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A series of great early Opera performances: From 1902 G&Ts to 40s wartime German records:

Two early recordings of Great Bass Boris Gmyrya

 

Russian Bass with Orchestra
Susanin’s aria  - They guess the truth .... My dawn will come (???? ???????? - ???? ?????? .... ?? ???????,??? ????) (Opera «Ivan Susanin(A Life for the Tsar)», act 4) (Mikhail Glinka, lyrics by Egor Rosen, Sergey Gorodetsky)

Boris Godunov Entrance: I have attained the highest power Act II

 

 

Boris Gmyrya, acc. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Conductor Alexander Melik-Pashaev 1949
Mosc

Dolgoigrayusshchaya 8" 78 rpm record

Condition:

NEAR MINT , plays very quiet

A CHOICE COPY

 

Borys Romanovich Hmyria (Ukrainian: ????? ????????? ?????; Russian: ????? ????????? ?????; sometimes spelt as Gmyrya; born 1903 in Lebedyn—died 1969 in Kiev), PAU, was a Ukrainian basso cantante singer of opera and art song.

During World War II, he stayed in Nazi-occupied Poltava where he performed for the Germans. This kind of behavior was considered to be collaboration with enemy by the Soviet authorities, and Hmyria would have been imprisoned and executed[1] were it not for Joseph Stalin's intervention. Hmyria's partner, Valentina Ishchenko, was not so lucky and was exiled to Vorkuta.

A friend of Dmitry Shostakovich, Hmyria was asked by the composer to participate in the premiere of his Thirteenth Symphony as lead soloist. Hmyria refused for fear of political repercussions.[2]

 

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