Cantor Aaron Yitzchok Steinberg Z"L - Kol Nidre

Brother of Cantor David Moshe Steinberg Arnold A. Georgievskij 1882 (?) – 1960 He was born on 26 December 1889 (or, perhaps more probably with regard to his 1910 debut, 1882) in Chişinău, which was part of Tsarist Russia at the time, and where almost 50 percent of the population were Jewish. So was Aron Itzhak Steinberg, who later chose an Ukrainian stage name: "Arnold A. Georgievskij". He studied singing with Professor K. Kotzebue and later with Giuseppe Anselmi in Milan. He made his debut at the Odessa opera (then called Sibirjakov Theater) in 1910, sang in Saint Petersburg (Luna Park, 1912), Vilnius (1912), and then throughout Italy for many years, mostly at smaller theaters, but also at La Scala or the Teatro Costanzi. In Italy, his appeared as Arnoldo Georgevsky. He was the first Prunier at the world premiere of La rondine in Monte Carlo. His career lasted into the 1930s. The 1929/30 season found him in Bucharest. He is said to have lived in Romania towards or after the end of his career, but the assertion that he died there in 1935 is wrong: before WWII, he emigrated to New York City, where his elder brother David Moshe Steinberg was a successful cantor. While David Moshe died in 1941, Aron Itzhak (i.e. Georgievskij) lived on – obviously as a voice teacher, verifiably in Philadelphia in 1955 – until 1960, when he died on December 12th in extreme poverty, in or near New York. He is buried on Cedar Park/Beth El Cemetery in Paramus, New Jersey. His repertory included: Faust, Lenskij, Edgardo, Duca, Alfredo, Cavaradossi, ... His partners included: E. Bobrova, V. A. Seljavin, M. Sokolskij, P. I. Tsesevich, A. P. Chaleeva, Romano Ciaroff-Ciarini