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Mark Osipovich Reizen, also Reisen or Reyzen (Russian: Марк Осипович Рейзен, 3 July [O.S. 21 June] 1895 November 25, 1992), PAU, was a leading Soviet opera basso singer.

Mark Reizen
Mark Reizen

Life and career


Reizen was born into a Jewish family of mine workers in 1895 at Zaitsevo village in Ekaterinoslav province (now Horlivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine). He had four brothers and a sister, and all were trained in music, playing mandolin, guitar, balalaika and accordion. He served as a soldier in the First World War. He studied engineering at the Kharkiv Politechnic, and also voice at the Kharkiv Conservatory with the Italian professor Federico Bugamelli in 1919–1920. He debuted at the Kharkiv Opera in 1921 as Pimen in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and in 1925 moved to the Mariinsky Theatre in Leningrad. Reizen toured Europe performing in Paris, Berlin, Monte Carlo and London in 1929–1930.

A tall man commanding a strong stage presence, he joined the Bolshoi Theatre in 1930, remaining there as a principal bass until his retirement in 1954. Among his roles were: Ivan Susanin and Ruslan in the two Glinka operas, Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia by Rossini, Mephistopheles in Faust by Gounod, Prince Gremin in Evgeny Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Salieri in Mozart and Salieri and the Viking guest in Sadko by Rimsky-Korsakov, the old gypsy in Aleko by Rachmaninoff, Wotan in Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs, Konchak in Prince Igor by Borodin, Philip II and Procida in Verdi's two French grand operas, and so on. He became a particularly memorable interpreter of Boris and Dosifey in the two greatest operas of Mussorgsky (Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina).

Reizen was awarded the Stalin Prize in 1941, 1949 and 1951.

In 1967 he began teaching, and became a professor at Moscow's Gnessin Institute. He gave an important recital for his 80th birthday, and for his 90th sang Prince Gremin (in Evgeny Onegin) at the Bolshoi in Moscow in July 1985. On both occasions, his voice sounded remarkably preserved.

Reizen died of a stroke in 1992 in Moscow at the age of 97. A number of his recordings are still available on CD, and film clips of his performances also exist.


Quotations


–You sing very well.
–Thank you.
–Why don't you come here more often?
–You see, I sing in Leningrad and only visit here.
–Why not move here and visit there?
–You see, I have a contract there, and an apartment too…
–Perhaps we can do something and find you an apartment here.
The following day and in typical Soviet style, he was surprised by the unannounced visit of an official car with an NKVD agent, who was under orders to take him hunting for an apartment.
This is how Mark Reizen was engaged at the Bolshoi.” (Anecdote, Opera Gems)

(Mark Reizen – Autobiography [Autobiograficheskie Zapisky, Stati i Vospominanya) 2nd edition 1986 pp. 135)


Recordings and discography



References


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Bibliography





На других языках


[de] Mark Ossipowitsch Reisen

Mark Ossipowitsch Reisen (russisch Марк Осипович Рейзен; * 21. Junijul. / 3. Juli 1895greg. in Saizewo, Gouvernement Jekaterinoslaw, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 25. November 1992 in Moskau, Russland) war ein sowjetischer Opernsänger (Bass).
- [en] Mark Reizen

[es] Mark Reizen

Mark Osipovich Reizen (Марк Осипович Рейзен) nació en la villa de Zaitsevo, Ekaterinoslav, Ucrania entonces Imperio ruso el 3 de julio de 1895 y murió en Moscú el 25 de noviembre de 1992, a los 97 años.

[ru] Рейзен, Марк Осипович

Марк О́сипович Ре́йзен (21 июня (3 июля) 1895, с. Зайцево, Екатеринославская губерния, Российская империя — 25 ноября 1992, Москва, Российская Федерация) — советский оперный и камерный певец (бас), педагог.



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