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Christoff - Een Ster
"Een ster - Christoff", Live opgenomen tijdens Het Schlagerfestival 2008 in de Ethias Arena te Hasselt (vrijdag 04 April 2008)
Length: 76
Rating: 4.90 (9 ratings)
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BULGARIA FOREVER - Boris Christoff - Mnogaia Leta 1
Boris Christoff (Bulgarian: Борис Христов) (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria -- June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera s Boris Christoff (Bulgarian: Борис Христов) (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria -- June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century.
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Christoff demonstrated early his singing talent and sang as a boy at the choir of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia. In the late 1930s he graduated in law and started on a career as a magistrate. He, however, continued singing in his spare time in the Gusla Chorus in Sofia, achieving an enormous success as the chorus soloist in 1940. Thanks to a government grant, Christoff left in May 1942 for Italy where he was tutored for two years in the core Italian bass repertoire by Riccardo Stracciari.
After several guest appearances and recitals in Austria in 1944 and 1945, Christoff returned to Italy in December 1945. He made his operatic debut as Colline in "La Boheme" at Reggio Calabria on March 12, 1946. The following years Christoff appeared in a number of roles at Milan's La Scala, Venice's La Fenice, the Rome Opera, Covent Garden in London, the opera theatres in Naples, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, etc.
In 1950 he was invited to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in New York but was refused entry into the USA as a result of the McCarran Immigration Act, which banned citizens of the Soviet bloc countries from entering the country---the role was instead filled by the young Italian basso, Cesare Siepi. After the restrictions were loosened, Christoff made an operatic debut in the United States in 1956 at the San Francisco Opera. He refused any further invitations to the Metropolitan and never appeared there. After a brief absence from the scene due to brain tumour surgery in 1964, Christoff resumed his career in 1965, though at a much slower pace. In 1967 he was allowed to return to Bulgaria for the first time since 1945, for the funeral of his mother.
In the 1970s Christoff on-stage performances were all but frequent. He brought his career to an end with a final concert at the Accademia di Bulgaria in Rome on June 22, 1986. He died in Rome in 1993 but his body was returned to Sofia's Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, where he was given a state funeral.
With his matchless stage presence and strong dramatic temperament, Christoff emerged as a worthy heir to the grand tradition of Slavonic basses. He sang mostly in Verdi and the Russian repertoire, although he also proved to be a refined performer of vocal chamber music. Among his most famous roles were those of Tsar Boris (Mussorgsky - "Boris Godunov"), Philipp II (Verdi - "Don Carlo"), Mephistopheles (Gounod - "Faust" & Boito - "Mephistopheles"), Ivan Susanin (Glinka - "La vita per lo zar"), Zaccaria (Verdi - "Nabucco"), Tsar Ivan (Rimsky-Korsakov - "Ivan Le Teribile"), Dosifei (Mussorgsky - "Khovanshchina"), Gomez da Silva (Verdi - "Ernani"), Fiesco (Verdi - "Simon Boccanegra"), Attila (Verdi - "Attila"), Padre Guardiano (Verdi - "La forza del destino"), Galitzky and Kontchak (Borodin - "Prince Igor") and others. Boris Christoff made standards in most roles that sang on stage. He also has an enormous discography - studio recordings of 8 operas ("Don Carlo" and "Boris Godunov" twice each) and numerous live recordings (radio or stage performances). He was much admired as song singer and he recorded more 200 Russian songs by Mussorgsky (all his 63 songs - no one did this before), Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Borodin, Cui, Balakirev as well as traditional songs. Most of these songs are with piano accompaniment and are among the best of all his recordings.
A grand performer on stage, Christoff had difficult off-stage relations with fellow singers and producers, which sometimes grew into public scandals. In 1955 he fell out with Maria Callas during the performances of Medea at the Rome Opera and in 1961 his contract with La Scala was terminated after an open conflict with fellow Bulgarian Nicolai Ghiaurov whom Christoff blamed for collaborating with the Bulgarian communist regime
Length: 168
Rating: 4.80 (127 ratings)
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Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen
The incredible voice of Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff singing the Song of the Volga Boatmen.
London, 1959.
Length: 222
Rating: 4.90 (267 ratings)
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Boris Christoff,Erlkönig, Aix en Provence 1955.
The great Boris Christoff with Hans Rosbaud (piano)sings Erlkönig(schubert), concert live 1955, festival of Aix en Provence).
Unique and exceptional document, sorry for the sound.
Length: 265
Rating: 5.00 (13 ratings)
Tags: boris christoff basso basse erlkönig schubert lied lieder
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Boris Christoff recording Boris Godunov
Here is amazing footage of the great bass (and my favourite singer) Boris Christoff in the recording of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. You ask yourself where that subterranean rumble comes from!
Length: 233
Rating: 5.00 (50 ratings)
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Boris Christoff as Boris Godunov
Singing Farewell scene
Length: 379
Rating: 5.00 (52 ratings)
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