Ukrainian and Russian conductor. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1933). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1944), winner of the USSR State Prize in 1946.
From his biography.
He studied violin and conducting.
Since 1902, he has been working as a conductor of opera companies in Kyiv, Kharkiv (1904-1906), and Odesa (1909-1911).
In 1912-1922, he conducted the Musical Drama Theater and the People's House in Petrograd.
In 1927-1937, he headed the Kharkiv Opera and Ballet Theater and taught vocal classes at the Kharkiv Music and Drama Institute.
Since 1937 he has worked at the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater, and in 1942 he became a professor at the Sverdlovsk Conservatory.
He staged the following operas:
"The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" by B. V. Asafiev,
"The Caucasian Captive by B. V. Asafiev,
"Borodin's Prince Igor - Kharkiv,
"Wagner's Lohengrin - Kharkiv,
"Suvorov" by S. N. Vasilenko,
"Verdi's Otello - Sverdlovsk,
"Kupalo" by A. Vakhnyanin - Kharkiv,
"Raised Virgin Lands" by I. Dzerzhinsky,
"The Quiet Don" by I. Dzerzhinsky,
"Nadezhda Svetlova" by I. Dzerzhinsky,
"Omelyan Pugachev" by M. Koval,
"Golden Hoop" by B. Liatoshynskyi - Kharkiv,
"Boris Godunov by M. Mussorgsky - Kharkiv,
"Cio-Cio-San" by D. Puccini, Kharkiv,
"Thunderstorm" by V. M. Trambytsky,
"For Life by V. Trambytsky,
"The Rift" by Femelidi - Kharkiv,
"Gayane" by A. Khachaturian,
"Battleship Potemkin" by O. Chishko - Sverdlovsk.
