Biography Yuri Mazurok

People's Artist of the USSR was born on July 18 in the city of Krasnik Lublin Voivodeship Poland. Son - Mazurok Yuri Yuryevich G. childhood of the future singer passed in Ukraine, which has long been famous for its beautiful voices. Yuri began to sing, as many sang, not thinking about the profession of a vocalist. After graduating from high school, he entered the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.

In his student years, Yuri was passionately carried away by the musical theater - and not only as a spectator, but also as a performer in amateur performances, where for the first time his outstanding vocal abilities were discovered. Soon, Mazurok became a recognized “prime minister” of the opera studio of the institute, in the performances of which he performed by the parties of Eugene Onegin and Germon.

Not only teachers of an amateur studio were carefully given the talent of the young man. He has repeatedly heard the advice from vocal from many, in particular, from a very authoritative person in the city, the soloist of the Lviv Opera House, People's Artist P. Yuri doubted for a long time, because he already proven himself as a non-tuning engineer in the year, he graduated from the institute and entered graduate school.

The case decided the case. In the year, being on a business trip in Moscow, Mazurok took a chance to “test fate”: he came to listen to the conservatory. But this was not just a case: a passion for art, for music, for singing from the very first steps in professional art Yuri Mazurok was very lucky with the teacher. He was listened to by Professor S. Migai, formerly one of the famous baritones, who performed with the luminaries of the Russian opera scene - F.

Chaliapin, L. Sobinov, A. Nezhdanova - first in Mariinsky, and then for many years in the Bolshoi Theater. An active, sensitive, extremely life -loving person, Sergey Ivanovich was merciless in his judgments, but if he met true talents, he treated them with rare care and attention. After listening to Yuri, he said: “I think that you are not good an engineer. But I think that you can quit chemistry and oil so far.

Take care of vocals. " From this day, S. Migaya's opinion determined the path of Yuri Mazurok. Migai took him to his class, solving a worthy shift in him to the best opera singers. Death prevented Sergei Ivanovich to bring the student to the diploma, and his next mentors were - Professor A. Dollyo, and in graduate school, Professor A. At first, Yuri Mazuroka, in the conservatory, had not been not easy.

Of course, he was older and more experienced than his fellow students, but professionally much less prepared: there were not enough basics of musical knowledge, the theoretical base acquired, like others, at a music school, in a school. Nature endowed Yu. Mazurok unique in the beauty of Temra Baritone, a large range, even in all registers. Speech in amateur opera performances helped him acquire the sensation of the scene, the skills of ensemble, a sense of contact with the visual hall.

But the school, which he held in the conservative classes, his own attitude to the profession of an opera artist, is a thorough, painstaking work, attentive fulfillment of all the requirements of teachers determined his path of improvement, gaining difficult heights of skill. And here the character affected - perseverance, hard work and, most importantly, passionate love for singing, music.

It is not surprising that after a very short time they started talking about him as a new name that appeared in the opera sky. For only 3 years, Mazurikov won prizes at 3 most difficult vocal competitions: as a student, in the “Prague Spring” of the year - the second; The following year, already in the graduate “rank” at the George Enescu contest in Bucharest - the third and, finally, in the II All -Union Competition of M.

Glinka in the year, he divided the second place with V. Atlantov and M. The opinion of the teachers, musical critics, the members of the jury, as a rule, were single: the softness and saturation of Temra, elasticity and rare beauty were especially noted. His voices are lyrical baritone, congenital cantilens. In the conservative years, a whole series of complex stage problems was solved by the singer.

For the first time he went on stage in the title party of this opera in an amateur theater; Then he performed it in the conservative studio and, finally, on the stage of the Bolshoi Mazurok Theater was admitted to the internship group in the year. This party then successfully sounded in his performance on the scenes of the leading opera theaters in the world-in London, Milan, Toulouse, New York, Tokyo, Paris, Warsaw in the diploma of the conservative performance of Mazurok-Anyagin: nobility, softness, beauty of voice, musicality, meaningfulness of every phrase, each episode.

And a completely different Onegin at Mazurok - in the play of the Bolshoi Theater. Here, the artist already solves the image in a different way, reaching a rare psychological depth, putting forward the drama of loneliness that destroys the human personality. His Onegin is an earthly personality, prosaic, with a changeable and contradictory character.Mazurikov conveys the whole complexity of the spiritual conflicts of his hero dramatically accurately and surprisingly truthfully, without falling into melodramatism and false pathetics.

Following the Onegin party, the artist withstood another serious and responsible exam at the Bolshoi Theater, acting as Prince Andrei in the “War and Peace” by Prokofiev. In addition to the complexity of the entire score as a whole, the complexity of the performance, where dozens of characters operate and therefore requires a special art of communication with partners, in itself this image is very multi-torque both in the musical, vocal and scenic terms.

The clarity of the acting plan, the free possession of the voice, the wealth of vocal colors and the constant sense of the stage helped the singer to draw a vital psychological portrait of the hero Tolstoy and Prokofiev. Mazurikov performed the party of Andrei Bolkonsky and in the first performance of War and Peace on the tour of the Bolshoi Theater in Italy. The numerous foreign press appreciated his art and took him, along with the performer of the party, Natasha Rostova - Tamara Milashkina, the leading place.

One of the “crowned” roles of the artist was the image of Figaro in the “Seville barber” of Rossini. This role was played by him easily, witty, with brilliance and grace. The popular Cavatin Figaro sounded incendiary. But unlike many singers, who often turn it only into a brilliant vocal number, demonstrating virtuoso equipment, Mazurok Kavatin revealed the character of the hero - his ardent disposition, determination, acute observation and humor.

The creative range of Yu. Mazurok is very wide. Over the years in the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, Yuri Antonovich performed almost all baritonal parties both lyrical and dramatic! Many of them serve as an artistic model of execution and can be attributed to the best achievements of the Russian opera school. In addition to the parties, which were mentioned above, his heroes were Yeletsky in the “peak of Tchaikovsky”, with his sublime love; Germon in Travate Verdi is a noble aristocrat, for whom, however, the honor and reputation of the family is above all; The conceited, proud Count of the Luna in the "Trubadur" of Verdi; The stubborn lazy Demetrius, falling into all kinds of comedy situations “Sleep on a summer night” by Britten; in love with his land and fascinatingly telling about the temptations of the miracle nature of Venice Vedenets guest in the "Sadko" of Rimsky-Korsakov; The Marquis of the Pose is a proud, courageous Spanish Grand, fearlessly giving life for justice, for the freedom of the Don Carlos people Verdi and his antipode - the chief of the Skarpia police “Toska” Puccini; The dazzling Toreador Escamillo “Carmen” Bizet and Sailor Ilyusha - a simple guy who made the Revolution “October” Muradel; The young, reckless, fearless tsar “Semyon Kotko” Prokofiev and the Duma clerk “Boris Godunov” Mussorgsky.

The list of roles of Yu. Each of these parties, including even short, episodic roles, is marked by the absolute artistic completeness of the plan, thoughtfulness and honing of each stroke, every detail, impressive by emotional power, fullness of execution. The singer never dissects the opera batch into separate numbers, arias, ensembles, but achieves the extension from the beginning to the end of the line of the through development of the image, thereby helping to create a feeling of integrity, logical completeness of the hero’s portrait, the need for all his actions, actions, whether it be a hero of the opera performance or a short vocal miniature.

His highest professionalism, brilliant ownership of the voice from the first steps on the stage was appreciated not only by fans of opera art, but also by artists' colleagues. Irina Konstantinovna Arkhipova at one time wrote: “I always considered Yu. Mazuroka a brilliant vocalist, his speeches become a decoration of any performance, on any most famous opera scene of the world.

His Onegin, Yeletsky, Prince Andrei, Vedenets, Germon, Figaro, Demetrius, Demetrius, Tsarev and many other images are marked by a large internal acting temperament, which is externally expressed quite restrained, which is natural for him, since the whole complex of feelings, thoughts and actions of his heroes expresses vocal means. In elastic, like a string, the singer’s voice, in a beautiful sound, in all his posture there is already nobility, honor and many other qualities of his opera heroes - counts, princes, knights.

This determines his creative individuality. ” The creative activity of Yu. Mazurok was not limited to work in the Bolshoi Theater. He performed in the performances of other opera theaters of the country, took part in the productions of foreign opera troupe. Skarpia Mazurok is largely different from the usual interpretation of this image: most often performers emphasize that the police chief is a soulless, stubborn tyrant, despot.

He is also smart Mazuroka, and has a huge willpower, which allows to hide passion, insidiousness under the guise of impeccable abnormality, suppress the mind of feelings. Yuri Mazurikov toured a lot and successfully around the country and abroad with solo concerts.The vast chamber repertoire of the singer included the songs and romances of Russian and Western European authors-Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schuman, Grieg, Malera, Ranel, song cycles and romances of Shaporin, Khrennikov, Kabalevsky, Ukrainian folk songs.

Each number of his program is a finished scene, sketch, portrait, condition, character, mood of the hero. If he sings Monteverdi or Mascagie, then this music will always be at the Italian sense of style, a subtle comprehension of the nature of the musical letter of a particular author - these qualities affected the work of Yuri Mazurok already at the beginning of his opera career.

A vivid evidence of this is a victory at the International Vocalist Competition in Montreal in the year. The competition in Montreal was extremely difficult: the program included works of various schools - from Bach to Hindemit. The most complicated composition of the Canadian composer Harry Somers “Kayas” was proposed as mandatory for all the contestants in translated from Indian - “long”, based on genuine melodies and texts of Canadian Indians.

Mazurikov brilliantly managed both intonational and lexical difficulties, which he earned the honorary-playful nickname “Canadian Indian” from the public.

He was recognized as the jury of the best of 37 contestants representing 17 countries of the world. He was awarded two orders of the Red Banner of Labor. In the year, he was awarded the "Firebird"-the highest award of the International Union of Musical Workers. A member of the CPSU S in graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, a student of S. Migay and A. Sveshnikova, under whose leadership he graduated from graduate school.

With a trainee, then a soloist of the Bolshoi Theater. It has a sound timbre with a pleasant voice, great musicality. Acts as a concert singer. Laureate of international and all-Union contests of vocalists "Prague Spring", Prague, 2nd Ave. Enesku, Bucharest, 3rd Glinka Ave., Moscow, 2nd Ave.