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11.02.2000 First Day Cover: 1 stamp Issue Date: 11/2/2000 Colour: multicolored Printing: Offset printing on chalked paper Size: 28 x 40mm Perforation: Comb 13½ x 13½ Designs: K30 Oksana Petrusenko Sheet: 36 (6x6) Quantity: 200,000 Designer: Kateryna Shtanko Printers: Derzhznak, Ukraine Petrusenko Oksana Andreevna (Real surname is Borodavkina. She was born in 5 (18) February 1900 in village Balakleya (now the city in Charkiv’s oblast), she was dead in 15 July 1940 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian singer (lyrico-dramatic soprano), National actress of USSR (from 1939). She began her artistic activity at the beginning of 1918 in Kherson Musical-Dramatic Theatre. Her teachers were E. Luchitskaya and I. Sagatovskiy (stage art), and bandmaster P. Boychenko (singing). During 1923-24, she sang in D. Gaydamaki’s, I. Sagatovskiy’s, P. Kovalenko, and V. Krasenko’s troupes. She studied in Kyiv N. V. Lysenko Musico-Dramatic Institute in 1923-24. Saksaganskiy was her teacher of stage art. In 1927-34 was a soloist of opera theatres in Kasan, Samara (Kuybyshev), and Sverdlovsk. Since 1934 was a leading soloist of Kyiv State Shevchenko Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. The best parts were 'Natalka (Natalka Poltavka' Lysenko), Odarka ('Zaporozhets behind the Danube' Gulak-Artemovskiy), Lisa, Mariya, Oksana ('the Queen of spades', 'Mazepa', 'Cherevichki' Chaykovskiy), Natasha ('Rusalka' Dargomyzhskogo), Kupava ('Snegurochka' Pimskiy-Korsakov), Yaroslavna ('Prince Igor' Borodin), Zemfira ('Aleko'Rakhmaninov), Aida, Toska (Verdi, Puchinni), Nedda ('Payatsy'Leonkavallo).  | ||
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