Background
DONETS, Mikhail was born on January 23, 1883 in Kiev.
DONETS, Mikhail was born on January 23, 1883 in Kiev.
Private lessons.
1905-1913 soloist at Zimin Opera Theater, Moscow. 1913-1917 and from 1923 at Kiev Municipal Theater (now Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater). Also appeared at Khar’kov Opera and Ballet Theater and as concert singer.
Roles: Karas' in Gulak-Artemovskiy’s Zaporozhets za Dunayem (A Dnieper Cossack Beyond the Danube). Taras in Taras Bul’ba: the delegate in Lysenko’s Natalka-Poltavka (Natalya from Poltava). Dosifey in Moussorgsky’s Khovanshchina.
Mephistopheles in Gounod’s "Faust”. Boris in Moussorgsky’s Boris Godunov. The Miller in Dargomyzhskiy’s Rusalka, et cetera
Communist Party member from 1940.
