Panteleimon Nortzov Eugene Onegin rare film

Panteleimon Nortzov is another mysterious Russian opera singer about whom there is little available information. He was one of the earliest recorded Onegins, appearing on both the 1936 and1937 Onegin cond. by Nebolsin and Orlov respectively. Here in this concert version, we can see the Russian theater tradition that played such a major role in the opera.
This is the only footage I've ever seen of this historically important artist. Nortzov is an intense, brooding, almost neurotic Onegin, who could go from distant and self absorbed to a stalker in a heartbeat.

"Panteleimon Nortsov (1900-93) was Kozlovskys exact contemporary, came from the same part of the Ukraine and also studied in Kiev, starting as a tenor but soon realising he was actually a baritone. He started his career in Kiev in 1924 and sang in Kharkov and at the Bolshoi before joining the regular Bolshoi company in 1925. Older opera-goers who could remember Battistini compared him with that paragon. In almost thirty years at the house, he sang Onegin some 600 times but shone in other Russian rôles too, as well as Mozart and the great French and Italian baritone parts. He had a wide repertoire of art songs, especially those by Russian composers. From 1951 he taught at the Gnesin Institute and later also at the Moscow Conservatory. He left other complete opera recordings as well as song recitals. On this recording we are deprived of his excellent stage presence but can almost see it, so vivid is his characterization." Tully Potter

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[robertwbecker]

Thank you for the post of this Truly Excellent  Singer, who until now, had been unknown to me!!!!!!!

[seancoxen]

An ideal example of the classic Russian baritone -- phenomenal ease of emission, superb diction and sympathetic timbre.

[jozefsterkens]

Fantastic!

[Kievest]

Thank you for restoring this precious

footage which appears and disappears

as mysteriously. This is a multidimensional portrayal of the first order. Maestro Nortzov might be the

Onegin to the tenor Denis Korolev's

Lensky to be seen here on YT. He seems

to resemble him. You might be interested

in the videos of Evgeny Kibkalo whose

rich baritone is heard as Onegin in the

Bolshoi Movie of the opera.

[Lenochka1107]

This is absolutely unique video! Thank you!