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Leonid Baratov
Леонид Баратов
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1 April 1895 - 22 July 1964
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Soviet director and People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Vasilyevich Baratov was born in 1895 in Moscow. Since 1918, Leonid Baratov has played and directed various drama theaters, including the Sverdlovsk Theatre, the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1923, Leonid Baratov staged the comedy “Lizistrat” on the stage of the music studio of the Moscow Art Theatre.
After the success of the play, Leonid Baratov became an actor and director of the studio, and later an actor and director of the Stanislavsky
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Soviet director and People's Artist of the RSFSR Leonid Vasilyevich Baratov was born in 1895 in Moscow. Since 1918, Leonid Baratov has played and directed various drama theaters, including the Sverdlovsk Theatre, the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1923, Leonid Baratov staged the comedy “Lizistrat” on the stage of the music studio of the Moscow Art Theatre.
After the success of the play, Leonid Baratov became an actor and director of the studio, and later an actor and director of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. Among the best works of the great director, one can note the performances The Tarasa Family (1951), War and Peace (1957).
In 1924, Leonid Baratov starred in the satiristic comedy of Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky “The Shipping Girl from Mosselprom”.
. Despite the fact that the film received a lot of positive reviews, Baratov wanted to create himself. And in 1925 he shot the picture “Child of the state circus” – a children’s adventure film based on the script by Olga Blazhevich.
After the war, Leonid Baratov became the main director of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, on the stage of which he staged the operas “Prince Igor”, “Turandot”, “Pskovitian”, “Mazepa”, “Boris Godunov”, “Khovanshchyna”, “Ivan Susanin”, “Sorochinskaya Fair” and many others, which not only went down in history, but are classics of opera theater life. The style of productions directed by Baratov was characterized by attention to detail and clarity, transparency of the production, which found the base love of the public.
Leonid Baratov is one of the few who was awarded five Stalin Prizes. These awards he received for the production of the opera “Emelyan Pugachev”, “Boris Godunov”, “Mazepa”, “Khovanshchyna” and “The Taras Family”. In 1964, the great opera director died. Leonid Baratov was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow. /