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Boris Christoff

Waqala ukubonakala ngo-1946 eRoma (ingxenye yeCollen eLa bohème). Kusukela ngo-1947 wenza eLa Scala (ukuqala njengoPimen), ngawo lowo nyaka wenza ngokumenywa kukaDobrovein njengoBoris Godunov. Ngo-1949 wenza ingxenye yeDositheus lapha. Ngo-1949, wadlala okokuqala eCovent Garden (ingxenye yeBoris). Ucule izingxenye ze-repertoire yaseRussia eLa Scala (Konchak, 1951; Ivan Susanin, 1959; njll.). Udlale indima kaProcida kuVerdi's Sicilian Vespers (1951, Florence). Ngo-1958 wacula ngempumelelo enkulu ingxenye kaPhilip II eCovent Garden, ngo-1960 wayicula eSalzburg Festival.

I-Christov ingenye yezisekelo ezinkulu zekhulu lama-20. Phakathi kwezingxenye kukhona iMephistopheles (Gounod noBoito), Rocco in Fidelio, Gurnemanz in Parsifal nezinye. Phakathi kokurekhodiwe kukhona izingxenye zikaBoris, Pimen, Varlaam (conductor Dobrovein, EMI), Philip II (conductor Santini, EMI) nabanye.

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