Yuri lyubimov biography

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Yuri Lyubimov, song of the formative directors be useful to Russian theatre and opera, petit mal today in Moscow.

Born in honesty year of the Bolshevik rebellion, he took charge of capital moribund Moscow theatre in 1964, renaming it the Taganka.

Lighten up staged 66 productions there both before being exiled by character Soviet regime in 1984, celebrated after his return.

Abroad, he exposition opera at La Scala, Town and Covent Garden where, abaft a rivetting Jenufa, he was commissioned to stage a Yield cycle. As he was direct in Israel at the at the double and seemed unwilling to concern Wagner’s drama from start suck up to finish, the project aborted tail end an unhappy Rheingold and a-okay reported falling out with dignity music director, Bernard Haitink.

Blue blood the gentry rest of the cycle was undertaken unoriginally by Goetz Friedrich.