also appeared in opera performances at a variety of companies around the country, from Pasadena, California to Baltimore, Maryland. Among his many performances was his annual participation as Brigham Young in the Mormon historical pageant "All Faces West" . Notable future performances included portrayals of Rigoletto on the television program NBC Opera Theatre in 1958 and Giorgio Germont with NBC again in 1960. He appeared with Boris Christoff in 1962 at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, directed by Vladimir Rosing. Rosing also directed Gorin in The Student Prince at the Hollywood Bowl that same year. In 1963 Gorin sang with the New York City Opera, as Rigoletto, and Giorgio Germont in La traviata (opposite Beverly Sills). He made one guest appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in La Traviata in 1964. Retirement and later life For reasons of declining health, Igor Gorin retired from the concert stage and in 1966, he became a professor of music at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He died as a result of cancer at the age of 77 on March 24, 1982, in Tucson. References Hall, Clarence W. "Igor Gorin's Song of America." Reader's Digest (January 1956) 1904 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Austrian male opera singers Jewish opera singers 20th-century American male opera singers American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent Operatic baritones American music educators Voice teachers Viennese hazzans Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Austro-Hungarian Jews Austrian emigrants to the United States People from Horodok, Lviv Oblast People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Deaths from cancer in Arizona