Osip Petrov

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Osip Afanasievich Petrov (Russian: , 15 November [O.S. 3 November] 1807 - 11 March [O.S. 27 February] 1878) was a Russian operatic bass-baritone of great range and renown.

He started his career by singing in a church chorus, then worked in Russian provincial theaters (including Poltava there he worked together with Mikhail Shchepkin). Since 1830 until his death in 1878 he worked for the Mariinsky Theatre.

He created the following roles:

Sussanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar
Neizvestnyi (The Unknown Man) in Verstovsky's Askold's Grave
Varlaam in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
Ivan the Terrible in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Maid of Pskov
Kochubey in Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa
Oziya in Alexander Serov's Judith
Prince Vladimir in Serov's Rogneda
Prince Gudal in Anton Rubinstein's The Demon, and
Leporello in Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest.

His 52-year career continued until the night before he died.

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