Background
ARSENKO, Arsen was born on March 15, 1903.
ARSENKO, Arsen was born on March 15, 1903.
1928 graduate Khar’kov Institute of Music and Drama.
1928 began stage career in Khar’kov with itinerant opera and ballet theater. From 1930 worked at various Soviet opera theaters, including Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Bolshoy Theater (1936-1937). Irom 1937 soloist, Belorussian Opera and Ballet Theater in Minsk.
Roles: Kuz’mich in Bogatyryov’s V pushchakh poles’ya (In the Woods of Polessie). Audrey in Turenkov’s Tsvetok schast'ya (Flower of Happiness). Yeletskiy in Pikovaya dama (Queen of Spades).
Figaro in ”The Barber of Seville”. Zhermon, Onegin, et cetera Very popular as singer of chamber works.