Background
OZEROV, Nikolay was born on April 3, 1887 in village Spas-Uteshen’ye Ryazan’ Province.
OZEROV, Nikolay was born on April 3, 1887 in village Spas-Uteshen’ye Ryazan’ Province.
1910 graduate Law Faculty, Moscow University. 1913 graduate Opera courses, Russian Music Social.
From 1912 with touring opera company. 1918 at Moscow Soviet Theater. 1919-1924 at Music Studio, Moscow Academy Arts Theater.
1920-1946 soloist, Bolshoy Theater. 1947 instructor, from 1948 professor, Moscow Conservatory. Roles: Sobinin and Finn in “Ivan Susanin” and “Ruslan and Ludmilla”.
Don Juan in Dargomyzhskiy’s Kamennyy gost' (The Stone Guest). The Pretender, Golitsyn and Gritsko in Moussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” “Khovanshchina” and Sorochinskaya yarmarka (Sorochintsy Fair);Andrey in “Mazepa”. Raoul in “The Huguenots”.
Samson in Saint Saens’ “Samson and Delilah". German in Tchaikovsky’s Pikovuya dama (The Queen of Spades). Rhadames in Verdi’s “Aida”.
Grishka Kuter’ina in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Skazamye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden FevTonia), et cetera