Osip Petrov
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Osip Afanasievich Petrov was a Russian operatic bass-baritone of great range and renown, whose career centred on St. Petersburg.
Portrait by Sergey Zaryanko, 1849
A Life for the Tsar
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A Life for the Tsar is a "patriotic-heroic tragic" opera in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. During the Soviet era the opera was known under the name Ivan Susanin, due to the anti-monarch
Osip Petrov
…Leporello in Dargomyzhsky's The Stone Guest Susanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar Ruslan in Glinka's Ruslan and Lyudmila…
Osip Petrov as Ivan Susanin in the premiere
Set design for the epilogue
Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan Susanin
Chaliapin F. 1900х as Ivan Susanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar