Autographed 5” x 7” double-weight matte, original photograph of the great bass as Dosifei in Khovanschina at the Bolshoi.  

 Petrov (1920 - 2003) studied at the Moscow Theater and Music School from 1938-1941. He then went to the Russian School of theater Arts in Moscow where he studied with the baritone Anatoly Mineev.  While in school he sung as a soloist in Moscow Philharmonic concerts and also performed with Ivan Kozlovsky's travelling State Opera Ensemble of the USSR. 

From November 1942-April 1943 he was conscripted into the Army and sent to the front where he gave morale concerts. His auspicious Bolshoi debut occured later in 1943 and he remained with the company as the leading bass until 1970.  As a soloist he gave recitals in the USSR, France, Great Britain, Yugoslavia, Finland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Romania, Italy, Spain and the United States. In 1954 he was the first Russian singer after Chaliapin invited to sing at Opera de Paris.  Petrov also tried his hand a film actor as Zeb Stump in the Russian version of the "Headless Horseman".  He also has a catalog of 90 solo recordings.

Great image!

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