An opera singer was killed in the ATO. Famous opera singer killed by sniper in eastern Ukraine

The deceased in the ATO zone in the Donbas turned out to be the brother of the Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan. The head of the ministry himself wrote about this on his Facebook page, without specifying, however. relation degree.

Omelyan shared his memories of the killed soldier and published his photographs.

"He was energetic, full of optimism. No matter what, no matter how difficult it was - he smiled, joked, looked at the sky. He walked forward. Two meters tall, a straight spine and the truth from his lips. He lived by what he did. Not he just sang, but he was the hero of the stage. So he fought. Without talking about the war itself. He loved friends and girlfriends, firmly cut off his enemies, lived in Ukraine, "Omelyan wrote.

“Once, in childhood, I pinched his finger with a door. The nail came off, and the new one grew badly. “A sign, my brother always thinks of you,” he laughed at the meeting and poked that finger.

Infinitely sociable, ready to give the last and just as carelessly come to you for a day, and stay or invite you for a few months, "said Omelyan.

He also wrote that at first Slipak did not admit that he was fighting in the ATO zone and refused help for a long time.

"The stage was his vocation. It was his Hollywood. He went to it from childhood. Dudarik, French Grand Prix, Paris Opera–the achievement is not only personal, but, as it seemed to us, the whole of Ukraine and our family," the minister also wrote.

Recall, who fought in the Donbass in the ranks of the DUK Right Sector Opera singer Basil

Yesterday, the Ukrainian media reported a sad event. Not far from the village of Luganskoye, early in the morning, at six in the morning, singer Vasily Slipak died from a sniper bullet. There was also a story about the fate of this man, his beliefs, that he was famous all over the world. His interview was repeated many times on television, in which the artist spoke about himself and called on all healthy men under the age of 50 to visit the ATO zone in order to make sure that the war would soon end, obviously victorious. This story would have been quite “pulling” for a high patriotic example, but ... The body of the singer had not yet sat down to be given to the earth, as some extremely unpleasant circumstances for the authorities turned out.

life path

You can treat it however you like. political views Vasily Slipak, but even the most staunch opponents of Ukrainian nationalism cannot refuse him honesty and sincerity. The singer certainly loved his country, albeit in his own way. For the sake of the triumph of the national idea, he left the opera stage and not just anywhere, but in Paris. There he sang arias, folk songs, he had fans, admirers, as well as fees for performances, according to Ukrainian concepts, simply astronomical. And not for the sake of earning, he returned to his homeland, but his heart called him. Vasily would not send home the inhabitants extracted from the broken houses Donetsk region refrigerators and televisions, he did not need it. On the contrary, he collected money for the ATO fighters and spent his own money, buying cars and all sorts of other things needed in the war. The singer lived abroad for almost two decades, and upon learning that Ukraine was attacked by an insidious enemy, he did not stand aside, but first became a volunteer, and then a warrior. Death cut this good fortune. This is how they roughly talk about Vasily Slipak on TV, unobtrusively hinting to all those liable for military service where their place is.

Slipak about military affairs

The television interview given by Vasily Slipak shortly before his death is very interesting to listen to. If an unknown sniper from the DPR knew whose "region of the lower body" he took at the intersection of optics, then, it can be assumed with a high degree of probability, he would have chosen a different target. The singer did not stay at the front for very long, a couple of weeks in total, and during this time he hardly managed to inflict any damage on the enemy, especially since he never served in the army and did not know military affairs at all. Moreover, Vasily did not consider that it was necessary. He told the journalist who asked him questions that the main thing in the war is not combat skills, but patriotism in the heart, and everything else is a simple matter. It was evident that he was not disingenuous, but said what he thought. in a strange way these thoughts are related to general principles Ukrainian army, which, of course, is increasingly contract system, but there are no more professionals in it. Officers are "retrained" for a month, and any, from supply to gunners. Where the shells fired by such "specialists" fly is known to many residents of Donbass from those who survived, of course.

Official losses

According to the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, less than three thousand servicemen died during the military conflict in the East of Ukraine. Well, maybe a little more, if you take into account the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service, the National Guard and border guards. Nevertheless, a year ago, when asked about the real number of dead, officers who had been in the war answered without a shadow of a doubt: “at least a dozen,” meaning, of course, thousands. Mournful processions passed through the streets of different settlements, messages about large-scale "boilers" replaced one another, entire military groups fell into the environment, losing a significant part of the personnel during the evacuation. And today people continue to die, soldiers and officers, volunteers and mobilized, including by force. All these facts do not confirm the official figures. The data is clearly underestimated, and implausible, which gives grounds for the most gloomy assumptions, perhaps even overestimated.

And here deceased singer? A little patience.

Where did volunteer Slipak serve?

Vasily Slipak did not fight in some part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but in a completely different armed formation. In the mentioned interview, with artistic cunning, he hinted that in fact “they are not there”, and expressed fears about the possibility of returning to France again, since such actions are not welcome in the European Union. In these bold speeches, the singer actually acknowledged his status as a mercenary. He fought in the DUK (volunteer Ukrainian corps) of the "Right Sector", banned in Russia, by the way, or rather in his seventh battalion. This unit enjoys a particularly bad reputation among the LPR militia, they are fighting for complete destruction, and, as a rule, they do not take prisoners in battles with them.

DUK and its role in the war

Again, unlike ordinary mobilized and even those who voluntarily came to the Ukrainian military registration and enlistment offices to sign a contract for service, sometimes forcedly, for lack of other means of subsistence (this phenomenon is not uncommon now), “right-wingers” are convinced people. They do not fight for money, although they receive some kind of support, of course, but for an idea. They are indispensable in this very ATO, their command, as they say, “plugs holes”, they are sent to reconnaissance, some kind of raids and other dangerous enterprises, where you can’t lure ordinary Armed Forces officers even with a roll. There are few Right Sector fighters, but they are always at the forefront of events marked on tactical topographic maps. And if the death and even injury of every soldier is now an event that is reported on the Internet and on television, then members of volunteer formations are dying without a trace. As Slipak said, "they just aren't there." Of course, he chatted a lot of superfluous things and in passing gave out an important state secret, but what to take from him is an artist. Especially now.

Slipak charges the magazine and sings, sings...

This video is very popular, it is viewed by many. The opera singer sits at an impromptu table, in front of him is a handful of cartridges, he rhythmically snaps them into the magazine of the Kalashnikov assault rifle and hums a Ukrainian folk song. He really has a very pleasant voice, rich in nuances, and not just falling under some generally accepted operatic standards, but a very rare countertenor. With his small concerts, Vasily sometimes entertained his colleagues, they especially liked the patriotic repertoire. So this video recorded a similar moment, almost everyday, but not without a touch of artistry. The patriots like this scene, they think that, they say, Slipak is sitting, humming, the store fills up, and then he will take the machine gun and “separate everyone”. It turned out the other way around, but the enemies new Ukraine there is no reason for gloating. With his death, the artist of the Parisian theater "Opera Bastille" revealed a secret mechanism that allows you to underestimate the real losses of the Ukrainian side, and something else.

Low Loss Secret

O world fame The Ukrainian media, of course, somewhat exaggerated Slipak, the singer most often performed parts in secondary theaters, signed two or three contracts annually, and he was not invited to La Scala, but he had a certain fame, as well as very beautiful voice. After he died, someone came up with the idea to compare this fact with the daily report, in which the command lists the wounded and killed per day. Vasily Slipak was not in it. He was nowhere at all. The Right Sector does not count the dead. Sometimes, when the corpse is obtained by volunteers, fallen hero brought to native city and arrange a magnificent funeral, as a rule, at their own expense. Slipak will be buried in Lviv, this has already been reported, a celebrity after all. So rarely does anyone get lucky ...

Who is shooting?

Another moment, which, perhaps, will lead to a real discovery, and the death of the singer Vasily Slipak is again to blame. Since there is no “Right Sector” anywhere, no one monitors its compliance with the Minsk agreements. But after all, someone is shooting near the Sands, Avdeevka and on the Svetlodarskaya Bulge? It can be assumed that it is they who are heroic and cover themselves with unfading glory, those "who are not there."

It remains only to express condolences to the parents and brother of Mith (a pseudonym in honor of the beloved opera character Vasil Slipak, Mephistopheles). He sang beautifully. The earth rest in peace to him ...

VASILY SLIPAK. LIFE ON A HIGH NOTE

This opera singer considered the part of Mephistopheles in the opera Faust by Charles Gounod to be his favorite, and therefore he got a consonant nickname - Myth. But he lived his life, albeit short, but as heroic as mythological characters. He gave the audience the rarest and most exceptional singing art. He was considered a real vocal miracle, and many teachers simply dreamed of working with Vasily in their class.

The dream of educators

He was an extremely gifted opera singer, possessing a subtle and boundless vocal vibrato that drove the audience crazy. It was impossible to understand how such a powerful voice fit into such a slender and young performer. Eminent teachers did not even want to classify his voice, calling it unique. In his forties, he was a well-known opera singer throughout Europe, performed leading roles in many productions, had amazing prospects, but when the war broke out in his homeland, he could not stand aside ...

Lviv Talent

Born in Lviv in 1974. Parents instilled in him respect and love for native land, for him the words "honor" and "dignity" were not empty. He grew up as a responsible, fair, purposeful and not at all hooligan young man. No one in the family was professionally involved in music, but grandfather had vocals of amazing purity and power. Therefore, Vasily had someone to inherit talent from. On his creative development influenced by the older brother Orestes. It was he who took the nine-year-old Vasily to the famous Lviv academic choir "Dudarik". The founder and leader of the group, Nikolai Katsal, became a significant figure in the work of the aspiring singer. The repertory works of the chapel shaped the taste and worldview Vasily Slipak. He performed works Ukrainian composers the golden era of the genre choral concert a cappella. Also, as part of Dudarik, Vasily participated in the recording of records and joint concerts with eminent Ukrainian performers. The guys even visited the famous New York Carnegie Hall with performances.

Not all at once

Surprisingly, having a rather rare voice (countertenor), Vasily did not manage to enter the Lviv Music Institute (now it is the Lviv National Academy of Music) the first time. Slipak did not lose faith in himself, he performed a lot, began touring, met many musicians, composers and conductors. In 1992, a stubborn young man proved his right to be among the students of the institute and entered the course of Professor Maria Baiko. Under her leadership, Vasily expanded his repertoire with works by Ukrainian and European composers. He has always participated in student concerts, demonstrated his chic voice, thanks to which the teachers predicted him a dizzying career.

French chance of Vasily Slipak

Soon creative destiny Vasily Slipak made a sharp turn. This time, again, it was not without the help of his older brother Orestes. In 1994, he went to France for a congress of cardiologists. In Paris, he was lucky to meet the staff of the editorial office " Ukrainian word". The weekly was headed by Doctor of Medicine, Professor Yaroslav Musyanovich. He introduced Orestes to the composer Marian Kuzan and strongly recommended that he leave the cassette with the recording of the younger brother. A month later Vasily Slipak invited to one of the largest music festivals in the city of Clermont-Ferrand.

In addition to his program, the singer also prepared Handel's cantatas, The Matthew Passion and The John Passion. The young man performed French, German songs and Italian arias in the original language and was awarded the Grand Prix of the competition and the Grand Prix of Audience Choice. In addition, he was the only contestant who performed compositions on mother tongue. His debut in France became a real sensation. Critics wrote rave reviews about the Ukrainian operatic talent in newspapers, his vocal abilities enchanted the public, and famous teachers of the Paris Academy organized an audition for him. Everyone unanimously recognized the originality of Vasily's voice, which put an end to the dispute about whether it is worth singing a baritone and a countertenor at the same time. That's how one competition became a milestone in creative life Slipak.

Test by contests

After that, he had the opportunity to present his program to the Parisian public. In 1994, the young singer gave solo concert at the French Vichy Opera. That evening, works of Ukrainian folk music sounded on the stage.

At the international music festival"Kyiv Music Fest" in the same year, accompanied by chamber orchestra performed Alexander Kozarenko's cantata "Pierrot Dead Loop". The audience was delighted and called Vasily for an encore. At a concert of modern chamber music it happened for the first time. A few months later, as part of the International Festival contemporary art in Odessa, Slipak again performed this chamber cantata. And again success, the work sounded here twice.

The talent and unique voice of Vasily were also appreciated by the guests international festival musical art"Virtuosi", which was held in Lviv in 1995. Together with his native Dudarik Choir and soprano Bogdana Khidchenko, he performed two parts at once in the famous cantata German composer Carl Orff "Carmina Burana"

Leading parties

He easily performed both folk music and the most difficult opera parts. received leading roles in Le nozze di Figaro and Don Juan, Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin and. But more than others, he liked the image of Mephistopheles from the opera Faust.

As part of a concert tour of Europe in 2008, he performed with chamber works in cathedrals and ancient palaces, opera houses and drama theaters, the largest concert halls and cultural centers. He collaborated with famous orchestras and conductors.

No matter what stage he went on, he everywhere fascinated the audience with his marvelous vocal culture and peculiar voice. It seemed that from the first seconds he was concentrating the attention of the public on himself, striking her, causing the widest range of emotions. Of course, appearance and invariable gallantry helped him to become this. Naturalness, artistry and expressiveness were inherent in him. Despite the fact that he harmoniously sounded in the choir, the soloist still prevailed in him. He skillfully mastered special reception vocal performance"mezza voce" (quiet, incomplete sound), which required a high level of professionalism and technical skill.

Personal example

For almost twenty years he lived in France, where he performed at the Paris National Opera. Rare vocal abilities allowed the singer to make a successful career in Europe solo career. He had everything to be real an opera star: a unique timbre of voice, attractiveness and aristocracy in manners. He performed at best scenes France, Italy, Poland and USA. But when the home began fighting, firmly decided that an operatic career could wait. Relatives know that he could not and did not want to live half, to abstract from what was happening was unthinkable for him. And everyone else still cannot understand what the brilliant opera performer forgot in the trenches of Donbass. It was his personal example of self-sacrifice in the name of the country, which he infinitely loved, and his people.

Front-line everyday life of Vasily Slipak

During the Revolution of Dignity, he could not come to Ukraine - in France he signed a contract with opera house. But even there he did everything in his power - he organized actions in support of his country, gave charity concerts, to raise funds, he was a volunteer, helped the fighters, and then he himself joined one of the volunteer battalions. Vasily went to Donbass, to know about the war not from newspapers and the Internet. He took the call sign "Myth", and many soldiers did not even know that an opera star was fighting next to them, because Slipak did not like to talk about himself at all. On the page in social network he asked to help the wounded and the families of the dead, only for this he turned to people. Vasily did not flaunt everything he did for the sake of the fighters.

Returning from the Donbass, he continued charity concerts, together with the Ukrainian diaspora in France, provided assistance to children whose parents were taken away by the war. And in the summer of 2016, he again went to the east of the country.

"Myth" and reality

When journalists learned that there was an opera singer at the front, they immediately began to shoot all kinds of stories about him. did not refuse interviews, but always said that he did not give them for his own PR. Thus, he wanted to convey his position to people, support those who had lost faith, and attract help for the fighters.

2016 sniper bullet ended life Vasily Slipak. The singer's voice was silent forever, but it will sound in the memory of connoisseurs of his talent.

DATA

In 2011, the singer decided to try his hand at the international opera competition Armel, the jury of which had to select several candidates for the leading roles in five productions with the best theater scenes the cities of New York, Krakow, Szeged, Pilsen and Bol. After several rounds of competition received the right to participate in the final of the prestigious opera "competition". At the winners' concert, he performed the Toreador's aria from the opera and won the prize for the best male performance.

At times when Vasily Slipak a unique countertenor had just begun to appear, he imitated with Yuri Kolas at one of the rehearsals of the Dudarik choir and which performed famous composition"Barcelona". The rest of the chapel singers liked it so much that at every opportunity they asked the guys to sing again.

Updated: April 7, 2019 by: Elena

The singer of the Paris Opera Vasily Slipak, who fought in the ranks of the banned in Russia "Right Sector" in the Donbass, was killed by a sniper from a large-caliber rifle, Ukrainian media reported.

A member of the banned in Russia radical group "Right Sector *" was shot dead at about 6.00 in the area of ​​​​the village of Luganskoye, reports Ukrainian TV channel Hromadske TV. Official data on the death of Slipak has not yet been confirmed.

On Wednesday the Ambassador special assignments Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba said that the Ukrainian opera singer Vasily Slipak in Donbass; according to media reports, he fought in the ranks of the radical grouping "Right Sector" banned in Russia.

Slipak was born in the Lviv region. Pupil of Lviv choir chapel"Dudarik". Graduated from the Lviv Conservatory (now the Lysenko Academy of Music) in 1997. In 1994 he won a competition in the French city of Clermont. After that, he traveled to France for two years, singing there, until in 1996 he was offered to stay in the country forever. After completing his studies in Lviv, he was invited to the Paris Opera. He made a serious solo career in Europe. Passed to the finals of competitions in Budapest, Los Angeles, New York and Paris.

With the beginning of the revolution in Ukraine, Slipak abandoned his European career and returned to his homeland. Took part in the Maidan. Then he volunteered. Subsequently, Slipak went to fight as part of the seventh separate battalion of the Right Sector volunteer corps and joined Kyiv's military operation in the Donbass. I chose the call sign "Myth" (this is short for Mephistopheles from the opera "Faust").

At the end of hostilities, as Slipak admitted, he would like to return to work in France.

Right Sector is a Ukrainian association of radical nationalist organizations. In January and February 2014, the militants of the movement participated in clashes with law enforcement officers and the seizure of administrative buildings, and since April - in the suppression of protests in eastern Ukraine. In November 2014, the Supreme Court of Russia recognized the right-wing radical association as an extremist organization and banned its activities in the country. In January 2015, the Right Sector was included in the register of organizations banned in Russia.

Since mid-April 2014, the Kyiv authorities in the East of Ukraine launched a "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. According to the UN at the beginning of June 2016, at least 9.3 thousand people and 21.5 thousand have been injured since the beginning of the conflict in Donbass.

* An organization in respect of which a court has made a final decision to liquidate or ban activities on the grounds provided for by the Federal Law "On countering extremist activity"