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I just got more. Oleg Bezinskikh: I am an ordinary person

« Russian miracle» Oleg Bezinskikh was born in Oktyabrsk Samara region. Dad was a driver, mom was a mechanic, foreman for tractor drivers. While his parents were at work, Oleg helped his older sister with the housework. That's what they called him at home - our supply manager. And when Olezhka does all the work, he begins to sing at the top of his voice. The neighbors were banging on the wall: “Make the radio quieter!” But the "radio" could not sing quieter. The reason for this is role models, numerous records that Oleg bought in a discount store for three kopecks apiece. He listened carefully classical operas, and then reproduced both male and female parts.

Sometimes Oleg went on stage at the Kostychevsky House of Culture. People were perplexed: “Where does the boy have such a voice?” And his voice is from God and from his grandparents - in their youth, both sang in the church choir.

In adolescence, Oleg's vocal range unusually expanded. He could sing and low voice, and high.

After graduating from school, Oleg entered the Samara cultural and educational school, at the department of directing drama. Then he worked as the director of the recreation center of oil workers in the village of Zolnoye, on Pskov television, and entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Culture, at the director's department. At one of the student skits, Bezinsky performed an opera aria in high tessitura. Hearing his voice, the teacher said: "Urgently take the Bezinskys to the conservatory." Oleg was perplexed: “What conservatory? I don't even know the notes! But still he came to the conservatory. He was late for the entrance exams, but they still auditioned him. And they enrolled right away. In the entire history of the conservatory, he became the only student with a unique voice range - from baritone to soprano.

Music of the soul

Already in the years of study, he began to be invited to participate in prestigious international festivals. The singer started cooking solo programs, recorded the vocal album "Music of my soul". It was the Bezinskys who were chosen to participate in the European premiere of Maria Antonia Walpurgis's opera Talestri. And soon the singer comes to the International Evian Festival of Mstislav Rostropovich, presents in France the premiere of the cantata Diplipito by Gia Kancheli.

In the nineties, Oleg sings in best palaces Petersburg and concert halls cities of Russia and abroad. Moscow conductor Anton Sharoev invites the Bezinskys to perform the part of Alcides in Dmitry Bortnyansky's opera Alcides. The premiere takes place in Tyumen and Moscow. At this time, Oleg began close cooperation with the St. Petersburg composer Peter Gekker, who wrote the part in the Jerusalem cantata especially for him. Continuing their joint work, Peter Gekker and Oleg Bezinskikh record a CD "Jewish Melodies" (from baritone to soprano), the presentation of which takes place in the cities of Spain. Oleg is going on a concert tour of the cities of America with the youth chamber choir of St. Petersburg, conducted by Yulia Khutoretskaya.

In 2001 Mariinskii Opera House invites Oleg to work in the project “The Terrible Opera Performance “Tsar Demyan”, after which he releases the CD “Tsar Demyan” (2002). For several years in a row, the singer performs in the programs of the international music festival"Palaces of St. Petersburg" ( artistic director- Maria Safaryants), participates in the recording of two discs: "Christmas Mystery" and "Baroque Mystery". Oleg is invited to work in the production of Handel's cantata "Solomon" (Solomon's part).

Oleg Bezinskikh was born in the small town of Oktyabrsk, Samara Region, in the very heart of Russia. After graduation high school Oleg entered the Kuibyshev (Samara) School of Culture, the Department of Drama Directing, and successfully completed it. Worked at the Pskov television studio; in parallel, he entered the Leningrad (Petersburg) Institute of Culture, where he continued his studies in directing drama.

Before graduating from the institute, Oleg accidentally, the day before the exams, got to audition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. At the audition, Oleg sang in baritone and dramatic tenor, after which he was allowed to apply and take exams, but Oleg asked to listen to another of his voices, which he called "female", which amused the commission. However, when he sang, the laughter stopped, and Bezinskikh was enrolled in the St. Petersburg Conservatory named after N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov, where he studied with the assistant professor of the department solo singing, candidate of art history Viktor Yushmanov (who later became the godfather of the singer) and concertmaster Galina Senina. Oleg became the first and only countertenor graduate in the entire 140-year history of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

Conservatory student Oleg Bezinskikh is invited to the prestigious international festival"Wratislavia cantas", where, together with the singer Adele Stolte, he presents baroque music. At the same time, the singer begins to prepare solo concert programs, and later recorded the vocal album "Music of my soul". He is invited to participate in the European premiere of Maria Antonia Walpurgis' opera "Talestri". A CD of the opera is being recorded in Berlin. After a successful performance in Germany, Oleg sings at a significant concert in front of Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaya, where he is called the "Russian Miracle". In the same year, the singer goes to the Mstislav Rostropovich International Evian Festival and presents the premiere of Gia Kancheli's cantata "Diplipito" in France.

All these years, Oleg has been singing in the best palaces of St. Petersburg and concert halls of cities in Russia and abroad. Moscow conductor Anton Sharoev invites the Bezinskys to perform the part of Alcides in Dmitry Bortnyansky's opera Alcides. The premiere takes place in Tyumen and Moscow. At this time, Oleg began close cooperation with the St. Petersburg composer Peter Gekker, who wrote the part in the Jerusalem cantata especially for him. Continuing their joint work, Pyotr Gekker and Oleg Bezinskikh record a CD "Jewish Melodies" (from baritone to soprano), the presentation of which took place in the cities of Spain (Oleg Bezinskikh is the only countertenor singer in the world who performs Jewish music). Oleg is going on a concert tour of the cities of America with the youth chamber choir of St. Petersburg, conducted by Yulia Khutoretskaya.

In 2001, the Mariinsky Theater invites Oleg to work in the project “The Terrible Opera Performance “Tsar Demyan”, after which he releases the CD “Tsar Demyan” (2002). For several years in a row, the singer performs in the programs of the international music festival "Palaces of St. Petersburg" (artistic director Maria Safaryants), participates in the recording of two discs: "Christmas Mystery" and "Baroque Mystery". Oleg is invited to work in the production of Handel's cantata "Solomon" (Solomon's part). The production is directed by the unique Address Mustonen. vocal art the singer was highly appreciated at the international organ festival in Tallinn.

Oleg Bezinsky's repertoire includes not only romances, songs and opera parts - cartoon characters also speak and sing in his voice. The Walt Disney Company approved Bezinsky to dub the famous mouse Mickey Mouse, and also entrusted him to perform the part of the Prince in the Russian version of the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Back in 2002, the young director Sergei Gnilitsky presented the film "Russian Miracle" by Oleg Bezinskikh countertenor, which was successfully shown on television. Film occupies prize-winning place on Russian competition documentary films, becomes a nominee for the TEFI-region award in 2005. The singer's voice is studied at the Ukhtomsky Institute (St. Petersburg) in order to develop the scientific program "The Origin of the Human Voice" and is used in treatment at the Institute of Advanced Medicine.

Now Oleg is working on an unusual project. It mixed and musical genres, and music of various directions and time of writing. The singer's creative search speaks of him as a versatile personality.

Oleg Bezinskikh, with the help of teachers, constantly improves his vocal technique and performance skills, considering this one of the main factors of vocal art.

When did you realize that you are not like everyone else?

Why not like this? I'm like everyone else (laughs).

You know, I never thought about it. Well voice and voice. Here grandfather had a bass profundo - this is the lowest male voice, - I got a tenor from him. And my grandmother had a coloratura soprano. She and her grandfather sang in the church choir all their lives, so the family heard both low and high notes. And when I, boy, sang high voice The family took it well. The only thing my mother always said was that I unusual child, because all babies are born red, and I was white. Mom was terribly scared, she thought that her son was born dead. The doctor says: “Strange, this is the first time I am taking such a child. So you take care of it." And I have been protected all my life. And the first sound I made was a bass scream.

When did the public first learn about your talent?

First baptism of fire in the role of a countertenor happened in the tenth grade. For the city singing review, our school had to come up with something new, something that others would not have. And I say: "I have one chip." As a result, at the review, I sang Lel's song from the opera "The Snow Maiden" - "The cloud conspired with the falcon." Hall laughed. Imagine: a huge guy, weighing under a hundred kilograms, sings in a thin voice. I gave the command to the accompanist not to play until the hall calmed down, and when everyone calmed down, I sang a second time, and no one else moved. I finished, there was silence - I stand and do not understand anything. When I turned to leave the stage, suddenly there was applause, and then I realized: the school had the first place.

How much did you need musical education?

Very necessary! Classical music taught to think and accustomed to insane order. After all, even cacophonous or diatonic music teaches order and discipline. By the way, it was at the Conservatory that they first began to hint that I was a castrato.

What do you think about it?

I'm very good. Well, castrato and castrato, for God's sake! So, not like everyone else. And not like everyone else - that means I attract attention. And I attract attention - it means that I am interesting to people. Not everyone understands that if I speak in a normal voice - a lyrical baritone - and sing in both a baritone and a high voice, then I cannot be a castrato. Not physiological, not biological, not something else.

Do you think the public is ready to accept on the stage a performer who will stand out with his voice, and not with an extravagant appearance or a scandalous personal life?

There are just over a hundred countertenors all over the world. Of these, people who sing in the range from low baritone to soprano - five or six. Considering that there are six billion people on the planet, it turns out that people like Bezinsky are about one in a billion! I am very pleased that I am one of them. Super nice! Therefore, I will not prove anything to anyone, I will not invent any “stories”. I just create. The Russian listener was sometimes fed with low-quality music. Let's just agree
Xia say not "pop", but "variety". So, the stage is also different. Shulzhenko, Utyosov are also a stage. But we don't blame them, do we? Because it's beautiful. So, I want to do the same. I want to bring melody to the stage.

The Walt Disney Company approved you several years ago as a stand-in for Mickey Mouse in Russia.

I voiced a lot of cartoons and films and sometimes I didn't even know what they were called. I was interested in both voice work and reincarnation. And Mickey is generally my character. When I stood in front of the microphone, I imagined that I had the same big ears. Once voiced it for five hours in a row! And it was not Oleg Bezinskikh, it was Mickey Mouse. By the way, in some cartoons Minnie Mouse, Mickey's girlfriend, speaks in my voice. The girl who dubbed Minnie often left the studio, forgetting to voice some scenes, and I squeaked for her.

I will clarify - my voice is not studied, but studied. I did not continue to cooperate with scientists, because I cannot sit still - I live both in Moscow and St. Petersburg, on trains and on planes. At the Ukhtomsky Institute, the topic “The Origin of the Human Voice” was researched. I don’t know how the matter ended, but as for me, a spectral analysis was made - I make a sound with a frequency of 1000 MHz, like a newborn, while the voice of a “normal” tenor has a frequency of around 560 MHz. As for the use in medicine: about four years ago, a woman appeared in my life quite by accident - she bought my first album “Music of my soul” at a concert. She suffered from insomnia and neurasthenia, tried all the medicines, but nothing helped. And when she put on a cassette with my songs, it helped her, even her attending doctors confirmed this. Since then, this woman always falls asleep to my songs.

Concert organization

Oleg Bezinskikh - voice range from baritone to soprano, allows him to perform music of various eras and trends. His repertoire includes parts and individual arias from operas, oratorios and cantatas from the Baroque era to the present day.
You can invite Oleg Bezinskikh to the event on our official website.
Oleg Bezinskikh was born in Oktyabrsk, Samara region. He graduated from the Kuibyshev (Samara) School of Culture and St. Petersburg state institute culture (theatrical directing), as well as the St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory (Vocal Department), where he studied under the assistant professor of the Department of Solo Singing, Candidate of Art History, Viktor Ivanovich Yushmanov, as a countertenor (accompanist - Galina Senina). Additionally, he studied vocals with the famous German soprano Adele Stolte. Oleg became the first and only countertenor graduate in the entire 140-year history of the St. Petersburg Conservatory.
Oleg started professional activity still a student: since then and to this day he performs mainly as a concert singer.
Among his foreign engagements is a performance at the XXIX International Music Festival "Wratislavia Cantans" together with Adele Stolte (Wroclaw, Poland, 1994); performance of the part of Leark at the European premiere of M.A. Walpurgis' opera Talestri (Berlin, Meissen, Neuburg, Munich, Germany, 1998); participation in the French premiere of G. Kancheli's cantata "Diplipito" at the Evian Music Festival by Mstislav Rostropovich (Evian, France - Geneva, Switzerland, 1999); and many other performances.

In Russia, Oleg sang at the Russian premiere of "Nine Germanic Arias" by G. F. Handel, which took place in the State Academic Chapel named after Glinka (St. Petersburg, 1995); performed the role of Mephistopheles in A. Schnittke's Faust Cantata (St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, 1995; Saratov, 2001); performed the role of the Holy Fool in MP Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the St. Petersburg Opera (St. Petersburg, 1995); sang the premiere of P. Hecker's cantata "Jerusalem" (St. Petersburg, 2000); also performed with solo concerts in different cities of Russia.
Has performed in Russia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain and the USA;
He has worked with such conductors as Anton Sharoev, Tadeusz Vicherek, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Temirkanov, Alexander Titov, Eduard Serov, Andris Veismanis, Andres Mustonen, Nikolai Vinogradov and Valery Gergiev and many others...
He recorded several CDs and DVDs, took part in many television and radio programs.
In 2003, Sergei Gnilitsky, a young director from Samara, made a film about the singer documentary"Russian miracle".
Oleg's voice range from baritone to soprano (A - b "") allows him to perform music of various eras and directions.
His repertoire includes parts and individual arias from operas, oratorios and cantatas from the Baroque era to the present day, as well as lieder and Russian, Italian and Jewish songs.

Singer Oleg Bezinskikh, who became the first (and only) countertenor graduate in the entire 145-year history of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, performs not only classical, but also pop repertoire. The owner of a unique voice sings from baritone to soprano.

Singer Oleg Bezinskikh, who became the first (and only) countertenor graduate in the entire 145-year history of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, performs not only classical, but also pop repertoire. Our correspondent Antonina Rostovskaya met with the artist.

Above tenor

- Oleg, they just don’t write about you in newspapers and on the Internet! What is the right way to call you?

- Now a lot and incorrectly write "counter-tenor" or "counter-tenor". This English word countertenor (literally translated "above the tenor"). Therefore, it is more correct - countertenor.

How did you get to know your voice at the conservatory?

— When I was admitted to the conservatory, the teachers did not know at all what to do with me and how to teach me. I was sent to Viktor Yushmanov's class. Given away because... former surgeon! He could understand how the countertenor apparatus works. Viktor Ivanovich was the only doctor of science teaching vocals in Russian universities. In his book Vocal Technique and Its Paradoxes, he raised the topics of the psychology of vocals. Singers have associative thinking. And sometimes they are told like this: “Here, take your breath, hold it here, and here you have lower costal diaphragmatic breathing.” When I sing, I don't think about it!

But everyone has different associations!

“Therefore, the student must always work with the teacher in an ensemble in order to understand the style and flow of the master’s thoughts. That's what happened to me. Plus to this ensemble is a wonderful accompanist Galina Senina. I had already graduated from the conservatory, but continued to work with these people. Victor
Yushmanov became my godfather when I was still a preparatory student at the conservatory.
friend even on stage

- Among your fans, your performance of "Ave Maria" enjoys special love. Mstislav Rostropovich, whom you knew, said: "Everything that I play, I love to faint." What songs or projects are your favorite?

- In general, I am one of those people who sing whatever they like. Regardless of whether my entire range is used in the work or not.

I often give concerts in St. Petersburg, and the public can hear in my performance works from baritone to soprano! For example, a composition from the repertoire of Ima Sumak “Carnival”, “Mambo Italiano” with Russian text, an anthem to St. me, - “Let go and goodbye” by Alexander Prusov, works from the Jewish disc “Prayer” by Peter Gekker ... This is all my favorite music!

As for the fans, they help me a lot and do it disinterestedly. There is an excellent doctor in Moscow, and I always know who to turn to with a question about my health. In St. Petersburg there are a lot of not just admirers, but already friends who really help me in all matters. And I am grateful to them!

Are there any detractors?

I wish all the ill-wishers good health and for long years life! I'm friends with normal and kind people. And I'm a friend on stage too! After all, if I go on stage just as an artist, the concert will not take place!

- Oleg, and without your chic costumes, the concerts probably won't take place either?

I love interesting costumes! Nika Velikzhaninova sews a lot of clothes for me in St. Petersburg. She designed costumes for the circus "Du Soleil", for Bolshoi Theater, sewed to many of our skaters. And I have been so honored. It was she and her assistants who sewed the costumes for the ice opera “Infinity”, for my video.

There is a prince's suit, where the collar is made of Italian lace, which was woven by men by hand, and there is a suit decorated with real Swarovski stones. But in Lately I gravitate towards classic suits. In everyday life I love sport style: T-shirts, trousers - and the looser, the better. In short, like all people.

Opened one of 2000 doors

- Oleg, after Galina Vishnevskaya called you a Russian miracle, do you perceive yourself as an ordinary person?

“I am a completely normal person. Yes, more is given to me than to some. But it is known that if more is given in one sphere of activity, then in another - a little less. I try to be versatile, but I know, for example, that I will never learn to play well on any musical instrument, this is not given to me. Are there people who fly planes well? And this is great, it's just that they talk about good pilots and know less! And since I am an artist and a public person, they say a little more about me. Yes, there are few people with a voice like me, but I'm ordinary.

Do you know any other countertenors?

- Yes, but neither in Europe nor in Russia no one else sings from baritone to soprano. It is said that there are two people in Japan and America with a similar range.

I am also familiar with other countertenors. One of these is Michael Chance, who comes to St. Petersburg every year. He is a great virtuoso and surprisingly subtly and authentically feels and performs baroque music. A promising countertenor Vasily Khoroshev has now appeared in Moscow (a worthy replacement for the departed Eric Kurmangaliev). Of course, I also know people who consider themselves countertenors, but they are not. But I don't want to talk about these.

- The first two directorial educations were a waste of time?

- I think my higher education helped me, of course. But how life would have turned out differently without them, I can only guess. I could have been born in a different family, or I might not have been born at all! Life chose me, not me. There were, let's say, 2000 doors or roads in front of me. I opened one door, there were others behind it... Life is a labyrinth. We enter through different doors and do not know where we will go. Regretting the past is stupid, we can only experience or rejoice in the past. A minute of our conversation with you has passed - and this moment cannot be returned. We must live in the present and try to change the future in better side. To be kind and beautiful is human uniqueness!

Oleg Bezinskikh was born in the small town of Oktyabrsk, Samara Region. Graduated from the Kuibyshev (Samara) School of Culture, Department of Drama Directing. Worked at the Pskov television studio; in parallel, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Culture, where he continued his studies in directing drama.

At the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Oleg studied with the assistant professor of the department of solo singing, candidate of art criticism Viktor Yushmanov (later godfather singer) and concertmaster Galina Senina.

The Walt Disney Company invited Oleg Bezinskikh to dub the famous Mickey Mouse, and also entrusted him to perform the part of the Prince in the Russian version of the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The singer's voice is studied at the Ukhtomsky Institute (St. Petersburg) in order to develop a scientific program "The Origin of the Human Voice" and is used in treatment at the Institute of Advanced Medicine.

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