Background
Alexey was born in Saint St. Petersburg and received the same education as all the Russian aristocracy and did not even know the Georgian language. He grew up a man of Russian culture.
Alexey was born in Saint St. Petersburg and received the same education as all the Russian aristocracy and did not even know the Georgian language. He grew up a man of Russian culture.
Father: Akaki Tsereteli (1840–1915) was a Georgian prince, a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure. Mother: Russian Natalia Petrovna Bazilevskaya (ru: Наталия Петровна Базилевская). In 1896/1897, Alexey Tsereteli opened an opera enterprise in Kharkov.
Theater critic once noted the successful staging of the new company.
Very soon, he continued to work in Saint St. Petersburg and creates a New Opera (ru: «Новая опера») and, despite competition from the Mariinsky Theatre, his productions are popular. Worked there not only well-known Russian singers, but the famous European singers came.
In 1905, Titta Ruffo came to participate in several performances. In 1907/08 A. Tsereteli organized tours of Feodor Chaliapin in America.
In 1917, A. Tsereteli left Russia.
In 1921 he began to create an opera-ballet troupe in Barcelona, then - in Paris. In his company worked many famous Russian singer-emigrants. In 1926 he organized a performance of The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya at the Opéra national de Paris.
The new theater company called the Russian Opera in Paris.
Worked there conductors, directors, painters, singers and ballet artists: Emil Cooper, Nikolai Evreinov, Alexander Sanin, Konstantin Korovin, Ivan Bilibin, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. Michel Fokine, Bronislava Nijinska, opera singers: Feodor Chaliapin, Dmitriy Smirnov, Yelena Sadoven, Marya Davydova, Marianna Cherkasskaya, Natalia Ermolenko-Yuzhina, George Pozemkovskiy, Yakov Gorsky, Kapiton Zaporojets (Capiton Doctorate Zaporozhetz, ru: Капитон Запорожец), Nina Koshetz et cetera
Alexey Tsereteli invited Colonel West. de Basil’s ballet troupe. The success was enormous.
The troupe was invited to different countries.
In one of the productions of the opera Prince Igor in London in 1933 Feodor Chaliapin played two roles at once: Galitsky and Konchak (Russian sources call another date of this representation: June 5, 1931, Lyceum Theatre, London). But everything has its education The owners of company quarreled and filed their claims in court.
Private Company disbanded.
A. Tsereteli before his death, bequeathed all the props of his troupe to the "theater of the future of a free Georgia". But will not be recognized as valid and the property went to auction.
Prince Alexei Akakiyevich Tsereteli died in 1942 in German-occupied Paris.