Mgr. Serguei Nikitine

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Serguei Nikitine was born in Novosibirsk, Russia, on February 4, 1961, the only son to a family of an economics college teacher and a business executive. Because of the bans in Russia, he did not know his own family history for a long time. It was only in the early 1990s, at the time of Boris Yeltsin‘s accession to the presidency, that his father spoke for the first time about his grandfather‘s Ukrainian-Jewish origins and his exile to Siberia after the „dismemberment“ and confiscation of all his property. From a young age, the witness was powerfully attracted to music, and his mother supported him in his passion. He attended a choir school, studied conducting at the music conservatory and opera singing at the academy in Novosibirsk. In his final year at the music academy, he was already a member of the local Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, where he performed as an opera singer for 11 seasons. In 1991 he married, and six years later emigrated to Israel with his wife and young son. Despite the tense security situation in Israel, he felt free as he had never felt before. He began performing abroad, traveling to New York for three years to study opera singing. In 2003 his daughter was born, and a year later he settled with his family in Proboštov, Teplice, where he still lives today (2023). He is a member of the opera choir of the North Bohemian Theatre in Ústí nad Labem.