Andrij Vsevolod Dobriansky (born 1930) is a Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 bass-baritone opera

Opera

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 and folk

Folk music

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 singer who performed with the Metropolitan Opera

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 in New York City

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Dobriansky was born in Ukraine and emigrated to the United States

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in 1956, where he studied in New York and toured the USA with the Ukrainian Dumka Choir, and performed as a solo artist singing Ukrainian folk songs.

In 1970 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, where he had made 905 appearances by January 1996.