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.
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.
He was born on a train traveling through Irkutsk to Vladivostok. Such a beginning of life, as it were, predicted the importance of a long way in Nuriyev’s destiny.
The premiere of “Pieretta’s Wedding Veil” at the Free Theatre. In 1913, Alice Koonen left the Art Theatre for the Free Theatre, founded by Konstantin Mardzhanov...
Her parents were actors Alexander and Seraphima Yablochkina. At the age of six, the girl played on the stage for the first time in a play staged by her father's friend.
Khmelyov suffered paralysis, and then cardiac arrest in Moscow Art Theatre, during the dress rehearsal of the play “Hard Days” where he played Ivan the Terrible.
This was the last play staged by Georgy Tovstonogov at the Bolshoi Drama Theatre with Alisa Freindlich, Oleg Basilashvili, Evgeny Lebedev, Kirill Lavrov, Vladislav Strzhelchik...
He was born in Moscow, grew up in a communal apartment in the Arbat. Together with his cousin, the boy constantly played theatre, was cutting out paper dolls and decorations.
