Oleg Bryjak
Oleg Bryjak | |
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Олег Брижак | |
Born | Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | 27 October 1960
Died | 24 March 2015 Prads-Haute-Bléone, France | (aged 54)
Occupation | Opera singer |
Employer | Deutsche Oper am Rhein |
Oleg Bryjak (Ukrainian: Олег Брижак, 27 October 1960 – 24 March 2015) was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.
Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld.
Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner when Germanwings Flight 9525 was deliberately crashed by its co-pilot in Prads-Haute-Bléone, France, during their return from performances of Richard Wagner's Siegfried at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.
Notable recordings
- Leoš Janáček: Káťa Kabanová – Karita Mattila (Katia), Bryjak (Dikoj), Chorus and Orquesta del Teatro Real; Jiří Bělohlávek (conductor), Robert Carsen (director). Recorded at Teatro Real, Madrid, December 2008. Fra Musica (Harmonia Mundi) FRA003 (DVD).
- 1960 births
- 2015 deaths
- German opera singers
- Soviet male opera singers
- Operatic bass-baritones
- People murdered in France
- German people murdered abroad
- German murder victims
- Mass murder victims
- Members of Ukrainian Orthodox church bodies
- People from Karaganda Region
- Kazakhstani people of Ukrainian descent
- German people of Kazakhstani descent
- German people of Ukrainian descent
- Soviet emigrants to Germany
- Naturalized citizens of Germany
- 21st-century German male opera singers
- 20th-century German male opera singers
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in France
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 2015
- German opera singer stubs