Английская Википедия:Dmytro Smolych

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox person Dmytro Mykolayovych Smolych (Шаблон:Lang-uk; Шаблон:Lang-ru) (11 April 1919Шаблон:Snd28 April 1987) was a Soviet and Ukrainian theatre director.

Early years

Smolych was born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.[1] He was the son of the theatre directorШаблон:Citation required Mykola Smolych. In 1941, he graduated from the K. Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio in Moscow.[1]

Career and notable productions

From 1941Шаблон:Ndash1955, he directed the National Opera of Ukraine (becoming its chief director in 1970). He directed the Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theatre from 1955Шаблон:Ndash1958, when he became the chief director of the Odesa Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1962 he became art director of the Minsk Theatre, a post he held for seven years. In 1969 he became chief director at the Lviv Theatre of Opera and Ballet, holding the post for a year.[1] From 1970 he was the chief director of the Ukrainian Opera and Ballet Theatre.[2]

Smolych's notable productions of operas include Taras Bulba by M. Lysenko, Yaroslav the Wise by H. Maiboroda, Macbeth by J. Verdi, Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by O. Borodin, The Queen of Spades by P. Tchaikovsky, In the Storm by T. Hryennikov, Absalom and Eteri by Paliashvili, and Huguenots by J. Meyerber,[1] as well as Carmen by Georges Bizet (1947), Halka by Stanisław Moniuszko (1949), Bohdan Khmelnytskyi (1954) and Nazar Stodoly (1961) by Kostiantyn Dankevych, The Young Guard by Yuliy Meitus (1955), Шаблон:Ill by Шаблон:Ill (1962),Шаблон:Citation required and Don Carlos by Verdi (1970).[3]

Later life

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Grave of Dmytro and Mykola Smolych, Baikove Cemetery

Smolych spent much of his later life in Kyiv, and there is a bronze memorial plaque dedicated to him at 39 Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Street, where he lived and worked from 1971 to 1987. He died in Kyiv on April 28, 1987. He is buried next to his father in Baikove Cemetery.

Honours

He was an Honoured Artist of the Georgian SSR (1957), Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1958). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1960), Шаблон:Ill (1964), Laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR (1970), and People's Artist of the USSR (1979).[1]

References

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Further reading