Background
PETRUSENKO, Oksana was born on February 5, 1900 in village Balaklcya, Khar’kov Province.
PETRUSENKO, Oksana was born on February 5, 1900 in village Balaklcya, Khar’kov Province.
Studied at Kiev’s Lysenko Musical Drama Institute and under P. Saksaganskiy.
1917-1920 with I. Sagatovskiy’s Touring Theater. From 1923 with P. Saksaganskaya’s company. 1927-1930 at opera theaters in Kazan’, Samara, et cetera
1934-1940 soloist, Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theater, Kiev. Also performed Ukraine folk songs at concerts. Roles: Natalka in Lysenko's “Natalka-Poltavka”.
Odarka in Gulak-Artemovskiy’s Zaporozhets za Dunayem (A Dnieper Cossack Beyond the Danube). Kupava in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snegurochka (The Snow-Maiden). Zemfira in Rachmaninov’s “Alcko”.
Lushka in Dzerzhinskiy’s Podnyataya tselina (Virgin Soil Upturned), et cetera