Vladimir Leonardovich Nardov (real surname is Knipper ) ( 10 [22] June 1876 , Moscow - November 12, 1942 , Moscow ) - opera singer ( tenor ) and theater director of the opera theater, Honored Artist of the RSFSR ( 1933 ). He was Sergey Lemeshev’s vocal teacher.
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Family
- The father is a process engineer.
- His mother is a professor at the Moscow Philharmonic School Zalts, Anna Ivanovna .
- The elder sister is Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhov , a dramatic actress, and A. P. Chekhov’s wife.
- Brother - Knipper, Konstantin Leonardovich (1866-1924), a railway engineer.
- Nephews: actress Olga Knipper-Doling , teacher of the Russian language Ada Knipper, composer Lev Knipper
Creative Biography
In 1895-1902 he studied at the mathematics and law faculties of Moscow University ; at the same time engaged in vocal with his mother. From 1893 he took violin lessons from N. Sokolovsky , a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, and participated in the children's orchestra of A. Erarsky . From 1895 he played in the student orchestra under the direction of M. Ippolitov-Ivanov , while at the same time working after graduating from the university for two years as assistant attorney in Moscow. Then he improved as a singer in Berlin with A. Kairati and Dresden with R. Muller ; in 1907–1914 he performed on the stages of various cities in Germany. With the beginning of the First World War, returning to Russia, in 1914 he made his debut at the Zimin Opera House. Then two months - in the theater of operetta I. Zone; from November 1917 he returned to the Zimin Theater , which became the Theater of the Moscow Council of Workers' Deputies; from October 1918 he performed in the theater studio Hudozh.-skylight. Union of Workers' Organizations (KhPSROZ). In 1920-36 he worked at the Bolshoi Theater .
The operatic repertoire included 137 parts: Devil, 1st performer (“Son of Earth”), Kupfer (“Klara Milich”), Dimba (“Wedding”), Drunk (“Decembrists” by V. Zolotarev ), Senior Count Kamensky (“Tupeyny painter"); Dorofey (“The Captain's Daughter”), Lodyre (“ Vampuka ”); Almaviva ( The Barber of Seville ), José ( Carmen ); Ottavio ( “Don Juan” ), Walter ( “Tannhäuser” ), Singer (“Cavalier of the Roses” by R. Strauss ); Triquet ( “Eugene Onegin” ), Chekalinsky, Bobyl, Bomeliy ( “Tsar's Bride” ), Stemid and Toropka ( “Askold's Grave” ), Shuisky, Vladimir Igorevich ( “Prince Igor” ), Beppo (“Fra-Devillo, or Hotel in Terracina "), Faust ( " Faust " ), Rudolph ( " Boheme " ), Manrico ( " The Troubadour " ), Alfred ( " La Traviata " ) and others.
In addition, he sang in the operetta: Paris ( “The Beautiful Helen” by J. Offenbach ), Grenisch “The Corneville Bells ” by R. Planket ).
The chamber repertoire included romances and other works by M. Glinka , L. Beethoven , I. Brams , R. Schumann , G. Berlioz .
From 1918 he was an opera director. Put: "Fra-Devil, or Hotel in Terracina" Ober (1923, New Theater, Moscow), "Mozart and Salieri" by Rimsky-Korsakov (1926, Experimental Theater, Moscow). In total for all the time they were delivered 30 operas. In 1923–36, being a director of the Bolshoi Theater, he staged ten operas there: “Mozart and Salieri” and “The Clowns” (1923), “The Pearl Seekers” (1924), “The Valkyrie” (1925), | “Ivan the Soldier” ( 1927, 1st production), “Ole from Nordland” (1928, 1st production on the Soviet stage), “Toupee Artist” (1929, 1st production), “Sadko” (1930), “The Tsar's Bride” ( 1931), La Traviata (1933), “The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia ” by Rimsky-Korsakov (1935).
Engaged in teaching activities. In 1919, the opera class was opened in the Gnesins School under the direction of V. Nardov, who became the first head of the opera class, where not only individual opera fragments were staged, but the whole opera as well. His first production here was - “The Marriage of Figaro” by W. A. Mozart [1] . In 1923–28 he was the head of the opera class at the Moscow Conservatory . Since 1940 - Professor of the Moscow Conservatory (in 1940–41, Head of the Department of Dramatic Art). Among the students: S. Lemeshev , N. Khanaev , V. Slivinsky , S. Krasovsky .
Member of the CPSU (b) since 1941.
Portrait of a singer by an unknown artist, 1934, oil (stored in the SCMMC , f. 16, No. 2131).
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Links
- Theater Encyclopedia
- Vocal Encyclopedic Dictionary (inaccessible link) (inaccessible link from 14-06-2016 [1147 days])
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