Piotr Olenin

Piotr Sergeevich Olenin
1871-1922
Russian Baritone
He studied medicine at Moscow University (graduated in 1895) and singing in Nikolayev,with Leonova Krzyzanowski and Kommissarzhevsky ,, where he performed with Sobinov in a amateur performance "Pagliacci." in 1895 he went to Italy to perfect his voice study Petz .Debut In 1897, as Tonio ("Pagliacci" ) in Genoa , Valentine ( "Faust" ) in La Spezia ,In 1898 he made his Bolshoi debut as Prince Igor ,also in 1898 he made his Moscow debut with Mamontov Private Opera as Onegin in “Eugene Onegin “ by Tchaikovsky . In 1900 he sang in the Private Opera (Theatre Solodovnikova ). In 1900-03 and 1915-18 he was soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, in 1904-15 – he sang in Moscow with Zimin’s Opera Company, 1907-15 –he was chief director of Zimin opera ; in 1918, he moved from the Bolshoi Theater in the Mariinsky , and moved with his family from Moscow to Petrograd .Also performed with great success in operettas