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. [1] Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, [2] he moved to Germany in 1991 [3] to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. [4] From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. [5]
Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld. [3]
Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner and 148 others 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. [6] [7] [8] [9]
Oleg Bryjak | |
---|---|
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. [1] Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, [2] he moved to Germany in 1991 [3] to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. [4] From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. [5]
Bryjak had been a protodeacon in a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Krefeld. [3]
Bryjak died on 24 March 2015 along with his colleague Maria Radner and 148 others 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. [6] [7] [8] [9]