Mark Reizen

About the artist

Mark Osipovich Reizen (1895-1992) was a leading Soviet-era opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was born into a Jewish family of mine workers in 1895. He had four brothers and a sister, and all were musically trained, playing mandolin, guitar, balalaika and accordion. He served as a soldier in the First World War. Then he studied as an engineer, but also as a singer at the Kharkiv conservatory with the Italian professor Federico Bugamelli in 1919-1920.

Top songs

1. Песня о Щорсе
2. Song of Artillerymen
3. Марш артиллеристов
4. Заветный камень
5. Khovanshchina: Act 5, Introduction & Monologue of Dosifey "Zdes' na yetom meste"
6. Eugene Onegin: Act 3, Scene 1, Gremin's Aria "Lyubvi vse vozrasty pokorny"
7. Il lacerato spirito (sung in russian) (Simon Boccanegra)
8. Oh, the Roads...
9. Pesnja artilleristov
10. Le veau d´or (sung in russian) (Faust)

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