Leonid Fedorovich Khudoley (Khudoley, Leonid) |

Khudoley, Leonid

Soviet conductor, Honored Artist of the Latvian SSR (1954), People’s Artist of the Moldavian SSR (1968). Artistic activity of Khudoley began in 1926 even before he entered the conservatory. He worked as a conductor of the opera and symphony orchestra of the Directorate of Spectacle Enterprises in Rostov-on-Don (until 1930). While studying at the Moscow Conservatory with M. Ippolitov-Ivanov and N. Golovanov, Khudoley was an assistant conductor at the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR (1933-1935). After graduating from the conservatory (1935), he worked at the Stanislavsky Opera House. Here he happened to collaborate with K. Stanislavsky and V. Meyerhold in staging several works. In 1940-1941, Khudoley was the artistic director and chief conductor of the First Decade of Tajik Art in Moscow. Since 1942, he served as chief conductor in the musical theaters of Minsk, Riga, Kharkov, Gorky, and in 1964 he headed the Opera and Ballet Theater in Chisinau. In addition, Khudoley worked as the artistic director of the All-Union Recording House (1945-1946), after the Great Patriotic War he was the chief conductor of the symphony orchestra of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic. More than a hundred operas were Khudoley’s repertoire (among them there are many first performances). The conductor paid primary attention to Russian classics and Soviet music. Khudoley taught young conductors and singers at the conservatories in Moscow, Riga, Kharkov, Tashkent, Gorky, and Chisinau.

L. Grigoriev, J. Platek, 1969