Education
Kirill Tikhonov have graduated from Moscow Conservatory in 1947 and by 1952 was graduated from symphonic conducting department of the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory as well.
Kirill Tikhonov have graduated from Moscow Conservatory in 1947 and by 1952 was graduated from symphonic conducting department of the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory as well.
His first public appearance took place at the Moscow Theater of Drama in 1945 and later on he appeared at the Saint St. Petersburg Comedy Theatre and both Permanent and Sverdlovsk Theatre of Opera and Ballet. In 1977 he became a lecturer at the Moscow State University of Culture and became a professor there later on. During his life he have toured throughout Russia and overseas conducting such operas as Mikhail Glinka"s A Life for the Tsar, Alexander Borodin"s Prince Igor, Modest Mussorgsky"s Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, and both The Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, among others
Besides operas he also conducted ballet music as well, including Sergei Prokofiev"s Cinderella, Peer Gynt and Rodion Shchedrin"s The Humpbacked Horse.
Foreign Helikon Opera alone he have conducted over 23 operas including Giovanni Battista Pergolesi"s Louisiana serva padrona, The Tsar"s Bride of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Georges Bizet"s Carmen, Prokofiev"s Rotschield’s Violin and both Louisiana traviata and Aida of Giuseppe Verdi. Many future conductors such as Lev Lyakh, Wolf Gorelik, Eugene Kolobov, Valery Kritskov, Evgeny Brazhnik, Alexander Voloshchuk and Victoria Unguryanu among others did some practical work under his guidance.
