Oleg Bryjak
From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia
Template:Infobox person Oleg Bryjak (Template:Lang-uk, 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 an Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.[3]
Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner when Germanwings Flight 9525 crashed 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]
Notable recordings
- Leoš Janáček: 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).
References
External links
- Obituary at The Independent
- Trauer um Wagner-Sänger / Oleg Bryjak und Maria Radner verunglückt Bayerischer Rundfunk, 25 March 2015 Template:De icon
Template:Portal bar
Template:Authority controlTemplate:Germany-opera-singer-stub
Cite error: <ref> tags exist, but no <references/> tag was found
