Hryshko, Mykhailo

Hryshko, Mykhailo [Гришко, Михайло; Hryško, Myxajlo], b 27 February 1901 in Mariupol, Katerynoslav gubernia, d 3 June 1973 in Kyiv. Opera singer (baritone). A graduate of the Odesa School of Music (1926), he was soloist at the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theater (1924–7), the Kharkiv Theater of Opera and Ballet (1927–36), and the Kyiv Theater of Opera and Ballet (1936–64). In 1934–5 and 1941–4 he sang at the opera in Tbilisi. His repertoire included the roles of Mykola in Mykola Lysenko’s Natalka Poltavka, Ostap in the same composer’s Taras Bulba, Figaro in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and the title roles in Kostiantyn Dankevych’s Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Aleksandr Borodin’s Prince Igor, and Verdi’s Rigoletto. A biography of Hryshko, written by Illia Stebun, was published in 1958.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 2 (1988).]