Felix Antonovich Oshustovich ( 1870 -?) - Russian opera singer (lyric-dramatic tenor ) and vocal teacher. Possessed a strong and even voice in all registers of a wide range, the singer's repertoire included over 50 parts.
| Oshustovich Felix Antonovich | |
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 F. A. Oshustovich as Jose (“Carmen”) | |
| basic information | |
| Date of Birth | 1870 |
| Place of Birth | Odessa Russian empire |
| Date of death | is unknown |
| A country |  Russian empire |
| Professions | opera singer , music teacher |
| Singing voice | tenor |
| Instruments | |
| Genres | opera |
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Biography
Born in 1870 in Odessa.
After graduating from Odessa drawing school, he worked as a retoucher. Then he studied singing at the Kiev College of Music under I. Kravtsov . He made his debut in 1890 on the stage of the Kiev Opera (Opera Partnership under the direction of I. Pryanishnikov ) in the part of Manrico (“ Troubadour ”). He later performed in various cities of the Russian Empire - Kharkov (1891, 1894), Krasnoyarsk (1892), Vilno (1892–1894), Minsk (1893–1894), Odessa (1892), Moscow (Private Russian Opera, 1896; People’s House , 1906), Irkutsk (1900-1901), Kazan (1899, 1901-1902), Zhytomyr (1900), Perm (1900, 1903-1904, entreprise A. A. Kravchenko), Saratov (1902), Yekaterinburg (1904). The art of the singer was highly appreciated by P.I. Tchaikovsky and N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov .
Oshustovich - the first performer of the roles of Kashchei (“Kashchei the Immortal”) [1] , Guslyar (“The Legend of the City of Great Kitezh and the Svetoyar Lake”), Old Kobzar (“Terrible Revenge”). His partners were N. Zabela-Vrubel , I. Pryanishnikov , I. Tartakov , M. Tsybushchenko , V. Eigen , L. Yakovlev ; sang under the direction of V. Zeleny, M. Ippolitov-Ivanov , N. Kochetov , I. Pribik , V. Bitch .
Also engaged in teaching activities. He taught in Kazan at the Free School of Music and the School of Music, where he was a professor. Among his students are M. D. Mikhailov and S. Kh. Rakhmatullin [2] .
In 1909, Oshustovich performed in Moscow at the Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography, where he performed several songs of convicts and tramps.
Data on the life and work of F. A. Oshustovich after the October Revolution are not available. It is known that in 1894 in Belarus he had a daughter, Elizabeth (1894-1969), a Soviet theater artist. [3]
Bibliography
- Pruzhansky A.M. Domestic Singers. 1750-1917: Dictionary: in 2 hours Part 1. Moscow: Soviet composer, 1991.