The production presented only the first part of the composer’s work – eight scenes of “peace”. Two of them – “The Military Council at Fili” and “The Ball at the Nobleman of Queen Catherine” – were written by Prokofiev at the request of the production’s conductor, 62-year-old Samuil Samosud. The director of “War and Peace” was 34-year-old Boris Pokrovsky, the part of Natasha was performed by young singer Tatyana Lavrova. But the opera was staged in its entirety only in 1955.
It was Oleg Efremov’s debut as a director, at that time, he worked as an actor for the theatre, later he became the head of Moscow Sovremennik Theatre first, and then Moscow Art Theatre...
Her parents who were village teachers lived in the village of Krivaya Balka near Odessa. They also were preparing their daughter for this occupation. But she dreamed of music...
All her life she worked for youth theatres: first for State Youth Theatre, then for Central Children's Theatre. In her youth, she played parts of boys...
Her father was a deputy director of a large factory in Moscow. The family loved theatre and ballroom dancing, and the daughter attended piano classes at music school...
Maxim Gorky finished his play in early 1902. It first was staged at Art Theatre, and only then, in 1903, was released in print. The production was staged by Konstantin Stanislavsky...
The future dancer was born in the capital of Latvia. His father was a singer in his youth and then, when he lost his voice, he began working as a stage master at the Opera and Ballet Theatre in Riga...
She was born in Barvikha but grew up in Moscow, where, starting in 1912, her father began renting a concession stand at the Nikitin Brothers Circus that used to occupy the location of the current Satire Theatre...
The future actress was born in Kiev, in the family of a military infectious disease doctor. Parents dreamed that their daughter would also be a doctor.
The actor was born in a dramatic time for his family - his father, Deputy People's Commissar for Communications of the USSR was arrested few months prior to the birth of his son.
