Background
Pokrovsky was born in Moscow, Russian Empire in 1912.
Pokrovsky was born in Moscow, Russian Empire in 1912.
Russian University of Theatre Arts.
His first production was a staging of Georges Bizet"s Carmen in Nizniy Novgorod. He took this opera to Italy for its first full staging there, in 1964. In 1965 in Moscow he directed the first Russian-language production of Benjamin Britten"s A Midsummer Night"s Dream.
In 1972 Pokrovsky founded the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and he produced operas such as Igor Stravinsky"s The Rake"s Progress, Alfred Schnittke"s Life with an Idiot, and in 1974 the first Soviet production of Dmitri Shostakovich"s The Nose since 1929.
In 1975 he took the Bolshoi Theatre on its first American tour. Boris Pokrovsky died in Moscow in 2009.
Pokrovsky"s many awards include four Stalin Prizes (1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), a Lenin Prize (1980), two Orders of Lenin (1967, 1976), Order Foreign Merit to the Fatherland of 3rd (1997), 2nd (2002) and 1st (2007) degree, as well as two State Prizes (1995, 2004).