Yuskiv, Teodor

Yuskiv, Teodor [Юськів, Теодор; Jus'kiv; pseud: Teren], b 1911 in Potochyshche, Horodenka county, Galicia, d 7 July 2010 in USA. Opera singer (baritone). He studied voice with Adam Didur in Lviv and made his debut with the Lviv Opera (see Lviv National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet) in Gaetano Donizetti’s La Favorita in 1937. He performed in such operas as Giusseppe Verdi’s La Traviata and Rigoletto, Giacomo Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and Georges Bizet’s Carmen, in Poland, Germany, Norway, and France. After the Second World War he gave concerts in Germany, and in 1949 he emigrated to the United States of America. He wrote Natsional'no-derzhavna motyvatsiia tvorchosty S. Liudkevycha (The National-Statist Motivation of the Work of Stanyslav Liudkevych, 1984) and contributed music criticism to the Ukrainian press.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]