Ruslan Hryhorovych Dorozhivskyi (born 24 March 1942, Nadvirna, now Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian conductor and teacher, professor. He has been an Honoured Artist of the Ukrainian SSR since 1989.
Biography.
He was born on 24 March 1942 in Nadvirna (now Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine). In 1970, he graduated from the Lviv Conservatory, where he studied under Mykola Kolessa.
From 1972 to 1977, he worked as a conductor of the Ivan Franko Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre; from 1977 to 1994, he was a conductor of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1984-1994, he also headed the Department of Opera Training at the Kyiv Conservatory. In 1994-1995, he worked at the Ankara Opera House.
In 1995-1999, he was the General Director and Artistic Director of the Ivan Franko Lviv Opera and Ballet Theatre, and since 1995 he has been teaching at the Mykola Lysenko Higher State Music Institute in Lviv. Since 1999, he has been a professor at the Department of Musical Art at the Institute of Arts of the Precarpathian University in Ivano-Frankivsk, where in 2003 he founded and has been leading the Symphony Orchestra.
Creative work.
As a conductor, he participated in the following productions
operas
"Cossack Beyond the Danube by Semen Hulak-Artemovsky;
"The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky;
"Werther by Jules Massenet;
"Pebbles by Stanislav Moniushko;
"The Sorochinsky Fair by Modest Mussorgsky;
"The Secret Marriage by Domenico Cimarosa;
"La bohème, Madame Butterfly, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini;
ballets
"A Magic Dream with music by Mykola Lysenko;
"The Legend of Love by Arif Melikov;
"Coppélia by Leo Delibes.
