Biography
Gennady Piskunov - Opera singer, about the biography and family of which is known. Even the year of birth of bass is the subject of disputes.Childhood and youth
Most sources report that the future People's Artist of Russia was born in August of the first post-war year. However, there are information that the gene was born in 1939.
Piskunov came to the Moscow Children's Music Theater in 1966, after the end of Hitis, watched before that in the cult spots, having worked out in his youth illuminator in the puppet theater and debuting as an actor at Saratov and Tambov staged.
Mentors of Gennady at the Institute were the director Boris Pokrovsky and singer-baritone Peter Selivanov, among the students of which Lev Leshchenko and Vladimir Vinokur. The photo of Piskunova has been preserved with the founder of the first children's musical theater of Natalie Sats.
Music and films
Many years of work in the brainchild of Sats, the rich voice and dramatic range of Gennady Venediktovich allowed us to fill the repertoire of the singer with diverse roles - from Boris Godunov in the Musician Music Troops in the Musicle "Musicle". In the image of a gray predator, Piskunov also appeared in the play "Wolf and Seven Kozdyat", and in the image of crowned persons - in the "King Lira", the "tale of Tsar Saltan" and "love for three oranges". In the debut opera Sergey Rakhmaninov "Aleko" vocalist sang a party as a capital hero and an old gypsy.Unfortunately, movies used little artistic and vocal data Gennady Venediktovich. Piskunova's filmography, consists of a single picture - the musical "Tsarevna-Frog", filmed in 2000 by the director Boris Blank together with the cinematographers of Japan. The singer participated in the television films "History of Operetta" and children's radio broadcasts.
Over the years of the life of Piskunov, the highest artistic awards and titles - Leonid Brezhnev assigned a vocalist of the Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Boris Yeltsin - People's Artist of the Russian Federation, and Vladimir Putin awarded Gennady Venediktovich in 2003 by the Order of Friendship.
Personal life
Personal life Opera soloist preferred to hold behind the curtain. Colleagues characterize Gennady Venediktovich as a mandatory and responsible person who served as a model of attitudes towards the artistic profession.
Death
Gennady Venediktovich died on January 5, 2020 in the first hospital named after Nikolai Pirogov. The cause of the death of the actor is not offended. The funeral of the singer was held after 3 days in the Khovanskaya Cemetery of Moscow, the place of restoring the actors Zhanna Prokhorenko and Elza Lugase, intelligence officers Mikhail and Elizabeth Mukasy, Politics Alexei Swan, who died in April 2019 from internal hemorrhage.Filmography
- 2000 - "Tsarevna Frog"
Repertoire
- "Little Red Riding Hood"
- "The wolf and the seven Young goats"
- "Maxim"
- "Golden Key"
- "Mowgli"
- Madame Batterfly
- "Master Rocle"
- "King Lear"
- "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish"
- "Magical flute"
- "Aleco"
- "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"
- "Eugene Onegin"
- "Twelve months"
- "Love for three oranges"