Anatoliy Solovianenko
Ukrainian singer (1932-1999) · Ukraine · On the map · Musicians · Died at 66
A Ukrainian tenor who logged three decades at Kyiv's national opera house and made it to the Met in New York - one of the Soviet Union's most honored voices, trained in a Donetsk mining town and polished across continents.
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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 eighteen LPs and earned both the People's Artist of the USSR and the Shevchenko National Prize before his death in 1999.
