Anatoliy Solovianenko

Born into a mining family in Donetsk in 1932, Solovianenko studied singing from 1950 while earning an engineering degree from Donetsk Polytechnic in 1954. He started performing locally, then became soloist at Kyiv's Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theatre — a post he held for thirty years. He performed at Expo 67 in Montreal, sang twelve performances at the Metropolitan Opera in Kyiv, and during the 1977–78 season appeared as a soloist at the New York Metropolitan Opera. He also toured with the Alexandrov Ensemble in the UK in 1988, singing "Kalinka" and other standards. He recorded…