Alexander Shemansky
Alexander Leonidovich Shemansky (Russian: Александр Леонидович Шеманский; 11 May 1900, Irkutsk — 1 April 1976, Los Angeles) was a Russian opera singer (tenor).[1]
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 Alexander Shemansky as Canio in the opera "Pagliacci". Russian opera at the Railway Assembly. Harbin, 1920's. |
He studied at the Irkutsk Cadet Corps; in the Civil War he served as a second lieutenant in the Russian Far East. He emigrated to Harbin, studied singing at the Osipova-Zarzhevskoy. In exile, he was a soloist at the Opera Harbin Railway Assembly, toured with the Italian Opera Company "Capri" in Asian countries. In Harbin, in 1936, played a concert together with Feodor Chaliapin. In the 1960s he moved to the United States, where he taught singing in Los Angeles.
References
[edit]- ^ Aleksandr Vasilʹev - Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility who Fled the ... 2000 - Page 127 "Right: Alexander Shemansky, a dramatic tenor with the Harbin opera, in the role of Canio in I Pagliacci, 1930s."
External links
[edit]- Biographical pointer (in Russian)
- Center for Genealogical Research Archived 2013-02-15 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- Alexander Shemansky (in English)