David Nail - Kiss You Tonight

PAVLOV-ARBENIN Alexander Vasilievich [30 VIII (11 IX) 1871, Petersburg - 22 VI 1941, Leningrad] - Soviet conductor and music. figure. Failed activist Arts of the RSFSR (1937). He was a pianist-accompanist, performed as an opera singer (dram. Tenor). He began conducting activities in 1897 in St. Petersburg, and from 1905 he conducted opera performances in St. Petersburg. People’s House (until 1906; “Igor Igor” and “Mermaid” were staged under his leadership with the participation of F. I. Chaliapin), from 1906 - in provincial theaters, then in St. Petersburg. T-re muses. dramas (in 1913-18). After 1918 he conducted performances at the Bolshoi Theater (Washington), at the opera houses of Baku, Kazan, Samara, Tbilisi, Sverdlovsk. Since 1934, Ch. Conductor of the Opera and Ballet Theater in Saratov. He performed as a symph. conductor. P.-A. He was a brightly gifted conductor, possessed a great temperament and rich creativity. fantasy.However, his interpretation of Dep. production was controversial. At hand. P.-A. the operas were staged: Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Queen of Spades (all - 1901, Kharkov), The Tsar's Bride, Tale of Tsar Saltan, Tannhauser (all - 1902, Irkutsk), Faust (1905, St. Petersburg), “The Snow Maiden” (1913, St. Petersburg), “Gliere's Shahsenem” (1927, Baku), “For the Sickle and the Hammer” (to the music of the opera “Ivan Susanin”, 1924, Odessa), etc.