Background
TOTSKIY, Ivan was born on April 12, 1896.
TOTSKIY, Ivan was born on April 12, 1896.
1925 graduate Kiev Conservatory.
1925-1927 soloist, Khar’kov Opera and Ballet Theater. 1927-1942 soloist, Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. 1943-1945 soloist, Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater, Leningrad.
1946-1957 again at Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. Roles: Taras in Lysenko’s “Taras Bul’ba”. Karas’ in Zaporozhets za Dunayem (A Dnieper Cossack Beyond the Danube).
Pimen in “Boris Godunov". Dosifey in “Khovanshchina”. Ivan the Terrible in Pskovityanka (The Woman of Pskov).
Chub in Noch’ pered Rozhdestvom (The Night Before Christmas). Sobakin in Tsarskaya nevesta (The Bride of the Tsar). Don Basilio in “The Barber of Seville”.
Taras in Kabalevskiy’s Sem’ya Tarasa (Taras’ Family), et cetera