Oh NICOLAI GEDDA WITH M ROSTROPOVICH piano TCHAIKOWSKY LENSKY ARIA LIVE 1977 RARE
POOR Nicolai Harry Gustav Gedda was born in Stockholm to a Swedish mother and a halfRussian father. Gedda was raised by his aunt Olga Gedda and his adoptive father Mihail Ustinov (a distant relative of Peter Ustinov), who sang bass in Serge Jaroff s Don Cossack Choir and was cantor in a Russian Orthodox church. Gedda grew up bilingual in Swedish and Russian. From 1929 to 1934 they lived in Leipzig, Germany, where young Nicolai learned German. They returned to Sweden after Hitler came to pow br, br,
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