Pyotr Slovtsov
Pyotr Slovtsov (1886 -1934) was a Russian tenor. Born in Ustianskoye, Siberia, he studied with Ivanov Radkevich, and later attended the Warsaw University law school (1909) and Moscow Conservatory under I.Y. Gordi. He made his operatic debut with the Kiev Opera in 1912, and sang there until 1915, when he joined the Petrograd People’s House Theatre with a repertoire that included Faust, Rusalka, and Prince Igor. In 1920 he and his wife, the singer M.N Rioli-Slovtsova moved to Krasnoyarsk, although in 1928 he was appointed professor of music at the Moscow Conservatory and continued his appearances the Bolshoi in a wide variety of operatic roles. Slovtsov’s records are extremely rare and sought-after by a number of collectors.
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