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as Tamino "magic Flute" Mozart

Anton Bonachich
1878-1933
Russian tenor

He took his first singing lessons at the Conservatoire in Kharkov with P. Tikhonov and then at the St. Petersburg conservatoire (1898-1900) with S.Gabel for singing, with O. Palechek for the opera class During 1900/1903 he sang at the Opera in Kharkov .Debut as the Demon in Rubinstein's opera. There he sang the main baritone's roles. From 1902, Bonachich sang as a tenor. He toured from 1900 singing in Kiev, Saratov , Yekaterinoslav, Tbilisi (, Nizhniy Novgorod, Baku and in Petersburg ia). Between 1905 and 1921, he was a soloist at the Bolshoi. 1921-1922, he was a soloist at the Omsk Opera and was also a producer and its director. He sang successfuly in Berlin , Italy, France, possibly in Monte-Carlo, and in the USA (1909-1912). From 1923, Bonachich dedicated himself to teach singing: