Education
1912 graduate Drama Department, St. Petersburg Theatrical College. 1912-1914 studied singing at St. Petersburg Conservatory.
1912 graduate Drama Department, St. Petersburg Theatrical College. 1912-1914 studied singing at St. Petersburg Conservatory.
1912-1919 stage director. Musical Drama Theater. 1914-1926 lecturer, 1926-1929 professor, Leningrad Conservatory.
1923 helped found Opera Studio at Leningrad Conservatory. From 1929 worked in Moscow and Sverdlovsk. 1935-1938 stage director, 1938-1941 chief stage director, Khar’kov Opera and Ballet Theater.
1939-1941 founder-director, Opera Studio, Khar’kov Conservatory. 1943-1949 again professor, Opera Studio, Leningrad Conservatory. Productions: co-produced Auber’s “Fenella” (1918).
Co-produced Rimsky-Kor- sakov’s Kashchey besmertnyy (Kashchey the Immortal) (1919). Pikovaja dama (The Queen of Spades) (1937). Knyaz’ Igor (Prince Igor) (1939).
“La Traviata” (1937). Chishko’s Bronenosets Potyomkin (The Battleship Potyomkin) (1938). Khrennikov’s V buryu (In the Storm) (1939).
Yevgeniy Onegin (Eugene Onegin) (1934). Tsarskaya nevesta (The Bride of the Tsar) (1936), etc.