Ershov I.V., (1867-1943), singer

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ERSHOV Ivan Vasilievich (1867-1943), opera singer (dramatic tenor), chamber singer, director, and teacher. People's artist of the USSR in 1938 and Ph.D. (Arts History) in 1941. He graduated from St. Petersburg's Conservatory in 1893 as a student of S. I. Gabel. He was, periodically, a soloist of Mariinsky Theatre until 1929, making his debut in C. Gounod's Faust and Romeo and Juliet. One of the most prominent representatives of the Russian vocal school, he was also gifted as a drama actor, performing his best in roles of Sobinin and Finn in M. I. Glinka's Ivan Susanin and Ruslan and Lyudmila, respectively; Grishka Kuterma, Sadko, and Mikhailo Tucha in N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov's Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia, Sadko, and Maid of Pskov; and Tahnhaeuser, Tristan, Lohengrin, and Siegfreid in R. Wagner's operas. He sang about 55 tenor parts, including Jose in J. Bizet's Carmen, Othello in G. Verdi's Othello, Johann von Leiden in G. Meyerbeer's Prophet, Samson in C. Saint-Saens's Samson and Delilah, and Orest in S. I. Taneev's Oresteia. A professor of Petrograd (Leningard) Conservatory from 1916 to 1941, he took part in founding the Conservatory's Opera Studio (today, the Opera and Ballet Theatre) to become its art director and produced a number of performances. He lived at 4 Gorokhovaya Street in 1931-41 (memorial plaque). Evacuated, he died in Tashkent, his remains were reburied in the Necropolis of Artists in 1956. Ershov's name was given to a class in the Conservatory.

Reference: Иван Васильевич Ершов: Статьи. Воспоминания. Письма. Л.; М., 1966; Гозенпуд А. А. Иван Ершов: Жизнь и сценич. деятельность: Исслед. Л., 1986.

E. V. Tretyakova. Bizet Georges
Ershov Ivan Vasilievich
Gabel Stanislav Ivanovich
Glinka Mikhail Ivanovich
Gounod Charles
Meyerbeer Giacomo
Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolay Andreevich
Saint-Saens Camille
Taneev Sergey Ivanovich
Verdi Giuseppe
Wagner Richard
Gorokhovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 4
Иван Васильевич Ершов: Статьи. Воспоминания. Письма. Л.; М., 1966
Гозенпуд А. А. Иван Ершов: Жизнь и сценич. деятельность: Исслед. Л., 1986 Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory
Mariinsky Theatre
State Opera and Ballet Theatre of the St. Petersburg Conservatory
Necropolis of Artists