Boris Ignatievich Afanasyev ( January 13, 1920 , the city of Mstislavl of the Mogilyov region of the BSSR - 1992 ) was a Soviet conductor . People's Artist of the RSFSR ( 1971 ).
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Biography
He studied at the Minsk musical technical school. Graduated from the Belarusian State Conservatory as a violinist soloist ( 1947 ). He started his creative career as a concertmaster of the orchestra of the Belarusian Drama Theater, in which, with a short break, he worked from 1934 to 1943. After being evacuated in the city of Tomsk , he organized an orchestra , a string quartet , and traveled to the front with a concert brigade. In the autumn of 1943, he organized the Belarusian State Quartet, which he performed in the liberated cities of Belarus. In 1944 , he participated in the organization of the Symphony Orchestra of the BSSR by 1950 , he was his accompanist (at the same time with the leadership of the quartet). In 1950-1953 artistic director of the Belarusian State Philharmonic . In 1953-1960 he was the conductor of the symphonic orchestra of the philharmonic. He taught at the Belarusian Conservatory.
Since 1960 - conductor of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater, in 1962 - 1976 .. - Chief Conductor. He conducted symphony concerts of the Perm Philharmonic. He moved to Ukraine and headed the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater . The stage version of the opera-ballet “Viy” by V. S. Gubarenko , a significant contribution to the creation of which in this theater was made by Boris Afanasyev, was nominated for the USSR State Prize . After that, he was the principal conductor of the Dnepropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theater .
Stages
- "Fire years"
- "Viy"
- "Revived May"
- "Tenderness"
- "Maid of Orleans"
- "Oprichnik"
- "The Enchantress" Tchaikovsky
- "Lohengrin" Wagner
- "Masked Ball" Verdi
- "Turandot" Puccini
- "Semyon Kotko" Prokofiev
- "Masquerade" D. Tolstoy
- "Yukki" ("Lantern Festival") Spadavekkia.
Sources
- [1] Universial dictionary-encyclopedia (in Ukrainian)
- Science Bulletin of the National Museum of Music of Ukraine іm. P.I. Tchaikovsky. Vipusk 32, Book 4. Up to 90 of the National Museum of Music of Ukraine. P.I. Tchaikovsky. “Vitaly Gubarenko: Storinki creativity. Stats, dosdіdzhennya, dispute. ”Kiev, 2003 (ukr.), (Russian) (inaccessible link)
- Perm region. (unavailable link) Encyclopedia (Russian) (unavailable link)