Sidor Belarsky American opera singer (bass) Date of Birth: 12.02.1898 Country: USA

Biography of Sidor Belarsky

Sidor Belarsky was an American opera singer (bass) and performer of Yiddish songs. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory and in 1930 he went to the United States upon the invitation of Franklin Harris, the rector of Brigham Young University, who had attended one of Belarsky's concerts in the USSR earlier that year.

Until the end of his life, Belarsky taught at Brigham Young University and at the Herzliah Academy in New York. He performed in opera theaters in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. His recording of the song "Tears of a Miller" (dem milners trern) in Yiddish, with lyrics by M.M. Varshavsky, is featured in the Coen Brothers' film "A Serious Man." This song is a reminiscence of the forced resettlement of many Jews from the villages of Tsarist Russia.