Boris Chistyakov (23 June 1914, St. Petersburg - 28 January 1980, Kiev) was a Ukrainian Soviet ballet dancer, ballet and opera conductor and People's Artist of the USSR (1960).
He was born on June 23, 1914 in St. Petersburg. His parents were ballerina Alexandra Gavrilova and choreographer and teacher Ilya Chistyakov.
He studied at the Kiev Ballet Studio of his father I. Chistyakov and at the Moscow Choreographic School (1925-1927).
1927-1932 - acted in Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko.
1937-1977 - after graduation from the Kiev Conservatoire (class of opera and symphony conducting) - conducted the Kiev Shevchenko Theatre of Opera and Ballet.
1960 - National Artist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Creation of
Of great importance for the ballet art of Ukraine was Chistyakov's work on productions of ballets by national composers at the Kiev Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre:
"Forest Song" by M. Skorulsky (1946, 1958).
"Marusya Boguslavka" by A. Svechnikov (1951, 1954)
"Lilya" by K. Dankevich (1956)
"Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors" by V. Kireiko (1963)
"Princess Volkonskaya" by Yu. Znatokov (1966)
"Poem about Marina" by Yarovinsky (1968)
Conductor-producer of ballets at the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre:
"Vain Precaution" (1937, 1947)
"Straussiana" (1943, Irkutsk)
"Coppelia (1943, Irkutsk; 1954)
"Raymonda" (1946)
"Gayane (1947)
"Esmeralda" (1948, 1962)
"Cinderella" (1948)
"Doctor Aibolit" (1949)
"The Red Poppy" (1949)
"The Sleeping Beauty" (1950, 1954)
"Under the Sky of Italy" by Jurowski (1952)
"The Little Humpbacked Horse" (1953)
"Don Quixote" (1953)
"Romeo and Juliet (1955)
"Swan Lake (reconstruction, 1958)"
"Giselle" (1959)
"The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" (1961)
"The Seven Beauties" (1963)
"Spartacus" (1964)
Khachaturian's "The Call of the Fatherland" (1965)
"The Stone Flower" (1965)
"The Legend of Love" by A. Melikov (1967)
Conducted ballets during tours of the Kiev ballet company to Yugoslavia, Romania, France, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Japan.
Recording by
Opera "Natalka Poltavka" by N.Lysenko, conductor - B.Chistyakov.
Choir and orchestra of the Kiev Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre. Performers: Natalka - Z. Gadai, Voznyy - S. Ivashchenko, Vyborny - I. Patorzhinsky, Terpeliha - M. Litvinenko-Volhemut, Mikola - M. Grishko, Petro - I. Kozlovsky, Svat - I. Kliakun.
