Lev sibiryakov biography
His real name was Spivak Leib....
Lev Sibiryakov Pimens Monolog from Modest Mussorgskys Boris Godunov
In this prologue to Boris Godunov, I have selected Lev Sibiryakov to sing the monk Pimen.
Polish opera singer.
It is an extraordinary performance, especially when you take into account the it was recording acoustically between and Sibiryakov was a great, great bass, equal in many ways to Chaliapin.
Sibiryakov studied in Milan and made some guest appearances in Italy before returning to Russia, where he made his début in Singing first in the provinces, he established himself as a leading bass at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, where his roles included Wotan, made remarkable by his ability to penetrate any orchestral forte without forcing, becoming an element of the orchestral sound.
He sang Don Basilio in Barbiere (in Russian) with the Boston Opera Company in and Marcel in Les Huguenots at Covent Garden in Back in Russia, he continued for some years, leaving for Western Europe after the Revolution. In he sang in Aida