Nikandr Sergeevich Khanaev |

Nikandr Khanaev

People’s Artist of the USSR (1951). In 1921-24 he studied at the Moscow Conservatory with L. G. Zvyagina. In 1925 he worked at the Opera Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre, and from 1926-54 he was a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre.

Khanaev is a singer of great stage and musical culture. The originality of his talent was especially clearly manifested in the Russian classical opera repertoire; was a famous performer of the parts of Herman (Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades) and Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko). Other roles include Shuisky (Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov), José (Bizet’s Carmen), Otello (Verdi’s Othello), Grigory Melekhov (Dzerzhinsky’s Quiet Flows the Don).

In 1948-50 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Laureate of the Stalin Prizes (1943, 1949, 1950).