Ivan Kozlovskyi

Ivan Semyonovich Kozlovsky (21 December 1993) was a Soviet lyric tenor and one of the most well known stars of Russian opera, as well a producer and director of his own opera company, and longtime teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. According to Stephen Kotkin, he was Joseph Stalin's favorite singer.

Biography

Ivan Kozlovsky was born into a peasant family in the village of Marianivka near Bila Tserkva, the Kyiv Governorate (now Vasylkiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine).

In English: (1992). Guide de L'Opéra, Fayard. (page 427) Ardoin, John (1995). "Ivan Kozlovsky, A Voice from Behind the Curtain", in Opera Quarterly 11. (pages 95–102)

In Russian: Kuznetsova, A. (Кузнецова, А.) (1964). People's Artist (Народный артист), Art. Sletov, V. (Слетов, В.) (1945). I. Kozlovsky (И. Козловский), Art. Polianovsky, H. (Поляновский, Г.) (1945). Ivan Semyonovitch Kozlovsky (Иван Семёнович Козловский), Art. Hroshyeva, E. (Грошева, Е.) (1960). 40 Years on the Stage of the Opera (Сорок лет на оперной сцене), Soviet Music.

In Ukrainian: Bulat, T. (Булат, Т.) (1980). Ukrainian Folk Songs and Romances in the Repertoire of I.S. Kozlovsky (Українські народні пісні та романси в репертуарі І.С.Козловського), Folk Works and Ethnography (Народна творчість та етнографія) No. 3. Lysenko, I. A dictionary of Ukrainian singers - Словник Співаків України - Kyiv, 1997