Igor Morozov

Background

Igor Morozov was born in Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine and started singing while still a child with professional orchestras.

Education

Immediately after having finished his studies, young Morozov received a contract as a leading baritone to the Kirov Opera (today"s Mariinsky Theater) and changed two years later to the leading opera house of the Soviet Union: the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

Career

These concerts were broadcast by radio across the Soviet Union. At the age of 16, he left his hometown to study at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. Here he sang the great parts of Russian and Italian repertoire such as the title role in Eugene Onegin, Lionel in the The Maid of Orleans (with Makvala Kasrashvili in the title role), Yeletzki in The Queen of Spades, Robert in Iolanta all by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov"s Misghir in The Snow Maiden (also recorded as Civil Defense), Andrey Bolkonsky in Prokofiev"s War and Peace, Conte di Luna in Il trovatore, Gérmont in Louisiana traviata, Rodrigo in Don Carlo all by Verdi, Sharpless in Puccini"s Madama Butterfly and Silvio in Leoncavallos I Pagliacci (on Digital Video Disc with Galina Kalinina and Vladimir Atlantov).

Morozov also sang many rare and new operas like Rodion Shchedrin"s Dead Souls: the main part of Chichikov.

He has become a well known singer for different works of Shostakovitch (Thirteenth Symphony, Babi Yar, Michelangelo Suite, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District). In Germany, Austria and Switzerland his name is usually spelled "Igor Morosow".

Woody Allen chose his interpretation of "Iago"s Dream" from Verdi"s Otello for his film Match Point. Morozov is also very busy singing works by composers from Russia and the Ukraine that are little known out of their home country: Georgi Sviridov (among others: "My father is a farmer" recorded with the composer as pianist), Anton Rubinstein, Mikola Lysenko, Arthur Lourié, Semyon Gulak-Artemovsky.

Achievements

• In 1991 Igor Morozov was awarded by Boris Yeltsin with the highest title for artists in Russia, the title "Narodni Artist Rossii" (= People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics).

Connections

partners:

Pinchas Steinberg

Partner:

Mark Reizen

teacher:

Elena Obraztsova