Petar Raichev
or Peter Raitscheff, as he was transliterated by the Germans
Petar Raichev as Eleazar
Raichev as Werther
In RA format
In RA format
In RA format
In RA format
Biographical notes
Petar Raichev was born on March 9th, 1887 near Sofia. At first he took private
singing lessons with the well-known Bulgarian singer – bass and teacher –
Ivan Vulpe, and then at the conservatory in Moscow with Umberto Masetti. In 1912,
he consulted De Lucia in Naples. Petar Raichev made his debut in 1908
with the Bulgarian Opera Company. In 1912, Raichev sang successfully
at the San Carlo. From 1913 to 1920, he was the soloist of the Petersburg Theatre
of Musical Drama. From 1920, Raichev sang regularly in Europe (Italy, France,
Yugoslavia), and quite often sang with Shaljapin. In 1934/35, he was a soloist
and stage director at the Zagreb opera.
From 1936, Raichev sang occasionally in Bulgaria, and from 1944 he was a stage director
there. His acting was compared to Stanislavskij.
Raichev was a professor at the Sofia conservatory.
He died in Sofia on August 30th, 1960. Among his best roles were: José, Werther,
Rodolfo, Canio, Calaf, Nemorino, Lenskij, Sinodal (in Demon by Rubinstein), and German.
I wish to thank Vladimir Efimenko for the pictures, biographical notes and recordings (Mignon in Bulgarian, Rimpianto and Luisa Miller).
I wish to thank Anton Bieber for the recordings (Rigoletto, Mignon in Italian, 2x Tosca) and
relative label scans.
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