
Mark Osipovich Reizen (1895-1992) was a leading Soviet-era opera singer with a beautiful and expansive bass voice. Reizen was born into a Jewish family of mine workers in 1895. He had four brothers and a sister, and all were musically trained, playing mandolin, guitar, balalaika and accordion. He served as a soldier in the First World War. Then he studied as an engineer, but also as a singer at the Kharkiv conservatory with the Italian professor Federico Bugamelli in 1919-1920.
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Песня о Щорсе
Song of Artillerymen
Марш артиллеристов
Заветный камень
Khovanshchina: Act 5, Introduction & Monologue of Dosifey "Zdes' na yetom meste"
Eugene Onegin: Act 3, Scene 1, Gremin's Aria "Lyubvi vse vozrasty pokorny"
Il lacerato spirito (sung in russian) (Simon Boccanegra)
Oh, the Roads...
Pesnja artilleristov
Invocation (sung in russian) (Faust)
Le veau d´or (sung in russian) (Faust)
Ne Iskushay Menya Bez Nuzhdy (Don't Tempt Me Without Need)
I am he whom you called (The Demon) (sung in russian)
Against the cruel rocks (sung in russian) (Sadko)
Faust - Le Veau D'or (Gounod)
Песня артиллеристов
Sadko: Scene IV,song Of The Varangian Guest - "O Skaly Groznye Drobyatsya S Ryovom Volny"
Ella giammai m´amo (Don Carlo)
Партизанка
Poputnaya Pesnya (Travel Song)
Wotan´s Farewell and Magic Fire Music (sung in russian) (Die Walküre)
Но дело не в этом, друзья
Na Starom Kurgane (On an Ancient Barrow)
I have attained power (sung in russian) (Boris Godunov)
O tu Palermo (I vespri siciliani)
Everyone knows love on earth (sung in russian) (Eugene Onegin)
O say, ye fields (sung in russian) (Ruslan and Ludmilla)
They guess the truth (sung in russian) (A life for the Tsar)
Aleko´s Cavatina (sung in russian) (Aleko)
Zavetny kamen
Medlitelno Vlekutsya Dni Moi (My Days Slowly Pass By)
Death of Boris (sung in russian) (Boris Godunov)
Chto Smolknul Veseliya Glas (Why Did the Voice of Merriment Go Silent?)
Airs d’Opéra Russes: Faust, La Ronde du Veau d'Or - 1950
Vous, qui faites l´endormie (sung in russian) (Faust)
The old Gypsy`s tale (sung in russian) (Aleko)
Mozart and Salieri: Scene II, Salieri's Monologue III - "Ty zasnesh nadolgo, Mozart!"
Already the hour of my triumph (sung in russian) (Ruslan and Ludmilla)
Ah, you young girls (sung in russian) (Rusalka)
Dositheus Aria (sung in russian) (Khovanshchina)
Dva Velikana (Two Giants)
Listya Shumeli (Leaves Rustled in the Wind)
In great Novgorod there lived a simpleton (sung in russian) (Sadko)
Strike up, my gusli (sung in russian) (Sadko)
A Life for the Tsar: Act I, Trio
No delo ne v etom, druzja
Are you well, Prince (sung in russian) (Prince Igor)
La Calunnia (sung in russian) (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Salvator Rosa: Act III - Di Sposo, Di Padre
Di sposo, di padre (Salvator Rosa, Act III)
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