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Tchaikovsky (film)
''Tchaikovsky'' () is a 1970 Soviet biopic film directed by Igor Talankin. It featured Innokenty Smoktunovsky in the role of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Academy Award for Original Song Score and Adaptation. Plot When Tchaikovsky is composing his First Piano Concerto, his friend Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein refuses to play it at the premiere, considering it unplayable. After the disappointment of ''Swan Lake'', Nadezhda Filaretowna von Meck, a wealthy widow, sends him financial support. Later, Tchaikovsky embarks on his opera ''Eugene Onegin'', receiving a love letter from student Antonina Ivanovna. His attempt to meet her leads to his brief arrest. He then dedicates his Fourth Symphony to von Meck, who hopes Tchaikovsky's marriage will bring him peace. Struggling with married life, Tchaikovsky attempts suicide. Von Meck intervenes, offering financial aid to secure his div ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Talankin
Igor Vasilyevich Talankin () (3 October 1927 – 24 July 2010) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. His film ''Splendid Days'' (1960, co-directed with Georgiy Daneliya) won the Crystal Globe (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival), Crystal Globe (the main award) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, and ''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1969) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Selected filmography *''Splendid Days'' (1960) *''Introduction to Life'' (1962) *''Day Stars'' (1968) *''Tchaikovsky (film), Tchaikovsky'' (1969) *''Take Aim (1974 film), Take Aim'' (1974) *''Father Sergius (1978 film), Father Sergius'' (1978) *''Starfall (film), Starfall'' (1981) *''Time for Rest from Saturday to Monday'' (1984) References External links * 1927 births 2010 deaths People from Noginsk Academic staff of the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography People's Artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Onegin (opera)
''Eugene Onegin'' (, ), Op. 24, is an opera (designated as "lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto, organised by the composer himself, very closely follows certain passages in Alexander Pushkin's 1825–1832 novel in verse, retaining much of his poetry. Tchaikovsky's friend Konstantin Shilovsky contributed M. Triquet's verses in Act 2, Scene 1, while Tchaikovsky himself arranged the text for Lensky's arioso in Act 1, Scene 1, and almost all of Prince Gremin's aria in Act 3, Scene 1. ''Eugene Onegin'' is a well-known example of lyric opera, to which Tchaikovsky added music of a dramatic nature. The story concerns a selfish hero who lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend. The opera was first performed in Moscow in 1879. There are several recordings of it, and it is regularly performed. The work's title refers to the protagonist. Composition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alla Demidova
Alla Sergeyevna Demidova (; born 29 September 1936, Moscow) is a Russian actress internationally acclaimed for the tragic parts in innovative plays staged by Yuri Lyubimov in the Taganka Theatre. She was awarded the USSR State Prize (1977) and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (twice, 2007, 2001). Biography Alla Demidova was born on 29 September 1936 in Zamoskvorechye, Moscow, and spent her early years at the Osipenko (now Sadovnicheskaya) Street. Her father Sergey Alekseyevich Demidov, an heir to the Russian industrialists' family, was jailed in 1932 in the course of the Great Purge, but soon got acquitted. In 1941 he joined the Red Army as a volunteer and was killed in action 1944, near Warsaw. Alla's mother, Aleksandra Dmitriyevna Demidova (née Kharchenko) was working at the Economy department of the Moscow University (later at its Cybernetics and economic programming section).Rasskazova, TatyanaAlla With a Doggie www.demidova.ru. Mother and daughter spent the World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. His first major publication, a short story collection titled ''A Sportsman's Sketches'' (1852), was a milestone of Literary realism, Russian realism. His novel ''Fathers and Sons (novel), Fathers and Sons'' (1862) is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century fiction. Life Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in Oryol (modern-day Oryol Oblast, Russia) to Russian nobility, noble Russian parents Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev (1793–1834), a colonel in the Russian cavalry who took part in the French invasion of Russia, Patriotic War of 1812, and Varvara Petrovna Turgeneva (née Lutovinova; 1787–1850). His father belonged to an old, but impoverished Turgenev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Freindlich
Bruno Arturovich Freindlich (10 October 19099 July 2002) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1974). His daughter Alisa Freindlich is also a famous actress. Biography A native of Saint Petersburg and German ancestry, Bruno Freindlich began his career as an actor, performing for audiences of children. For two years he worked at the Bolshoi Theatre of Drama. Since 1948, he has been a leading actor of the former Alexandrine Theatre. Among his stage works were Khlestakov in ''The Government Inspector'' and Hamlet in Grigori Kozintsev's staging of Shakespeare's play. He played the roles of Peer Gynt, père Goriot, and Gayev in ''The Cherry Orchard'', and Baron in ''The Lower Depths''. One of the dearest roles of Freindlich, which he played for many years, was the part of writer Ivan Turgenev in the play ''Elegy''. For the role of Guglielmo Marconi in the propaganda film '' Alexander Popov'' he won the Stalin Prize (1951). Death Freindlich died in Saint Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Désirée Artôt
Désirée Artôt (; 21 July 1835 – 3 April 1907) was a Belgian soprano (initially a mezzo-soprano), who was famed in German and Italian opera and sang mainly in Germany. In 1868 she was engaged, briefly, to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who may have coded her name into works such as his First Piano Concerto and the ''Romeo and Juliet'' Fantasy-Overture. After her 1869 marriage to the Spanish baritone Mariano Padilla y Ramos, she was known as Désirée Artôt de Padilla or Désirée Artôt-Padilla. Biography Family background Marguerite-Joséphine-Désirée Montagney Artôt was the daughter of Jean Désiré Montagney Artôt, a horn player at La Monnaie in Brussels and professor at the Brussels Conservatory. Her uncle was the violinist Alexandre Artôt (1815–1845). He had been born Alexandre Joseph (or Joseph-Alexandre) Montagney, but adopted the surname Artôt professionally, and the rest of his family followed suit. Another uncle was the Belgian portrait painter C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship.Maya Plisetskaya profile viola.bz; accessed 2 May 2015. She danced during the Soviet era at the under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich; later she moved into direct confrontation with him. In 1960, when famed Russian ballerina [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Leonov
Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (; 2 September 1926 – 29 January 1994) was a Soviet and Russian actor who played main parts in several of the most famous Soviet films, such as '' Gentlemen of Fortune'', '' Mimino'' and '' Striped Trip''. Called "one of Russia's best-loved actors",''Death: Yevgeny Leonov.'' The Guardian (London). 23 February 1994. he also provided the voice for many Soviet cartoon characters, including ''Vinny Pukh'' (''Winnie-the-Pooh''). Early life While growing up in a typical Moscow family, he dreamed of becoming a war-plane pilot, which was a very common desire of many boys of the World War II period. This is also often attributed to the fact that his father worked in an airplane factory. During the Great Patriotic War he and his whole family worked in a weapon manufacturing/aviation factory. After the war, he joined the Moscow Art Theatre School, where he studied under Mikhail Yanshin. Career In his first film, Leonov was cast as an extra and did not receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Władysław Pachulski
Władysław Pachulski (c. 18551919) was a Polish violinist, pianist and amateur composer who was the secretary to and later son-in-law of Nadezhda von Meck, the patroness for 13 years of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Pachulski was often the intermediary between composer and patroness, who had agreed never to meet face to face but to conduct an epistolary relationship. He played a significant role in the events surrounding the sudden break between them in 1890, and probably even instigated it. He lived in Russia most of his adult life, where his name was rendered as Владислав Альбертович Пахульский (''Vladislav Al'bertovich Pakhul'sky''). He was the elder brother of the composer Henryk Pachulski. Biography Władysław Pachulski was born in Łazy, Lublin Voivodeship, Congress Poland in 1855 or 1857, to a poor family.Poznansky, p. 288 He studied at the Moscow Conservatory and one of his teachers there for some time was Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. In 1877 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cholera
Cholera () is an infection of the small intestine by some Strain (biology), strains of the Bacteria, bacterium ''Vibrio cholerae''. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea lasting a few days. Vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. Diarrhea can be so severe that it leads within hours to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. This can in turn result in Enophthalmia, sunken eyes, cold or cyanotic skin, decreased skin elasticity, wrinkling of the hands and feet, and, in severe cases, death. Symptoms start two hours to five days after exposure. Cholera is caused by a number of Serotype, types of ''Vibrio cholerae'', with some types producing more severe disease than others. It is spread mostly by Waterborne diseases, unsafe water and Foodborne illness, unsafe food that has been contaminated with human feces containing the bacteria. Undercooked shellfish is a common source. Humans are the only known host fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Queen Of Spades (opera)
''The Queen of Spades'' or ''Pique Dame'', Op. 68 (, ''Pikovaya dama'' , ) is an opera in three acts (seven scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to a Russian libretto by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, based on the 1834 novella of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, but with a dramatically altered plot. The premiere took place in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Composition history The Imperial Theatre offered Tchaikovsky a commission to write an opera based on the plot sketch by Ivan Vsevolozhsky in 1887/88. After first turning it down, Tchaikovsky accepted it in 1889. Toward the end of that year, he met the theatre's managers to discuss the material and sketch out some of the scenes. He completed the full score in Florence in only 44 days. Later, working with the tenor who was to perform the lead character, he created two versions of Herman's aria in the seventh scene, using different keys. The changes can be found in the proof sheets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maid Of Orleans (opera)
The Maid of Orleans may refer to: *Joan of Arc * "The Maid of Orleans" (poem), a 1730 unfinished poem by Voltaire * ''The Maid of Orleans'' (play), an 1801 historical tragedy by Friedrich Schiller * ''The Maid of Orleans'' (opera), an 1881 an opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on Schiller's play * " Maid of Orleans (The Waltz Joan of Arc)", a 1982 single by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), sequel to their earlier single "Joan of Arc" * Jasminum sambac ''Jasminum sambac'' (Arabian jasmine or Sambac jasmine) is a species of jasmine native to Bhutan and India. It is cultivated in many places, especially West Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is naturalised in many scattered locales: Mauri ..., a flowering plant sometimes referred to as Maid of Orleans * オルレアンの少女 (Maid of Orleans), a song by Japanese visual kei band exist†trace. * Maid of Orleans, a song by Spanish power metal band Dark Moor * Maid of Orleans (horse) See also * Joan of Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
