Sats, Natalia Ilyinichna

Natalia Sats was born in a family of musicians.

In 1904, the family moved from Irkutsk to Moscow. My father worked closely with the Art Theater , in 1906 he became the head of the musical part. Friends of the house were K. S. Stanislavsky , E. B. Vakhtangov , V. I. Kachalov and other artists of the Moscow Art Theater, as well as S. V. Rachmaninov .

She studied at a private gymnasium E. A. Repman . She played in the Drama Studio named after A. S. Griboedov. She received a musical education - in 1917 she graduated from the A. N. Scriabin College of Music. Later, in 1953, she graduated from the theater department of GITIS .

Since 1918, from the age of fifteen, she was in charge of the children's sector of the Moscow City Council Teamuzsektsii. On her initiative, the first theater with a repertoire for children was created - the Children's Theater of the Moscow City Council (1918). From 1921 until her arrest in 1937 she was director and artistic director of the Moscow Theater for Children (from 1936 - the Central Children's Theater, from 1992 - the Russian Academic Youth Theater ).

In an effort to expand the scope of artistic education of the young audience, she introduced symphonic concerts and musical performances for children into the repertoire (the children's opera The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish by L. A. Polovinkina (1935), the symphonic tale Petya and the Wolf by S. Prokofiev (1936) )

In the 1930s, they were invited to stage performances abroad. Her productions of the operas Falstaff by J. Verdi in the Berlin Theater Kroll Opera (1931, conductor O. Klemperer ), The Ring of the Nibelung by R. Wagner and The Wedding of Figaro by V. A. Mozart at the Colonna Theater ( 1931, Buenos Aires , Argentina ).

In the fall of 1937 she was arrested as a “ member of the traitor’s family ”: her husband, Israel Yakovlevich Veitser , People’s Commissar of Internal Trade of the USSR, was arrested on November 3 on charges of counter-revolutionary activity ^[1] . In the camps, the Gulag spent five years (Volgolag, Rybinsk), was released at the end of 1942. However, she did not have permission to stay in Moscow, so she went to Alma-Ata , where at that time many leading artists of that time were evacuated. In the capital of the Kazakh SSR, she again took up her favorite work, and her efforts in 1945 opened the first in Kazakhstan Alma-Ata Theater for Young Spectators (now the State Academic Russian Theater for Children and Youth named after N. Sats ), which she led for 13 years .

In 1958, she returned to Moscow, led the All-Russian Touring Theater, and then - the children's department of Mosestrada. In 1964, she organized and led the world's first Moscow Children's Musical Theater (now the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater named after N. I. Sats ).

The initiator and, together with S. S. Prokofiev , the creator of the musical tale for the symphony orchestra “ Peter and the Wolf ”.

Has toured abroad (Germany, Canada, USA).

Since 1981 she taught at GITIS , since 1984 - professor. She defended her thesis for the degree of candidate of art history .

The author of plays , the libretto of children's operas and ballets, books and articles on musical education.

Member of the Union of Writers of the USSR (1962).

Natalia Sats died on December 18, 1993 in Moscow. She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery (plot number 2).

Family

• Father - Ilya Alexandrovich Sats (1875-1912), composer, conductor, cellist.
• Mother - Anna Mikhailovna Schastnaya (? —1941), opera singer.
• Aunt - Natalya Alexandrovna Rosenel (1902-1962), actress.
• Uncle - Alexei Mikhailovich Schastny (1881-1918), Russian naval leader. 1st rank captain.
• Sister - Nina Ilyinichna Sats (1904-1924), poet.
• The first husband is Sergey Grigorievich Rozanov (1894-1957), a children's writer.
  • Son - Adrian Sergeyevich Rozanov (1923-1996), journalist, poet.
• The second husband is Nikolai Vasilievich Popov (1889-1938), USSR Trade Representative in Germany , Chairman of the USSR Trade Bank .
  • Daughter - Roksana Nikolaevna Sats (nee Ksenia Nikolaevna Popova, born 1927), teacher, librettist, since 1969 - head of the literary and pedagogical part of the theater named after N. I. Sats. Her husband is an actor of the Central Children's Theater Yuri Mikhailovich Karpov (1927-1989)
    • Grandson - Mikhail Yuryevich Karpov (born 1954), pianist.
• The third husband is Israel, Yakovlevich Weitzer (1889-1938), People's Commissar of Internal Trade of the USSR.
• The fourth husband is Dmitry Vodopyanov, violinist.
  • Son - Ilya Dmitrievich Sats (born 1946), circus artist.

• Hero of Socialist Labor (1983)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1933) ^[2]
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1967) ^[3]
• People's Artist of the USSR (1975)
• USSR State Prize (1972) - for staging musical performances “Three Fat Men” (after Yu. K. Olesha , composer V. I. Rubin ), “Giant Boy” (music by T. N. Khrennikov ), “Sisters” (music D. B. Kabalevsky ) - for works for children
• Lenin Prize (1982) - for staging performances and concert programs of recent years at the Moscow State Academic Theater of Theater and Music . (Prize for works of literature and art for children)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize (1985) - for outstanding achievements in the aesthetic education of children and youth
• Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1979)
• Order of Lenin (1983)
• Order of the October Revolution (1989)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1973)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1978)
• Medals
• Candidate of Art History (1962).

Moscow Theater for Children

• 1921 - “The Pearl of Adalmina” by I. Novikov based on the tale of Z. Topelius (shared with N. Volkonsky )
• 1925 - "Japanese Tales" by S. Shervinsky
• 1927 - "Mr. Buble and the Worm" S. Zayaitsky
• 1927 - "The Negro and the Monkey" (pantomime) N. Sats and S. Rozanova
• 1928 - "Altai Robinsons" N. Shestakova
• 1928 - “Fritz Bauer” by V. Selikhova and N. Sats (shared by B. Reich )
• 1928 - "Children's Variety" by A. Barto and N. Agnivtseva
• 1929 - "About Dziuba" N. Sats
• 1929 - “The Gidge Aul” by N. Shestakov
• 1930 - The Baby Front by A. Barto, G. Vladychina , V. Lyubimova , N. Pavlovich (jointly with E. May, T. Tomis, K. Svarozhich)
• 1930 - How Kolka Ppnkin traveled to Brazil by D. Harms
• 1931 - “Buzonada” by L. Bochin
• 1931 - “I am not enough, we are strength” (dance performance) (with E. May)
• 1932 - “Cracking” by N. Shestakov
• 1933 - “Brother” by N. Shestakov
• 1934 - “Mick” by N. Shestakova
• 1935 - "Emil and His Companions" by E. Kestner
• 1935 - “Seryozha Streltsov” by V. Lyubimova (jointly with V. D. Korolev)
• 1936 - The Golden Key by A. N. Tolstoy (jointly with V. Korolev) ^[4]

Alma-Ata Young Spectator Theater

• 1945 - The Little Red Riding Hood by E. Schwartz
• 1947 - " Twelfth Night " by W. Shakespeare
• 1948 - “ Two Captains ” by V. Kaverin
• 1948 - "The Young Guard " by A. Fadeev
• 1949 - “ Two Veronts ” by W. Shakespeare

Moscow Children's Musical Theater

• 1967 - “ Three Fat Men ” based on the tale of Yu. K. Olesha
• 1970 - “The Giant Boy” ^[5] based on the play “Mick” by N. Shestakov
• 1981 - Master Rocle
• 1986 - “The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids ” based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm
• 1989 - “The Magic Flute ” (opera- singspiel ) by Mozart
• 1991 - King Lear by W. Shakespeare
• 1993 - Golden Island (Opera) by M. Bronner

Saratov Opera and Ballet Theater

• 1954 - The Tale of Tsar Saltan by N. Rimsky-Korsakov
• 1977 - “ Peter and the Wolf ” (symphonic tale) by S. Prokofiev

Kazakh Opera and Ballet Theater

• 1944 - " Cio-Cio-San " by J. Puccini

• 1976 - Petya and the Wolf (film production) - presenter
• 1983 - The Blue Bird (film-production) - opening remarks (director)

Filmmaking

• 1982 - History of the wooden man (documentary)
• 1991 - Sergey Prokofiev. Suite of Life (Documentary)

• "Theater for children" (1925, jointly with S. Rozanov )
• Our Way (1932)
• “Children come to the theater” (1961) - about the birth of the theater for children, about the theater as a reasonable entertainment and a means of ethical and aesthetic education
• “Always with you” (1965) - about the role of music in the children's theater, about meetings with artists
• "Ilya Sats" (1968).
• “Short stories of my life” (1984-1985)
• “Life is a Striped Phenomenon” (1991, ed. “News”), autobiography

She wrote a number of plays and dramatizations: “Fritz Bauer” (post. 1928, jointly with V. Selikhova), “Negro and Monkey” (post. 1927, together with S. Rozanov), “About Dziuba” (“Scruffy-Turn” , post. 1934) and others.

• “Mother of the Children's Theaters of the World” is the title unanimously awarded to N. I. Sats at the first meeting of the International Center of the International Association of Theaters for Children and Youth (ASSITEZH).
• After the death of N.I. Sats, her name was given to her by the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater and the State Academic Russian Theater for Children and Youth in Alma-Ata .
• In 2003, a monument to N. I. Sats was erected in front of the Moscow State Academic Children's Musical Theater in Moscow. On the monument, the figure she is depicted with two children in the images of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf ^[6] .
• In honor of her, the Moscow school No. 626 was named; this school houses the museum “For the Blue Bird ...” dedicated to it
• The N. I. Sats Moscow Musical Theater has a memorial cabinet of N. I. Sats, and an exposition dedicated to her life and work has been deployed in the foyer of the theater.

• Viktorov V. Natalia Sats and children's musical theater. - SPb. : Composer, 1993 .-- 240 p.
• Sats N.I. Children come to the theater. - M. , 1961.
• Sats N.I. Short stories of my life T.1 . - M .: Art, 1984.
• Sats N.I. Short stories of my life T.2 . - M .: Art, 1985.
• Sats N.I. Life is a striped phenomenon . - M. , 1991.

Natalia Ilyinichna Sats (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".

• Victor Rozov. I wrote as I wanted and what I wanted
• Natalia Sats
• Natalia Ilyinichna Sats at www.peoples.ru
• SATS, NATALIA ILLINICH
• Theater Encyclopedia (page 383)
• Theater Encyclopedia (page 299)