Background
Arseniy Ridal was born on December 29, 1893 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation into a family of banker.
Actor composer director teacher
Arseniy Ridal was born on December 29, 1893 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation into a family of banker.
Arseniy Grigorievich graduated of Irkutsk gymnasium. He was admitted to the medical faculty of Tomsk University. In 1913 he graduated from the Conservatory in Brussels. In 1910-1912 he studied directing at Max Reinhardt Summer School (Germany).
Arseniy Grigorievich started as an actor in the Curved Mirror Theater (Saint Petersburg). He served in the Red Army (sanitary unit at the Don Revolutionary Committee). In the city of Boguchar created and headed the amateur theater (1918-1919). Later Arseniy Grigorievich directed theaters in Baku, Kuibyshev, Yerevan, Tbilisi. He worked in Moscow (1931-1933). He graduated from the creative path in the Grozny Theater (1952-1962).
Then, Arseniy Grigorievich lived in Voronezh from 1919 to 1924. He taught in the theater studio, staged performances in the studio and city theaters. He created the Theater of Free Masters (1923-1924), in which performances reflected the innovative searches of the era. Theater repertoire: "Faust and the city" Anatoly Lunacharsky, "Princess Turandot" Carlo Gozzi, "The Golden Cockerel" Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, "The Devil" Ferenc Molnara, "At the Bottom" Maxim Gorky, "Hamlet" William Shakespeare. He often played in his performances, wrote music to them. In Voronezh, he composed the comic opera "The Last Adventure of Don Juan" (1923).