Arthur Eisen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian actor and opera singer
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Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
About Arthur Eisen
- Arthur Arturovich Eisen (Russian: ????? ????????? ?????), (8 June 1927, in Moscow – 26 February 2008, in Moscow), was a bass-baritone soloist.
- Eisen was a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, Honoured Artist of Russia (1956), Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971), People's Artist of the USSR (1976), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1988).
- He was born into a family of Latvian revolutionaries, and his family was also musical; his father was a violinist.
- After leaving school in 1944 he joined the Shchukin Theatre School at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
- He studied with future stars, and his singing teacher had been famous in the past: N.Popovoy-Narutovich.
- He left college in 1948 and joined a youth literary reading group.
- On a performing tour in the Ukraine he sang, making their tour a hit.
- Back in Moscow he spent a year at Gnessin State Musical College.
- He then attended Moscow Conservatory and in 1955, a year before graduating, he won the gold medal at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Warsaw. While studying at the Moscow Conservatory he became a soloist for the Alexandrov Ensemble 1949-1956.
- This involved lessons at the Conservatory, exams and rehearsals, performances and concert tours with the choir in the USSR, foreign tours and mandatory daily rehearsals with an accompanist.
- He was also preparing for big solo performances at major concert halls in Moscow.
- He became well-known and often appeared on radio.
- Following this he gained fame on the international opera circuit after a successful 1956 debut as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville.
- He was praised in the American, British and Japanese press.
- From 1956 to 1996, he was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre, singing major roles.
- With the Alexandrov Ensemble he recorded: Elegy, Oh No John (1956), Cold Waves Lapping (1956), Black Raven duet with N.A.
- Abramov (1956), four unknown solos (1956),Song of the Volga Boatmen , .
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