Maria Sokil
Maria Sokil (Rudnytsky) (October 18, 1902 – January 20, 1999) was a Ukrainian opera singer.[1]
Biography
Sokil was born in the village of
Katerynoslav from 1920 to 1925. She later studied in Italy, France, and Germany.[2]
She made her opera debut in
Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater[3] and, with her husband, toured a number of countries in Eastern and Central Europe for the next several years coming with concerts to the United States and Canada in 1937 and then again in 1938–1939 and then remaining in the United States when World War II started.[4]
She had success with the roles of
La Bohème), Liu (Puccini's Turandot), Elsa (Richard Wagner's Lohengrin), Tatiana (Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin), Lisa (Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades), Odarka (Hulak-Artemovsky's Zaporozhets za Dunayem), and Natalka (Lysenko
's Natalka Poltavka). In 1939, Sokil had the leading role (Odarka) in the motion picture Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za Dunayem), made in the United States. Maria Sokil and her husband subsequently continued their musical activities in several different ways for many years in the United States.
She died on January 20, 1999, in Youngstown, Ohio, at the age of 96.[3]
Children:
- cellist and composer[3]
- Roman Rudnytsky (Роман Рудницький) (born 1942), pianist[3]
Grandchildren:
- Tara Palmer (Rudnytsky)
- Evan Rudnytsky
- Oksana McStowe (Rudnytsky)
- Damian Rudnytsky
References
- ^ "Марія Сокіл – співуча українська зірка ХХ ст" (PDF) (in Ukrainian). 2015-12-10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
- ^ Newspapers.com.
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- Newspapers.com.
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