Vasyl Slipak

Vasyl Yaroslavovych Slipak (, December 20, 1974 – June 29, 2016) was a Ukrainian baritone opera singer. From 1994, he performed in France at such venues as Paris Opéra and Opéra Bastille. For his opera performance, Slipak received several awards, including "Best Male Performance" for the Toreador Song. Hero of Ukraine.

 Repertoire 
 Escamillo / Carmen / Georges Bizet
 Figaro / The Marriage of Figaro / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Ramfis / Aida / Giuseppe Verdi
 Boris Godunov / Boris Godunov / Modest Mussorgsky
 Igor Svyatoslavich / Prince Igor / Alexander Borodin
 Prince Gremin / Eugene Onegin / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 Il Commendatore (Don Pedro), Masetto / Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Lindorf, Dapertutto, Coppélius, Miracle / The Tales of Hoffmann / Jacques Offenbach
 Sparafucile / Rigoletto / Giuseppe Verdi
 Sarastro, Speaker of the temple, Three priests / The Magic Flute / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Don Giovanni / Don Giovanni / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Colline / La bohème / Giacomo Puccini
 Méphistophélès / Faust / Charles Gounod 
 Banco / Macbeth / Giuseppe Verdi
 Mainfroid, a Sicilian, adherent of Procida / Les vêpres siciliennes / Giuseppe Verdi
 Philippe II / Don Carlos / Giuseppe Verdi
 Basilio / The Barber of Seville / Gioachino Rossini
 Ralph / La jolie fille de Perth / Georges Bizet
 Count Rodolfo / La sonnambula / Vincenzo Bellini
 Don Alfonso / Così fan tutte / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Demon / The Demon / Anton Rubinstein
 Forester, Badger, Harašta, the poacher / The Cunning Little Vixen / Leoš Janáček
 Death, Loudspeaker / Der Kaiser von Atlantis / Viktor Ullmann

Death
Following the outbreak of the pro-Russian insurgency in Donbas, Slipak returned to Ukraine and joined in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution. In 2015, Slipak joined the fights against pro-Russian insurgents as a member of the 7th Battalion of the Volunteer Ukrainian Corps of the Right Sector.

On 29 June 2016, Slipak was killed by a sniper shot near Luhanske, Bakhmut Raion. He was aged 41.

References

Category:1974 births
Category:2016 deaths
Category:Ukrainian singers
Category:Musicians from Lviv