Gennady Panteleimonovich Provatorov (Provatorov, Gennady) |

Provatorov, Gennady

People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1981). A significant event in the artistic life not only of Moscow, but of our entire country was the staging (after an almost thirty-year break) of D. Shostakovich’s opera Katerina Izmailova. This production was performed on the stage of the Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko by a young conductor Gennady Provatorov. He came to this theater in 1961.

After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, from 1956, where he studied at the piano department with A. Goldenweiser, and mastered the art of conducting under the guidance of K. Kondrashin, then A. Gauk – Provatorov spent several years in Ukraine, heading successively Kharkov (1957-1958) and Dnepropetrovsk (1958-1961) orchestras. Returning to Moscow, he worked fruitfully at the Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, in addition to “Katerina Izmailova”, showing some more interesting works. Together with the theater, the conductor traveled to the cities of the GDR, where under his direction were “Katerina Izmailova”, as well as “Into the Storm” by T. Khrennikov. After an internship at the Bolshoi Theater (1965), Provatorov returned to Ukraine – since 1965 he has been the chief conductor of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1968, Provatorov headed the Maly Opera Theater in Leningrad. In 1971-1981. was the chief conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the Kuibyshev Philharmonic.

In 1984-1989. headed the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater of the Byelorussian SSR, continued to work with him in subsequent years; Provatorov’s productions include Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina (2003) and Prokofiev’s War and Peace, Tchaikovsky’s ballets Swan Lake and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, as well as works by Belarusian composers — the premiere of the opera The Visit of the Lady by Sergei Cortes (1995). ) and the ballet “Passion (Rogneda)” by Andrei Mdivani (1996). In 1998-1999 headed the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus. Buried in Moscow.