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Osip Petrov
Osip Afanasievich Petrov (, ) was a Ukrainian operatic bass-baritone of great range and renown, whose career centred on St Petersburg.
Biography.
Osip Petrov was born in Yelisavetgrad (now Kropyvnytskyi) in Ukraine, then part of Russia. He started his career by singing in a church chorus. Petrov then worked in Russian provincial theaters (including Poltava, where he worked together with Mikhail Shchepkin).
From 1830 until his death in 1878 he worked for the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.
the Petersburg Imperial theatre, in which the Department of opera was headed by Cavos. Cavos immediately adopted a new opera. Moreover, Cavos himself conducted the orchestra at the premiere of the opera "A Life for the Tsar" December 9 (November 27) 1836.
Both opera with one plot – of Cavos and of Glinka – were included in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Kamenny theater in St. Petersburg for many years simultaneously. Singer Osip Petrov (a pupil of Catterino Cavos) sang the role of Ivan Susanin in both