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Leonid Vasil’yevich BARATOV Edit Profile

conductor theatrical producer

Leonid BARATOV, USSR Stage director and actor. professor State Stagecraft Institute from 1947; Honorary Art Worker of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic; People’s Art Worker of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1958; chief stage director, Moscow’s Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater from 1950. two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor; medals; five Stalin Prizes (1943, 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952).

Background

Baratov, Leonid was born on April 1, 1895 in Moscow.

Education

From 1914 studied at Law Faculty, Moscow University:.

Career

1918-1922 actor, 2nd Studio, Moscow Arts Theater. 1922-1923 actor, Music Studio, Moscow Arts Theater. 1923-1931 actor and stage director, Music Studio (later Nemirovich- Danchenko Music Theater).

1931-1938 stage director, Bol’shoy Theater. 1936-1938 producer, Lunarcharskiy Opera and Ballet Theater, Sverdlovsk. 1938-1943 chief producer, Leningrad's Kirov Opera and Ballet Theater.

1943-1950 chief producer. USSR Bolshoy Theater. Instructor, school of Moscow Arts Theater, Institute of Cenemato- graphy, and Opera Department, State Stagecraft Institute: Productions: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (1923).

Rimsky-Korsakov’sPskovityanka (The Woman from Pskov). Tchaikovsky’s Yevgeniy Onegin (Eugene Onegin) and Mazepa (Mazeppa) (1931-1938). Glinka’s "Ivan Susanin”.

Khrennikov’s V buryu (Into the Storm). Tchaikovsky’s Charodeyka (The Sorceress). Koval’s Yemelyan Pugachyov (Emelian Pugachev) (1938-1943).

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov (1949-1950) and Khovanshchina (1951). Kabalevskiy’s Sem'ya Tarasa (Taras’ Family) (1952). Prokofiev’s Voyna i mir (War und Peace) (1958), etc.