Solohub-Bocconi, Iryna

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Solohub-Bocconi, Iryna [Сологуб-Бокконі, Ірина], b 24 May 1885 in Neslukhiv, Kaminka-Strumylova county, Galicia, d 1972 in Milan, Italy. Opera singer (soprano). A graduate of the Lviv Conservatory (1905; pupil of C. Zaremba and Oleksander Myshuha), she made her debut in the Lviv Opera Theater in the name-part in Stanisław Moniuszko’s Halka. In 1906–14 she performed in Poznań and Milan, notably in the name-parts in Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida and La Traviata. She was also well known as a chamber singer in Lviv, Vienna, and a number of Italian cities, where she performed art songs by Mykola Lysenko, Anatol Vakhnianyn, and Ostap Nyzhankivsky; folk songs; and operatic arias. She retired from the stage in 1923.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]

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