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]
Oleg Bryjak | |
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Олег Брижак | |
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| Born | 27 October 1960 Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union |
| Died | 24 March 2015 (aged 54) Prads-Haute-Bléone, France |
| Occupation | Opera singer |
| Employer | Deutsche Oper am Rhein |
Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.[3]
Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner and 148 others when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed by its co-pilot in Prads-Haute-Bléone, France, during their return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.[6][7][8][9]
Notable recordings
edit- Leoš Janáček: Káťa Kabanová – Karita Mattila (Katia), Bryjak (Dikoj), Chorus and Orquesta del Teatro Real; Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Robert Carsen (director). Recorded at Teatro Real, Madrid, December 2008. Fra Musica (Harmonia Mundi) FRA003 (DVD).
References
edit- ^ "Düsseldorfer Opernsänger unter den Opfern des Flugzeugabsturzes – Trauernde Angehörige erreichen den Flughafen in Barcelona". Bild.de (in German). Berlin. 24 March 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Administrator. "Oleg Bryjak – Биографи". olegbryjak.com (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2015-04-03.
- ^ Оперный певец Олег Брыжак погиб в авиакатастрофе Germanwings, Deutsche Welle (in Russian), 24 March 2015.
- ^ Shammas, John (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.
- ^ Humphreys, Garry (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.
- ^ Connolly, Kate (2015-04-17). "Germanwings memorial service: relatives of victims 'united in pain'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
- ^ "Germanwings pilot intentionally crashes plane, killing 150 people". HISTORY. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
External links
edit- Obituary at The Independent
- Trauer um Wagner-Sänger / Oleg Bryjak und Maria Radner verunglückt Bayerischer Rundfunk, 25 March 2015 (in German)
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