- Boris Khaykin
Boris Emmanuilovich Khaykinfn|1 (Russian: Борис Эммануилович Хайкин; OldStyleDate|26 October|1904|13 October –
May 10 1978 ) was aRussia nJewish conductor who was named aPeople's Artist of the USSR in 1972.Khaykin was born in
Minsk , then part of theRussian Empire (and nowadays the capital ofBelarus ). He was artistic director of the Little Leningrad Opera Theatre in 1936-43 and the principal conductor at theKirov Theatre in 1944-53, where he conducted the première ofSergei Prokofiev 's "Betrothal in a Monastery " on 3 November 1946. He moved to theBolshoi Theatre in 1954.He is especially famous for his two critically acclaimed recordings of "
Khovanshchina " (1946, withMark Reizen ; 1972, withIrina Arkhipova ). He also recorded several operas and ballets byPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , notably a "Eugene Onegin" withGalina Vishnevskaya andSergei Lemeshev . He died inMoscow .Footnotes
*fnb|1 Sometimes also transliterated as "Khajkin" or "Chaikin" or also (rarely) as "Khaikin".
References
*Bolshoi Theatre: " [http://www.bolshoi.ru/ru/theatre/people/detail.php?act26=info&id26=474 Biography of Boris Khaykin] ", in Russian. URL last accessed
July 19 2006 .External links
*imdb name|0451042|B. Khajkin Retrieved on
July 19 ,2006 .
*N.N.: " [http://web.archive.org/web/20020612155718/http://www.balet.ru/english/about_legend_2_16.phtml Conductors of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra] . In English. Archived URL last accessedJuly 19 ,2006 .
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