1909 LEMBERG OPERA KATERINA RUBCHAKOVA Wanda Petrovich Lysenko NATALKA POLTAVKA
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A series of great  Russian, Polish, Czech and Yugo-Slav  Records from early G&Ts to World War II recordings on 78 rpm Victrola Records
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Two Ukrainian piecs recorded in then Austrian Drohobycz, Galicia near Lviv
by members of the Lemberg Theater, among them an early recording from  Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka Stormy breezes

67458-A
(10280L)  
ukrainian, rusyn soprano with orchestra
Rain-rain (?????-?????), folk song
Katerina Rubchakova, acc. orchestra 26-11-1909
Drohobycz, Galicia Victor (batwing, black) 67458 


67458-B
(10297L)  
ukrainian, rusyn soprano with orchestra
Stormy breezes (Opera «Natalka Poltavka», act 1) (Mykola (Nikolay) Lysenko, lyrics by Ivan Kotlyarevsky)
Wanda Petrovich-Senik, acc. orchestra 27-11-1909
Drohobycz, Galicia Victor (batwing, black) 67458

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Rubchakova Kateryna Andriivna Katerina Rubchakova Rubchak, Kateryna [?????? (?????????), ????????; Rubcak] (née Kossak), b 29 April 1881 in Chortkiv, Galicia, d 22 November 1919 in Zinkivtsi, near Kamianets-Podilskyi. Actress and singer (soprano); wife of Ivan Rubchak. Most of her brilliant theatrical and operatic career (1896–1914) was spent in the Ruska Besida Theater. Her extensive and varied repertoire included Ukrainian and Western European dramatic roles, many of which she premiered for the Galician and Bukovynian public. She performed with Les Kurbas and Vasyl Yurchak in Ivan Franko's Ukradene shchastia (Stolen Happiness) to great critical acclaim. Her best theatrical roles were in Taras Shevchenko’s Nazar Stodolia, Mykhailo Starytsky’s Tsyhanka Aza (The Gypsy Aza), Oi ne khody, Hrytsiu ... (Don’t Go to Parties, Hryts ...), Marusia Bohuslavka, Ivan Karpenko-Kary’s Khaziaïn (The Master), Volodymyr Vynnychenko’s Chorna pantera i bilyi vedmid’ (The Black Panther and White Bear), Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, Edmond Rostand’s Les Romanesques, Arthur Schnitzler’s Liebelei, and Jacob Gordin’s Mirele Efros. Her best operatic roles were in Semen Hulak-Artemovsky’s Zaporozhian Cossack beyond the Danube, Mykola Arkas’s Kateryna, Yaroslav Y. Lopatynsky’s Enei na mandrivtsi (Aeneas on the Journey), Charles Gounod’s Faust, Johann Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman, Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly, and Stanislaw Moniuszko's Halka. She also sang in operettas composed by Johann Strauss, Arthus Sullivan, and Franz Lehár. In 1916–18 she headed the Theater of the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, and in 1919, the Chernivtsi Ukrainian Theater and the Theater of the Western Province of the Ukrainian National Republic. In 1981 UNESCO marked the centenary of her birth. A biography by P. Medvedyk was published in Kyiv (1989).


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