Boris Khaykin

Boris Emmanuilovich Khaykinfn|1 (Russian: Борис Эммануилович Хайкин; OldStyleDate|26 October|1904|13 October – May 10 1978) was a Russian Jewish conductor who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1972.

Khaykin was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire (and nowadays the capital of Belarus). He was artistic director of the Little Leningrad Opera Theatre in 1936-43 and the principal conductor at the Kirov Theatre in 1944-53, where he conducted the première of Sergei Prokofiev's "Betrothal in a Monastery" on 3 November 1946. He moved to the Bolshoi Theatre in 1954.

He is especially famous for his two critically acclaimed recordings of "Khovanshchina" (1946, with Mark Reizen ; 1972, with Irina Arkhipova). He also recorded several operas and ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, notably a "Eugene Onegin" with Galina Vishnevskaya and Sergei Lemeshev. He died in Moscow.

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 accessed July 19, 2006.