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Ivan Rebroff
A bass voice with a range exceeding four octaves, Ivan Rebroff has enjoyed
success in interpreting traditional Russian songs and a variety of arias. Born
Hans Rolf Rippert in Berlin on July 31, 1931, he grew up in the Spandau
district, then in Belzig and Halle, where he sang in the town choir, before
studying from 1951 to 1959 at the Hamburg State University of Music. Of Russian
origin, as he may or may not have claimed, he learned the Eastern European folk
repertoire from his teacher Adolf Detel, which enabled him to join the Black Sea
Cossack Choir and the Ural Cossack Choir. A...
