Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky was a Russian opera singer and teacher of voice and stagecraft. A leading tenor at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, he created many roles in Russian operas, in
Komissarzhevsky as the Pretender in Boris Godunov
Komissarzhevsky's daughter Vera
The Stone Guest is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky. In what was considered a bold innovation at the time, Dargomyzhsky himself extracted the libretto directly from Alexander Pushkin's
Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky
…company. He took up his appointment with the theatre in November 1863 and went on to create many roles there, most notably, Don Juan in Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest (1872), the Pretender in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (1874), Prince Sinodal in Rubinstein's The Demon (1875), and the title role in Tchaikovsky's Vakula…
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Komissarzhevsky and Petrov
Fyodor Komissarzhevsky as Don Juan
Yuliya Platonova as Donna Anna