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Place of Birth: Siberia Krai, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
About Boris Shtokolov
- Boris Timofeyevich Shtokolov (Russian: ????´? ??????´???? ???´?????; March 19, 1930 — January 6, 2005), was a famous Soviet and Russian singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century. Boris Shtokolov was born in the settlement of Kuzedeyevo in Gorno-Shorsky District of Kuznetsk Okrug in Siberian Krai (now in Novokuznetsky District of Kemerovo Oblast).
- In 1949, he entered the Ural State Conservatory in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), but wanted to become a military pilot.
- Georgy Zhukov, having heard his singing, said: There are many guys like you in aviation, but in opera singing you are unique.
- In 1950 and 1951, he was singing at the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Society before he became a soloist at the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater.
- In 1959, he was invited to the Mariinsky Theater in Leningrad (now St.
- Petersburg) where he gained world fame as a leading soloist from 1959 to 1989.
- At the Mariinsky Theater he sang a great number of roles, such as Ruslan, Don Basilio, Boris Godunov, Ivan Susanin, the title role in Anton Rubinstein's The Demon, Prince Gremin, Mefistofele, and many others. He died on 6 January 2005 in St.
- Petersburg, and was buried at the Literatorskie Mostki of the Volkovo Cemetery. Boris Shtokolov was also a prominent theorist of opera singing and respiration techniques.
- In 1995, he published a book Burn, Burn, My Star: How to Sing.
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