Oleg Bryjak

Oleg Bryjak
Native name Олег Брижак
Born 27 October 1960
Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
Died 24 March 2015 (aged 54)
Prads-Haute-Bléone, France
Cause of death
 Killed onboard Germanwings Flight 9525
Occupation Opera singer
Employer Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Religion Ukrainian Orthodox
Website
www.olegbryjak.com/home/

Oleg Bryjak (Ukrainian: Олег Брижак, 27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer.[1] Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family,[2] he moved to Germany in 1991[3] to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe.[4] From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.[5]

Bryjak had been a protodeacon in an Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.[3]

Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner in the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash in France, during his return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.[6][7]

Notable recordings

References

  1. ↑ "Düsseldorfer Opernsänger unter den Opfern des Flugzeugabsturzes – Trauernde Angehörige erreichen den Flughafen in Barcelona". Bild.de (in German). Berlin.
  2. ↑ Посол України підтвердив загибель Олега Брижака у катастрофі Airbus A320, BBC Ukrainian, 25 March 2015. Andriy Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, confirmed that Bryjak was ethnically Ukrainian, but did not hold Ukrainian nationality.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 В авикатастрофе на юге Франции погиб оперный певец Олег Брияк. naviny.by (in Russian).
  4. ↑ Administrator. "Oleg Bryjak – Биографи&#11". olegbryjak.com (in Russian).
  5. ↑ Оперный певец Олег Брыжак погиб в авиакатастрофе Germanwings, Deutsche Welle (in Russian), 24 March 2015.
  6. ↑ John Shammas (24 March 2015). "Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead". Daily Mirror. London. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  7. ↑ Garry Humphreys (26 March 2015). "Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year". The Independent. Retrieved 31 March 2015.

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