Oleg Bryzhak
Oleg Bryjak (27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Oleg Bryzhak was born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.
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Oleg Bryzhak
- Name
- Oleg Bryjak
- Born
- 27 October 1960
- Birthplace
- Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
- Died
- 24 March 2015
- Place of death
- Prads-Haute-Bléone, France
- Occupation
- Opera singer
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Germany
- Fields
- opera
- Languages
- German
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Oleg Bryjak (27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Oleg Bryzhak was born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.
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Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner and 148 others when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed by its co-pilot in Prads-Haute-Bléone, France, during their return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
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• Name — Oleg Bryjak • Native Name — Олег Брижак • Born — 27 October 1960 • Birthplace — Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union • Died — 24 March 2015 • Place of death — Prads-Haute-Bléone, France • Occupation — Opera singer • Employer — Deutsche Oper am Rhein
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Jezkazgan.
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Prads-Haute-Bléone.
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• Leoš Janáček: Káťa Kabanová – Karita Mattila (Katia), Bryjak (Dikoj), Chorus and Orquesta del Teatro Real; Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Robert Carsen (director). Recorded at Teatro Real, Madrid, December 2008. Fra Musica (Harmonia Mundi) FRA003 (DVD).
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- 1.Düsseldorfer Opernsänger unter den Opfern des Flugzeugabsturzes – Trauernde Angehörige erreichen den Flughafen in Barcelona. Bild.de. 24 March 2015.
- 2.Посол України підтвердив загибель Олега Брижака у катастрофі Airbus A320, BBC Ukrainian, 25 March 2015. Andriy Melnyk, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, confirmed that Bryjak was ethnically Ukrainian, but did not hold Ukrainian nationality.
- 3.naviny.by.
- 4.Administrator. Oleg Bryjak – Биографи. olegbryjak.com.
- 5.Оперный певец Олег Брыжак погиб в авиакатастрофе Germanwings, Deutsche Welle (in Russian), 24 March 2015.
- 6.Shammas, John. Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead. Daily Mirror. 24 March 2015.
- 7.Humphreys, Garry. Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year. The Independent. 26 March 2015.
- 8.Connolly, Kate. Germanwings memorial service: relatives of victims 'united in pain'. The Guardian. 2015-04-17. 0261-3077.
- 9.Germanwings pilot intentionally crashes plane, killing 150 people. HISTORY.
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