Onisim Mikhailovich Bron (born 1 September 1895, Novomoskovsk - died 2 February 1975, Moscow) was a Russian and Ukrainian Soviet conductor and teacher.
He was born on 20 August [1 September] 1895 in the city of Novomoskovsk (now Dnipro region, Ukraine). He studied at the Kyiv Conservatoire (in 1916 he graduated from the piano class of Vladimir Pukhalsky; in 1918 - from the composition class of Reinhold Glière).
In 1918-1922, he worked as a concertmaster and conductor at the Kyiv Opera House, and in 1925-1926 - at the Kharkiv Opera House. From 1930 to 1932, he worked as a conductor at the Kyiv Opera House, and at the same time taught conducting at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute.
From 1937 to 1944, he conducted at the Kirov Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre. From 1944 to 1948, he worked in Minsk as artistic director and chief conductor of the Belarusian Opera and Ballet Theatre and taught at the Belarusian Conservatory.
In Moscow, from 1948 to 1952, he headed the All-Union Radio Opera Ensemble, and from 1952 to 1956, the Soviet Opera Ensemble of the All-Union Theatre Society. He taught at the State Institute of Theatre Arts. He died in Moscow on 2 February 1975.
Works.
Opera repertoire:
"The Rift by Vladimir Femelidi;
"The Apple Tree Captivity by Oles Chyshko;
"Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky;
"The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
"The North Wind by Lev Knipper;
"Natalka Poltavka by Mykola Lysenko (1954, premiere, with Ivan Kozlovsky and Vasyl Lubentsov).
Author of articles:
"The Conductor and the Musical Culture of the Opera Performance" // "On the Culture of the Opera Performance", Moscow, 1956. pp. 39-66;
"Musical Theatre and Modernity" // "Issues of Development of Soviet Opera", Moscow, 1962, pp. 54-71.
