snow Maiden " N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov - Berendey
• 1917 - " Judith " A.N. Serova - Vagoa
• 1917 - The Manon by J. Massenet de Grieux
• 1917 - Mephistopheles A. Boyto - Faust
• 1918 - "Mozart and Salieri" N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov - Mozart
• 1918 - " Orpheus and Eurydice " K.V. Gluka - Orpheus
• 1918 - “Megoe” A.T. Wieniawski - Kuan - on
• 1918 - "Geisha" S. Jones - Katana
• 1920 - La Traviata by J. Verdi - Alfred
• 1921 - “Birute” by M. Petrauskas - brother of Birute
• 1921 - The Demon A.G. Rubinstein - Synodal
• 1922 - The " Pagliacci " by R. Leoncavallo - Canio
• 1923 - " Eugene Onegin " P.I. Tchaikovsky - Lensky
• 1924 - "Carmen" by J. Bizet - Jose
• 1924 - " Longing " by J. Puccini - Cavaradossi
• 1925 - " Country Honor " P. Mascagni - Turrida
• 1925 - The Queen of Spades P.I. Tchaikovsky - Hermann
• 1926 - " Tales of Hoffmann " by J. Offenbach - Hoffmann
• 1926 - The Masquerade Ball by J. Verdi - Richard
• 1926 - The Mignon A. Tomy - Wilhelm
• 1926 - " Lohengrin " R. Wagner - Lohengrin
• 1927 - " Aida " by J. Verdi - Radames
• 1927 - " Zhidovka " F. Halevi - Eleazar
• 1928 - The "Valley" by E. d'Alber - Pedro
• 1928 - " Windsor Pranks " O. Nikolai - Fenton
• 1929 - “ Dubrovsky ” E.F. Directorate - Vladimir
• 1929 - The Troubadour by J. Verdi - Manrico
• 1930 - “ Boris Godunov ” M.P. Mussorgsky - Imposter
• 1930 - “ Tannhauser ” by R. Wagner - Tannhauser
• 1930 - " Andre Chenier " by W. Giordano - Andre Chenier
• 1931 - The Fra Devil D. Ober - Fra Devil
• 1931 - " Pericola " by J. Offenbach - Pekil
• 1931 - " Samson and Delilah " by C. Saint-Saens - Samson
• 1932 - “ The Tale of Tsar Saltan ” N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov - Gvidon
• 1932 - The Huguenots by J. Meyerbeer - Raul
• 1932 - “Louise” G. Charpentier - Julien
• 1932 - "The Cornwall Bells " by R. Planet - Grenishe
• 1933 - Grazhina by J. Karnavicius - Lutauras
• 1934 - " Gypsy Baron " by I. Strauss (son) - Barinkai
• 1935 - “ Prince Igor ” A.P. Borodina - Vladimir Igorevich
• 1936 - “The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia ” N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov - Grishka Kuterma
• 1936 - "Radvila Perkunas" by J. Karnavicius - Janusas
• 1938 - Othello by J. Verdi - Othello
• 1939 - "Egle - the queen of snakes" M. Petrauskas and I. Dambrauskas - Gilvinas
• 1940 - The Quiet Don, I.I. Dzerzhinsky - Grigory Melekhov
• The Golden Cockerel N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov - Gvidon
• " Ruslan and Lyudmila " M.I. Glinka - Boyan
• "Treason" M.M. Ippolitova-Ivanova - Erekle
• “ The Wedding of Figaro ” V.A. Mozart - Gerald

Lithuanian Awards

• Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas III degree ( 1928 ) ^[4]
• Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas II degree ( 1930 )
• Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas I degree ( 1936 )

USSR awards and titles

• People's Artist of the Lithuanian SSR ( 1945 )
• People's Artist of the USSR ( 1950 )
• Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951) - for the performance of the part in the opera performance “Boris Godunov” M.P. Mussorgsky
• Order of Lenin ( 1954 )
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (12/05/1945)
• Medal.

• In 1966 , the Vilnius Television broadcast about the singer “Life on the Stage” was aired.
• In 1971 , K. Petrauskas Museum-Apartment was opened in Kaunas.
• In 1975 , in Vilnius, a monument to the singer (sculptor Gediminas Iokubonis) was erected on the square near the new building of the Lithuanian Opera and Ballet Theater.
• Postage stamps dedicated to K. Petrauskas were issued in the USSR and Lithuania.

• Stamps
•  

  Postage stamp Lithuania, 1995

• Gaudrimas J. From the History of Lithuanian Music, vol. 2, L., 1972.

• Petrauskas Kipras Ionovich // Vocal-encyclopedic dictionary: Bibliography: in 5 volumes / M. S. Agin . - M. , 1991-1994.
• Bus minimos žymaus solisto Kipro Petrausko 125-osios gimimo metinės (lit.)
• CD / KIPRAS PETRAUSKAS - Didysis Lietuvos Tenoras (2CD) (2008) (link unavailable) (lit.)