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'''Oleg Bryjak''' ({{lang-uk|Олег Брижак}}, 27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a [[Kazakhstan]]i-German [[bass-baritone]] opera singer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bild.de/regional/duesseldorf/flugzeugabsturz/duesseldorfer-opernsaenger-unter-opfern-40289854.bild.html|title=Düsseldorfer Opernsänger unter den Opfern des Flugzeugabsturzes – Trauernde Angehörige erreichen den Flughafen in Barcelona|work=[[Bild|Bild.de]]|location=Berlin|language=de}}</ref> Born in [[Jezkazgan]], [[Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic|Kazakh SSR]], into an ethnic Ukrainian family,<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/ukrainian/news_in_brief/2015/03/150325_sa_oleg_bryzhak_airbus_accident Посол України підтвердив загибель Олега Брижака у катастрофі Airbus A320], [[BBC Ukrainian]], 25 March 2015. [[Andriy Melnyk (politician)|Andriy Melnyk]], the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, confirmed that Bryjak was ethnically Ukrainian, but did not hold Ukrainian nationality.</ref> he moved to Germany in 1991<ref name=naviny>{{cite web|url=http://naviny.by/rubrics/culture/2015/03/24/ic_news_117_455940/|script-title=ru:В авикатастрофе на юге Франции погиб оперный певец Олег Брияк|work=naviny.by|language=ru}}</ref> to join the [[Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olegbryjak.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=26&lang=ru|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403025919/http://www.olegbryjak.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=26&lang=ru|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2015-04-03|title=Oleg Bryjak – Биографи&#11|author=Administrator|work=olegbryjak.com|language=ru}} </ref> From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the [[Deutsche Oper am Rhein]] in Düsseldorf.<ref name=dw>[http://www.dw.de/%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9-%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%86-%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B3-%D0%B1%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BA-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B1-%D0%B2-%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5-germanwings/a-18340177 Оперный певец Олег Брыжак погиб в авиакатастрофе Germanwings], [[Deutsche Welle]] (in Russian), 24 March 2015.</ref>

Bryjak had been a [[protodeacon]] in an [[Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate|Ukrainian Orthodox]] church in [[Krefeld]].<ref name=naviny/>

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 (opera)|Siegfried]]'' at the [[Gran Teatre del Liceu]] in Barcelona.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-airbus-a320-plane-crash-5394028|title=Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead|author=John Shammas|date=24 March 2015|work=[[Daily Mirror]]|accessdate=24 March 2015|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Garry Humphreys|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/maria-radner-internationally-acclaimed-contralto-who-was-due-to-make-her-bayreuth-festival-debut-later-this-year-10134086.html|title=Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year|work=[[The Independent]]|date=26 March 2015|accessdate=31 March 2015}}</ref>

==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==
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==External links==
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/oleg-bryjak-bassbaritone-acclaimed-for-his-wagner-interpretations-in-particular-the-role-of-the-dwarf-alberich-in-siegfried-10137180.html Obituary] at ''[[The Independent]]''
* [http://www.br.de/radio/br-klassik/sendungen/allegro/wagner-saenger-absturz-opfer-germanwings-bryjak-radner100.html Trauer um Wagner-Sänger / Oleg Bryjak und Maria Radner verunglückt] [[Bayerischer Rundfunk]], 25 March 2015 {{de icon}}

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