Background
ARBATOV, Il’ya was born on March 18, 1894.
Armenian ballet-dancer and balletmaster
ARBATOV, Il’ya was born on March 18, 1894.
1921 graduate Perini’s Ballet Studio, Tbilisi.
1926-1938 soloist and ballet-master in Tbilisi, Tashkent, Kharkov, Kazan', Ufa and Baku opera and ballet theaters, where he performed the roles: Girey in Bakhchisarayskiy fontan (The Fountain of Bakhchisaray). Li Fan-fu in Krasnyy mak (The Red Poppy). Peter I in Mednyy vsadnik (The Bronze Horseman).
Gabo tin Schast’ye (Fortune). Mato in ’’Sevan”; the Father in ’’Marmar,” et cetera Here, too, he staged the ballets: Lebedinoye ozero (Swan Lake).
"Coppelia”; "The Red Poppy”. Arends’ ’’Salambo”; "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray”. ’’Shcherezade”; Arenskiy’s "Gulyandom” (1940), et cetera
1938-1957 (with intervals) chief ballet-master, Spendiarov Opera and Ballet Theater, where he staged national ballets such as: Khachaturyan’s "Fortune” (1939). Spendiarov’s "Khandul” (1945). Yegiazaryan’s "Sevan” (1956).
Oganesyan’s "Marmar” (1957). Also staged ballets by Russian composers, such as Morozov’s "Doctor Aybolit” (1949). ’’The Bronze Horseman” (1949).
Arranged national dances in operas: Spendiarov’s ’’Almast”. Tigranyan’s ’’Anush,” et cetera Directed national dances in choreographic ensembles of Geo, Arm, Azer, North Ossetia, et cetera