Gennady Pishchayev
{{Short description|Russian singer}}
{{Infobox person
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Gennady Mikhailovich Pishchayev
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1927|07|30|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Zirgan, RSFSR, USSR
| nationality = Russian
| occupation = singer
| years_active = since 1953
| spouse =
| children =
}}
Gennady Mikhailovich Pishchayev ({{langx|ru|Генна́дий Миха́йлович Пища́ев}}; born July 30, 1927) is a Soviet opera singer, lyric tenor altino.{{Cite web |url=http://orpheusmusic.ru/publ/muzhskie_golosa_tenor/150-1-0-633 |title=Мужские голоса. Тенор|access-date=2012-05-10 |archive-date=2011-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012082746/http://orpheusmusic.ru/publ/muzhskie_golosa_tenor/150-1-0-633}} Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965).G.M. Pishchayev // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yuri Keldysh, 1978. – vol. 4{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev |title=Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо|date=10 January 2016 |access-date=2016-01-11 |archive-date=2016-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev}}
Biography
Gennady was born in the village of Zirgan, Meleuzovsky District, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.G.M. Pishchayev // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yuri Keldysh, 1978. – vol. 4{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev |title=Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо|date=10 January 2016 |access-date=2016-01-11 |archive-date=2016-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev}} His brother Pavel is an honorary citizen of the Salavat, director of the sulfuric acid and catalyst plant of the Salavat petrochemical plant.{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev |title=Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо|date=10 January 2016 |access-date=2016-01-11 |archive-date=2016-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev}}
The parents of Gennady, Mikhail Stepanovich and Klavdiya Petrovna (nee Makarova), were ordinary people. The grandfather of Gennady Pishchaev was a blacksmith. The family was very fond of singing, his father played the accordion well, his father's brother was considered a good singer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev |title=Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо|date=10 January 2016 |access-date=2016-01-11 |archive-date=2016-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev}}
He was born without an arm, which did not prevent him from developing many talents.{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev |title=Геннадий Пищаев. Радио во Благо|date=10 January 2016 |access-date=2016-01-11 |archive-date=2016-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215094421/http://www.radioblago.ru/vremyakultury/gennadiy-pishaev}}
Career
He worked at the Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater (Ufa), where he performed the part of Lensky in the opera Eugene Onegin (1966).{{Cite web |url=http://ufa.bezformata.ru/listnews/rossijskogo-pevtca-gennadiya-pishaeva/5638131/ |title=Его голос до сих пор считается непревзойдённым |access-date=2022-10-14 |archive-date=2014-03-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307214036/http://ufa.bezformata.ru/listnews/rossijskogo-pevtca-gennadiya-pishaeva/5638131/ |url-status=dead }}
He worked at the Leningrad Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he also performed the part of Lensky (1968).
Since 1980 he taught at the vocal faculty of GITIS.Владимир Молчанов. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140307200409/http://www.muzcentrum.ru/orfeus/programs/issue687/ Геннадий Пищаев в программе «Рандеву с дилетантом»]
In 1988 at the Bolshoi Theatre, he sang the part of the Astrologer in Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel. In the film Mirror for a Hero, Gennady Pishchayev sang Smith's serenade from Bizet's opera La jolie fille de Perth.{{cite web
|url=https://songkino.ru/songs/zerkalo.html
|title=Кинофильм «Зеркало для героя» режиссуры Владимира Хотиненко. Серенада из оперы Бизе «Пертская красавица»
|last=
|first=
|date=21 October 2018
|website=songkino.ru
|publisher=
|language=Russian
|access-date=2020-08-20
|quote=}}
Awards
Discography
=Albums=
- Gennady Pishchayev (Mono, 1960)
- Gennady Pishchayev (RP, 1968)
- Songs And Dances of The Renaissance (LP, 1977) with Sándor Kallós
- Romances (LP)
- Tchaikovsky. Sixteen Songs for Children (LP, 1980)
=Singles=
- Sweetheart, Wonderful / High Wave On the Volga (Mono, 1954)
- Rendezvous (Mono, 1965)
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.muzcentrum.ru/orpheusradio/programs/nothereevenings/19384-gennadij-pishchaev-navernoe-ya-schastlivyj-chelovek-potomu-chto-pel-tu-muzyku-kotoraya-nravilas Геннадий Пищаев: «Наверное, я счастливый человек, потому что пел ту музыку, которая нравилась»]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDLBOGuhbzw Gennady Pishchayev. Je Crois Entendre Encore]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pishchayev, Gennady}}
Category:People from Bashkortostan