/ world at this time information/ At this time marks precisely 100 years because the start of the nice opera bass Boris Hristov. On this event, BNT opened the file of Boris Hristov, a case of State Safety.
“In my life, at important moments, I’ve all the time stated, ‘You solely stay as soon as on this world.’ Be frank and converse the reality that you just can’t be afraid of.” These are the phrases of the nice singer, which will probably be broadcast in a documentary tonight.
Prime Secret. January 24, 1949 Ward One. I decree: To open the private file of the individual Boris Hristov. That is how the file of the “primary bass” on the planet, properly acquired on the earth and lengthy undesirable in his homeland, was found.
There are nonetheless witnesses and paperwork – of the music and of the previous secret companies that observe him, “arrest” correspondence to his kinfolk and stop him from assembly with them. Boris Hristov graduated in legislation in Sofia and in 1942 went to review singing in Italy with a scholarship from the royal palace.
He usually ate as soon as a day with the beggars within the canteen of the Vatican, lived by the conflict and a Nazi labor camp, however within the seventh 12 months of his wanderings he was on the stage of La Scala and Covent Backyard. The Iron Curtain separates him from his youthful love – Penka Kasabova, Geo Milev’s sister, and he meets Franca de Renzis, who turns into his spouse. American companies cease him from singing at “Metropolitan” due to the McCarthy Act. However Boris Hristov stays the massive winner. His Boris Godunov and Philip II are second to none.
There are legends about his character. A bohemian and a knight, a demanding workaholic, a person of causes. He by no means says a nasty phrase about his homeland, though he’s allowed to return for the primary time solely after 20 years.
“The motives for his return are unknown to us,” the key informers puzzled, however the presence of such an artist will probably be of nice profit to our folks. And Boris Hristov will insist for a very long time to not less than make recordings in Bulgaria, since he was by no means allowed to the Sofia Opera. Then he’ll ask to be buried in his homeland and can donate his home in Sofia and in Rome to the Bulgarian state, in order that gifted Bulgarians could be educated there. This concept was additionally not understood for years, says his devoted pal Nino Lukanov from Stara Zagora: “And the ominous information got here on June 28, 1993 about his dying. That is what they referred to as him – “The voice that begs God for Bulgaria”.
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