Bogomir Korsov
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Bogomir Bogomirovich Korsov, (also known as Gothfrid Gothfridovich Korsov, real name Gothfrid Gering) (1845, St Petersburg – 1920, Tbilisi) was a Russian baritone opera singer.
His father was a doctor. He studied first at St. Petersburg College and then architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 1864. He studied singing in St. Petersburg with Luigi Piccioli and then in Milan with Giovanni Corsi (hence his stage surname). He made his debut at the Turin Theatre.
In 1869 he was accepted at the Imperial Opera in St Petersburg. During the same period, he sang periodically at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and moved on to perform there regularly in 1882. He left the opera stage in 1905.
Among his roles were:
- Rigoletto in Rigoletto by Verdi;
- Iago in Otello by Verdi;
- Germont in La traviata by Verdi;
- Boris in Boris Godunov by Modest Musorgsky;
- Peter in The Power of the Fiend by Alexander Serov;
- Mazeppa in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, 1884;
- Devil in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Cherevichki, 1887;
- Demon in Nikolai Rubinsteins Demon;
- Mizgir in The Snow Maiden by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
- Aleko in Rachmaninoff's Aleko.
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[Russian Musical Newspaper] "Русская Музыкальная Газета", 1905, № 3 - 4.
