Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky

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Boris Alexandrovich Pokrovsky ( Russian Борис Александрович Покровский ., Scientific transliteration Boris Pokrovsky Aleksandrovič ; born January 10 . Jul / 23. January  1912 greg. In Moscow , † 5. June 2009 ) was a major Soviet-Russian opera director and educator. He decisively shaped the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.

Life

Grave of Boris Aleksandrovič Pokrovskij in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow (2014)

Boris Aleksandrovič Pokrovskij attended the directing faculty of the State Institute for Theater Arts in Moscow. After graduating, he first worked in Minsk and Sverdlovsk . In 1937 he became a director at the theater in Gorki . In 1939 he took over the artistic direction.

From 1943 he worked as a director at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater . He served there from 1952 to 1963 and from 1970 to 1982 as the main director. In total he staged 42 Russian and modern operas a. a. Eugene Onegin (1944) by Peter Tchaikovsky , Mainacht (1947), Sadko (1949) and Snow Maiden (1954) by Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow , Des Feindes Macht (1947) by Alexander Serow , Semjon Kotko (1970) by Sergei Prokofjew , Ruslan and Ljudmila (1972) by Michail Glinka and The Bartered Bride (1948) by Bedřich Smetana , Aida (1951), La traviata (1953) and Otello (1978) by Giuseppe Verdi and Le nozze di Figaro (1956) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . He was also responsible for the Russian premiere of Prokofiev's The Gambler (1974) and the world premiere of Shchedrin's Dead Souls (1977).

He was also responsible for the staged world premiere of Prokofiev's War and Peace (1946) at the Maly Theater in Leningrad. In 1957 he directed the play at the National Opera and Ballet Theater in Sofia . From 1972 he directed the Moscow Chamber Music Theater he founded , where he a. a. Not only love (1973) by Rodion Shchedrin and the long forbidden opera Die Nase (1974) directed by Dmitri Shostakovich . In 1991 he was responsible for the world premiere of the short version of the opera Der Ideot by Mieczysław Weinberg . Guest performances also took him to the western world. In 1992, he brought in Amsterdam Life with an Idiot by Alfred Schnittke premiered.

He taught at the Russian Academy of Theater Arts, where he received a professorship in 1954 .

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Andrew Lebed, Heinrich E. Schultz, Stephen S. Taylor (Eds.): Who is who in the USSR 1965-66. A Biographical Directory containing about 5000 biographies of prominent personalities in the Soviet Union . 2nd edition, Scarecrow Press, New York et al. a. 1966.
  • Borys Lewytzkyj : Who's Who in the Soviet Union. A biographical encyclopedia of 5,000 leading personalities in the Soviet Union . Saur, Munich a. a. 1984.
  • Marina Lobanova:  Pokrovskij, Boris Aleksandrovič. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • VS Meretisalov: Biographic Directory of the USSR. A biographical encyclopedia of 5,000 leading personalities in the Soviet Union . Scarecrow Press, New York 1958.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lenin Order for Bolshoi. Greetings from Leonid Breshnew . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 27, 1976, vol. 32, issue 126, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Honored with Lenin Prizes in Moscow. Appreciation for outstanding achievements in art, literature, science and technology . In: Neues Deutschland , April 23, 1980, vol. 35, issue 96, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Boris Pokrowski staged at the Leipzig Opera . In: Neue Zeit , January 20, 1982, vol. 38, issue 16, p. 4.
personal data
SURNAME Pokrovsky, Boris Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pokrovskij, Boris Aleksandrovič; Бори́с Алекса́ндрович Покро́вский (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet-Russian opera director and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 5, 2009
Place of death Moscow