Arthur Eizen

Artur Arturovich Eizen (Russian: Артур Артурович Эйзен; (Moscow 8 June 1927 – Moscow 26 February 2008), was a Soviet and Russian bass singer, actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1976).

He was born into a family of Latvian revolutionaries, and his family was also musical; his father was a violinist. After leaving school in 1944 he joined the Shchukin Theatre School at the Stanislavski… More