Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevoloschsky

Ivan Vsevoloschski (no year)

Ivan Vsevolozhsky ( Russian Иван Александрович Всеволожской even Ivan Vsevolozhsky , Ivan Vsevolozhsky ; * 2. April  1835 , † 10. November 1909 ) was a Russian theater director, librettist, costume and stage in the Mariinsky Theater , and later director of the Hermitage .

Life

Vsevoloschsky belonged to the aristocratic society in Saint Petersburg . He was married to Ekaterina Dmitrijewna Volkonsky, a granddaughter of Field Marshal Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky . Vsevoloschsky was a civil servant and diplomat in the Russian Empire and in 1881 became director of the state theater in St. Petersburg. In 1886 he moved the Imperial Opera and Ballet from the dilapidated building of the Bolshoi Theater to the House of the Mariinsky Theater . Under his leadership, the post of ballet composer , which until then had been held by musicians like Léon Minkus and Cesare Pugni , who largely determined ballet production, was abolished. The ballet impresario Marius Petipa was given greater freedom, and Vsevoloschski was able to commission outside composers. So Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , whom he had also entrusted with the composition of the operas Die Zauberin (1887) and Queen of Spades , which premiered in 1890 under the baton of Eduard Nápravník on Mariinsky.

Wsewoloschski himself designed the sets and costumes for a number of the ballets. In 1889 he wrote the libretto for the composition commission for the ballet Sleeping Beauty , which premiered in 1890. In 1892 Vsevoloschski commissioned Petipa and Lev Ivanov to choreograph the ballet The Nutcracker , which premiered on December 18, 1892 together with the opera Jolanthe , also by Tchaikovsky. In 1894 and 1895, Vsevoloschski provided a decisive new choreography of Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake by Petipa and Iwanow with the dancers Pierina Legnani and Paul Gerdt . In 1898 he was involved in setting up the world premiere of the Raymonda ballet to the music of Alexander Glasunov .

Under his direction, the ballet remained in its expressions of the courtly culture of absolutism and deliberately isolated itself from social developments, while in Russian society the political and cultural conflicts were conducted under terms such as nationalism , realism and symbolism .

In 1899 Vsevoloschski finished his theatrical work and took over the management of the Hermitage Museum , which he held until his death. His successor as museum director was Dmitri Ivanovich Tolstoy in 1909 .

• Selection of images from Vsevoloschsky's stage work
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  Costumes in Sleeping Beauty (1890)

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  Costumes in Sleeping Beauty (1890)

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  Costume Design for Nutcracker (1892)

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  Set design in the Nutcracker (1892)

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  Set design in the Nutcracker (1892)

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  Costume Design for Nutcracker (1892)

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  Pierina Legnani in Swan Lake (1895)

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  Stage design in Raymonda (1898)

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  Pierina Legnani in Raymonda (1898)

literature

• Horst Koegler: Frederick ballet lexicon from A - Z . Friedrich, Velber 1972
• Marion Kant: The Cambridge Companion to Ballet . Cambridge University Press 2007
• Debra Craine, Judith Mackrell: The Oxford dictionary of dance . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2010, p. 330

Web links

Commons : Iwan Alexandrowitsch Vsewoloschski  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Iwan Alexandrowitsch Wsewoloschski in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Ivan Vsevoloszhky in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eberhard Rebling: Ballet A - Z , Henschel, Berlin 1980, p. 74; P. 274
2. ↑ Eberhard Rebling : Ballet A - Z , Henschel, Berlin 1980, p. 74
3. ↑ Eberhard Rebling: Ballet A - Z , Henschel, Berlin 1980, pp. 368-369
4. ↑ Lynn Garafola: Russian Ballet in the Age of Petipa , in: The Cambridge Companion to Ballet , 2007, p. 156