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rare pre-war French Polydor issue of two famous singers of the Bolshoi Theater

Maxim Mikhailov bass , Armenian Shara Talian baritone

566.531 A
(PO1-3721)  
russian bass with orchestra
Are you well, Prince?  (Opera «Prince Igor», act 2) (Alexander Borodin, lyrics by Alexander Borodin, Vladimir Stasov, based on: : Poem «The Tale of Igor's Campaign»)
Maxim Mikhailov, acc. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Conductor Alexander Orlov 1936
Moscow Polydor 566.531 

566.531 B
(PO2-3721)  
russian baritone with orchestra
Prince Eletzky’s aria - I love you  (Opera «Queen of Spades», act 2) (Pyotr Tchaikovsky, lyrics by Modest Tchaikovsky, based on: Alexander Pushkin: The story «The Queen of Spades»)
Shara Talian, acc. Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Conductor M.Mauntsev 1936
Moscow Polydor 566.531

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Talyan Shara Mkrtychevich

Talyan Shara Mkrtychevich [16 (28) 7.1893, Tbilisi - 11/7/1965, Yerevan], Soviet singer (tenor, baritone from there), People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1939). Ashug's son. He studied singing with G. Syuni, as well as at the Petrograd Conservatory (1916–18, with S. I. Gabel). He performed in opera, operetta troupes and ashug ensembles (often their organizer). One of the founders of the Armenian Opera and Ballet Theatre, in 1933-1954 its soloist.

    Possessing a European singing culture, she created original images in Russian, Western European and Soviet operas (he was the first performer in the society of Armenian operas). Performed as a concert singer. He was also a connoisseur and master performer of folk, gusan and ashug songs. Compiler and editor (together with M. Aghayan) of the collections of songs by Sayat-Nova (1946, 1963) and Jivani (1955). Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR of the 1st and 2nd convocations. State Prize of the USSR (1946). Awarded the Order of Lenin and 2 other orders.


Maxim Dormidontovich Mikhailov (Russian:  25 August [O.S. 13 August] 1893 – Moscow 30 March 1971) was a Russian bass.[1] His son, Igor Mikhailov (1920-1983) was the bass of the Bolshoi for several decades. His grandson Maxim Mikhailov (1962–2018) was also a bass singer.[2]

Mikhailov was born in Koltsovka, Kazan Governorate. He had no musical training beyond that as an archdeacon in the Russian Orthodox Church, but was a physical phenomenon with enormous depth and volume. He was directly recruited as a singer by the Soviet authorities, his beard was shaved but he did not abdicate his curacy, and sent to study in preparation for the Bolshoi Theatre. He became Joseph Stalin's favorite singer and most famous interpreter of the role of Ivan Susanin in the reworked "patriotic" Soviet version of the opera of that name, formerly and since better known as Mikhail Glinka's A Life for the Tsar. Mikhailov sang Susanin nearly 400 times from his first performance of the role in 1939 to his last stage appearance in 1957. He also was frequently invited by Stalin to sing and drink with him late at night in Moscow Kremlin.

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