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Yuri Lyubimov

April 09, 2024

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Lyubimov.

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (Russian: Ю́рий Петро́вич Люби́мов; 30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1917 – 5 October 2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre,[1] which he founded in 1964.[2][3] He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.[4]

Yuri Lyubimov
Юрий Любимов
Lyubimov in 2007
Born
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov

(1917-09-30)30 September 1917
Yaroslavl, Russian Republic
Died5 October 2014(2014-10-05) (aged 97)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation(s)Stage actor, theatre director
Years active1935–2014
SpouseKatalin Lyubimova (1978-2014)
Awards
Website (archived)

Life and career edit

Lyubimov was born in Yaroslavl in 1917. His grandfather was a kulak who fled to Moscow to escape arrest during the collectivisation. Lyubimov's father, Pyotr Zakharovich, was a merchant, who worked for a Scottish company, and his mother, Anna Alexandrovna, was a half-Russian and half-Gypsy schoolteacher. They moved to Moscow in 1922, where both were arrested. Lyubimov studied at the Institute for Energy in Moscow.[5]

He was a member of Mikhail Chekhov's Second Moscow Art Theater from 1934 to 1936. During the 1930s, he also met Vsevolod Meyerhold, the avant-garde director. Lyubimov worked in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the NKVD, where he met and befriended Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Erdman and many others.[6]

After service in the Red Army during World War II, Lyubimov joined the Vakhtangov Theatre (founded by Yevgeny Vakhtangov). In 1953, he received the USSR State Prize. Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka Theatre the following year. His celebrated production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan with Anna Orochko's class at the Schukin Theatre Institute earned him the artistic directorship of the Taganka Theatre. With Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov and Brecht as his spiritual guides, Lyubimov eschewed Soviet drama for the more imaginative worlds of poetry and narrative fiction, which he dramatized, and the classics, which he broke apart, reconstituted and presented from a pronounced critical perspective.[7] Under Lyubimov, the theatre rose to become the most popular in Moscow, with Vladimir Vysotsky and Alla Demidova as the leading actors. In 1971 Shakespeare's Hamlet became one of Lyubimov's highly successful and much acclaimed productions.[8] In 1976 he was awarded by the BITEF First Prize for Hamlet.

In 1975 he directed the original production of Al gran sole carico d'amore by Luigi Nono at the Teatro alla Scala (Nono himself and Lyubimov wrote the libretto).

Long a Soviet underground classic, Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita was finally brought to the Russian stage at the Taganka in 1977, in an adaptation by Lyubimov.[9]

According to B. Beumers, the major innovations Lyubimov brought to theatrical history are the creation of a new theatrical genre, the poetic theatre, in which all revolves around one metaphor, and the creation of a new form of dramatic material, which incorporates a historical and biographical context.[10] Lyubimov's performances — including the well-known Antiworlds, Pugachev, Listen!, and Comrade, believe, as well as newer Before and After, Oberiuty, and Honey — were fed and filled with poetic energy. In another performance, Fallen and Living, Yuri Lyubimov and David Samoilov built on verses by Pavel Kogan, Semyon Gudzenko and other poets of the World War II generation.[11]

After Vysotsky's death in 1980, all of Lyubimov's productions were banned by the Communist authorities. In 1984, he was stripped of Soviet citizenship. Thereupon he worked abroad before returning to the Taganka Theatre in 1989. His staging of Eugene Onegin premiered in the Taganka on his 85th birthday to much critical acclaim.

While in the West he maintained a busy directing career. In the United States he directed Crime and Punishment at Arena Stage and Lulu at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1983 he directed Crime and Punishment in London, winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Director, in 1985 he directed St Matthew Passion at La Scala. His effort to re-stage his famous The Master and Margarita at the American Repertory Theater failed to materialize because of a disagreement with the management of that company. In 1989, his Russian citizenship was restored.[12]

In June 2011, before a performance of Bertolt Brecht's play The Good Person of Szechwan in Czech, the actors of Taganka refused to rehearse unless they were paid first. Lyubimov paid the money and left the theatre. "I've had enough of this disgrace, these humiliations, this lack of desire to work, this desire just for money", he said.[4] Lyubimov retired from the theatre the following week. Two leading actors of theatre, Dmitry Mezhevich and Alla Smirdan,[13] as well as some administrative assistants,[14] followed Lyubimov. His dramatization of Dostoevsky's Demons premiered the next year.

In June 2013 Lyubimov staged Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor at the Bolshoi Theatre, which was warmly received by audiences and critics.[15] The new Prince Igor is shorter, with Lyubimov cutting out some parts of the opera. According to Vassily Sinaisky, the Bolshoi chief conductor, such a new structure of the opera was conceived to make it more dynamic and intense.[16]

Lyubimov staged over 100 dramas and operas. "People tried to stick me with the label of political theater. But that's wrong. I was engaged in an aesthetic, in the expansion of the palette — what shades could be added in working with space and style," he says.[6] Leonardo Shapiro concludes that "Lyubimov is probably best known for his daring theatrical adaptations of poetry and novels and his successful (and sometimes unsuccessful) run-ins with Soviet Premiers and Ministers of Culture over forbidden material."[17]

As an actor, he performed in 37 plays and 17 films, and several remain classics.

Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated some of his famous songs (including "It's Not Evening Yet"[18]) to Yuri Lyubimov.

Lyubimov, a director who dominated Russian theatre for half a century, died at 97, after being admitted to the Botkin Clinic in Moscow with heart failure.[19]

Europe Theatre Prize edit

In 2011 he was awarded a Special Prize by the Jury of the XIV Europe Theatre Prize, in Saint Petersburg. The prize organization stated:

There is a Special Prize for figures displaying particular commitment in combining their own cultural and/or political experience at the highest level with the European ideals and those of peace and coexistence between peoples (...) The Jury of the 14th edition unanimously awarded this to the legendary Russian director Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov for his unquestionable artistic stature and the crucial role that he and the Taganka Theatre played in the delicate phase of perestroika marking the transition from the Soviet Union to contemporary Russia.[20]

Awards edit

Selected productions edit

Selected filmography edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Hat hunted off head". BBC. 2 April 2000. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  2. ^ Юрий ЛЮБИМОВ: Может, когда меня били, я и стал режиссером Komsomolskaya Pravda 27 September 2007.
  3. ^ Юрий Любимов – тернистый путь настоящего Мастера 2016-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b "Russian playwright Yuri Lyubimov quits theatre company". BBC. 27 June 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  5. ^ Yury Lyubimov at the Taganka Theatre, 1964-1994 - Page 1, by Birgit Beumers
  6. ^ a b John Freedman (30 September 2012). . The Moscow Times. Archived from the original on 10 June 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  7. ^ The Cambridge Guide to Theatre - Page 656, by Martin Banham - 1995
  8. ^ FOUNDER OF THE THEATER ON TANGANKA YURI LYUBIMOV TURNS 93 Retrieved 5 December 2015.
  9. ^ The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre (CUP 1988)
  10. ^ Yuri Lyubimov: Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatre, by B. Beumers, 2004, p. 6.
  11. ^ Fallen and Living, Taganka Theatre
  12. ^ "Yuri Lyubimov, founder of Moscow's Taganka Theatre, dies aged 97". The Guardian. Moscow. Associated Press. 5 October 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  13. ^ [Yuri Lyubimov - Taganka Theater's abroad performances would not be held]. ITAR-TASS. 20 July 2011. Archived from the original on 10 September 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  14. ^ Четыре сотрудника Таганки покинули театр вслед за Любимовым [Four staff members left the Taganka Theater after Lyubimov]. Izvestia. 7 July 2011. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  15. ^ "ru:В Большом прошел премьерный показ "Князя Игоря" в постановке Любимова". Vesti (in Russian). 9 June 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  16. ^ The Prince Igor Opera Gets Revamped Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  17. ^ Shapiro, Leonardo BOMB Magazine Winter, 1991. Retrieved on 31 May 2013.
  18. ^ Владимир Высоцкий. 1968 год
  19. ^ . AFP. 5 October 2014. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
  20. ^ "Europe Theatre Prize - XIV Edition - Presentation". archivio.premioeuropa.org. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  21. ^ Some of the Titles and Awards of Y. P. Lyubimov
  22. ^ Grande Ufficiale dell’Ordine della Stella della solidarieta italiana Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov. March 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  23. ^ "XIV EDIZIONE". Premio Europa per il Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-01-04.

External links edit

 
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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs the patronymic is Petrovich and the family name is Lyubimov Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov Russian Yu rij Petro vich Lyubi mov 30 September O S 17 September 1917 5 October 2014 was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre 1 which he founded in 1964 2 3 He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world 4 Yuri LyubimovYurij LyubimovLyubimov in 2007BornYuri Petrovich Lyubimov 1917 09 30 30 September 1917Yaroslavl Russian RepublicDied5 October 2014 2014 10 05 aged 97 Moscow RussiaOccupation s Stage actor theatre directorYears active1935 2014SpouseKatalin Lyubimova 1978 2014 AwardsOrder For Merit to the Fatherland Russia 2nd class Order For Merit to the Fatherland 3rt class Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class Order of the Rising Sun Japan 4th Class Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity Grand Officer Ordre des Arts et des Lettres France Commandeur Order of the Polar Star Sweden Commandeur Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Knight s Cross Order of the Lion of Finland Commander Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Officer Order of the Red Banner of Labour USSR State Prize of the Russian Federation Stalin Prize USSR EU Europe Theatre Prize Special Prize 2011Websitewww lyubimov info archived Contents 1 Life and career 2 Europe Theatre Prize 3 Awards 4 Selected productions 5 Selected filmography 6 References 7 External linksLife and career editLyubimov was born in Yaroslavl in 1917 His grandfather was a kulak who fled to Moscow to escape arrest during the collectivisation Lyubimov s father Pyotr Zakharovich was a merchant who worked for a Scottish company and his mother Anna Alexandrovna was a half Russian and half Gypsy schoolteacher They moved to Moscow in 1922 where both were arrested Lyubimov studied at the Institute for Energy in Moscow 5 He was a member of Mikhail Chekhov s Second Moscow Art Theater from 1934 to 1936 During the 1930s he also met Vsevolod Meyerhold the avant garde director Lyubimov worked in the Song and Dance Ensemble of the NKVD where he met and befriended Dmitri Shostakovich Nikolai Erdman and many others 6 After service in the Red Army during World War II Lyubimov joined the Vakhtangov Theatre founded by Yevgeny Vakhtangov In 1953 he received the USSR State Prize Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka Theatre the following year His celebrated production of Bertold Brecht s The Good Person of Setzuan with Anna Orochko s class at the Schukin Theatre Institute earned him the artistic directorship of the Taganka Theatre With Meyerhold Stanislavsky Vakhtangov and Brecht as his spiritual guides Lyubimov eschewed Soviet drama for the more imaginative worlds of poetry and narrative fiction which he dramatized and the classics which he broke apart reconstituted and presented from a pronounced critical perspective 7 Under Lyubimov the theatre rose to become the most popular in Moscow with Vladimir Vysotsky and Alla Demidova as the leading actors In 1971 Shakespeare s Hamlet became one of Lyubimov s highly successful and much acclaimed productions 8 In 1976 he was awarded by the BITEF First Prize for Hamlet In 1975 he directed the original production of Al gran sole carico d amore by Luigi Nono at the Teatro alla Scala Nono himself and Lyubimov wrote the libretto Long a Soviet underground classic Mikhail Bulgakov s novel The Master and Margarita was finally brought to the Russian stage at the Taganka in 1977 in an adaptation by Lyubimov 9 According to B Beumers the major innovations Lyubimov brought to theatrical history are the creation of a new theatrical genre the poetic theatre in which all revolves around one metaphor and the creation of a new form of dramatic material which incorporates a historical and biographical context 10 Lyubimov s performances including the well known Antiworlds Pugachev Listen and Comrade believe as well as newer Before and After Oberiuty and Honey were fed and filled with poetic energy In another performance Fallen and Living Yuri Lyubimov and David Samoilov built on verses by Pavel Kogan Semyon Gudzenko and other poets of the World War II generation 11 After Vysotsky s death in 1980 all of Lyubimov s productions were banned by the Communist authorities In 1984 he was stripped of Soviet citizenship Thereupon he worked abroad before returning to the Taganka Theatre in 1989 His staging of Eugene Onegin premiered in the Taganka on his 85th birthday to much critical acclaim While in the West he maintained a busy directing career In the United States he directed Crime and Punishment at Arena Stage and Lulu at the Lyric Opera of Chicago In 1983 he directed Crime and Punishment in London winning the Evening Standard Award for Best Director in 1985 he directed St Matthew Passion at La Scala His effort to re stage his famous The Master and Margarita at the American Repertory Theater failed to materialize because of a disagreement with the management of that company In 1989 his Russian citizenship was restored 12 In June 2011 before a performance of Bertolt Brecht s play The Good Person of Szechwan in Czech the actors of Taganka refused to rehearse unless they were paid first Lyubimov paid the money and left the theatre I ve had enough of this disgrace these humiliations this lack of desire to work this desire just for money he said 4 Lyubimov retired from the theatre the following week Two leading actors of theatre Dmitry Mezhevich and Alla Smirdan 13 as well as some administrative assistants 14 followed Lyubimov His dramatization of Dostoevsky s Demons premiered the next year In June 2013 Lyubimov staged Alexander Borodin s opera Prince Igor at the Bolshoi Theatre which was warmly received by audiences and critics 15 The new Prince Igor is shorter with Lyubimov cutting out some parts of the opera According to Vassily Sinaisky the Bolshoi chief conductor such a new structure of the opera was conceived to make it more dynamic and intense 16 Lyubimov staged over 100 dramas and operas People tried to stick me with the label of political theater But that s wrong I was engaged in an aesthetic in the expansion of the palette what shades could be added in working with space and style he says 6 Leonardo Shapiro concludes that Lyubimov is probably best known for his daring theatrical adaptations of poetry and novels and his successful and sometimes unsuccessful run ins with Soviet Premiers and Ministers of Culture over forbidden material 17 As an actor he performed in 37 plays and 17 films and several remain classics Vladimir Vysotsky dedicated some of his famous songs including It s Not Evening Yet 18 to Yuri Lyubimov Lyubimov a director who dominated Russian theatre for half a century died at 97 after being admitted to the Botkin Clinic in Moscow with heart failure 19 Europe Theatre Prize editIn 2011 he was awarded a Special Prize by the Jury of the XIV Europe Theatre Prize in Saint Petersburg The prize organization stated There is a Special Prize for figures displaying particular commitment in combining their own cultural and or political experience at the highest level with the European ideals and those of peace and coexistence between peoples The Jury of the 14th edition unanimously awarded this to the legendary Russian director Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov for his unquestionable artistic stature and the crucial role that he and the Taganka Theatre played in the delicate phase of perestroika marking the transition from the Soviet Union to contemporary Russia 20 Awards editMedal For the Defence of Leningrad 1943 Medal For the Defence of Moscow Medal For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941 1945 Stalin Prize 2nd class 1952 for his role in the play Tyatina Yegor Bulychov and others by M Gorky Theatre Vakhtangov BITEF First Prize for Hamlet 1976 First Prize of Theatrical Meetings in Warsaw II International Festival Poland 1980 London Evening Standard Award for Crime and Punishment by F Dostoevsky 1983 Honored Artist of the RSFSR 1954 People s Artist of Russia 1991 Spectator s Sympathy Prize of the International Theatrical Festival in Athens 1995 Order of Merit for the Fatherland 3rd class Russia 16 September 1997 for his great personal contribution to the development of theatrical art State Prize of the Russian Federation 1997 Honorary Medal of the President of the Hungarian Republic 1997 Grand Prix of the International Festival in Saloniki 1999 Golden Mask in the nomination For Honour and Dignity Moscow 2000 21 Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters France 2002 for outstanding theatrical work Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity 2003 22 Knight of the Order of the Polar Star Sweden 2004 Silver Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland 2004 Order of the Rising Sun 4th Class Gold Rays with Rosette Japan 2007 Order of Merit for the Fatherland 2nd class Russia 25 September 2007 for outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art and many years of creative activity Honorary Member of Russian Academy of Arts Jubilee Medal 50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 1945 Medal of Zhukov 1996 Europe Theatre Prize Special Prize by the Jury 2011 23 Selected productions editThe Good Person of Setzuan with Boris Khmelnitsky Zinaida Slavina Nikolay Gubenko and Inna Ulyanova 1963 64 Ten Days that Shook the World 1965 Antiworlds 1965 Fallen and Living 1965 Life of Galileo 1966 Listen 1967 Pugachev 1967 Alive 1968 banned Tartuffe 1968 Rush Hour 1969 The Mother 1969 What Is to Be Done with Leonid Filatov 1970 Hamlet with Vladimir Visotsky 1971 And Here the Dawns are Silent with Natalya Sayko Maria Politseymako and Vitaly Shapovalov 1971 Comrade believe 1973 Wooden Horses 1974 Al gran sole carico d amore 1975 The Master and Margarita with Ivan Dykhovichny Veniamin Smekhov and Semyon Farada 1977 The Inspector s Recounting 1978 Turandot Brecht 1979 Boris Godunov opera 1979 The House on the Embankment 1980 Vladimir Visotsky 1981 The Threepenny Opera 1981 Boris Godunov with Vitaly Shapovalov Ivan Bortnik Valery Zolotukhin and Yury Belyayev 1982 banned Don Giovanni 1982 Crime and Punishment 1983 Lulu 1983 Rigoletto 1984 St Matthew Passion 1985 Fidelio 1985 A Feast in Time of Plague 1986 Salammbo Mussorgsky 1986 Tannhauser opera 1988 Das Rheingold 1988 The Suicide 1990 Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District 1990 The Love for Three Oranges 1991 Electra with Alla Demidova 1992 Zhivago Doctor with Valery Zolotukhin 1993 Jenufa 1993 The Seagull 1993 The Cherry Orchard 1995 Medea 1995 The Queen of Spades opera 1996 The Brothers Karamazov 1997 Marat Sade 1998 Sharashka 1998 Eugene Onegin 2000 Faust 2002 Oberiuty 2004 Antigone 2006 Woe from Wit 2007 The Castle 2008 Tales 2009 Honey 2010 Demons 2012 Prince Igor 2013 Selected filmography editDays and Nights 1944 as Misha Maslennikov Duel 1944 as a KGB officer uncredited A Noisy Household 1946 as Jacques Larochelle Robinzon Kruzo 1946 as Friday Blue Roads 1947 as Vetkyn Boy from the Outskirts 1947 as Kostya Smirnov Three Encounters 1948 as Rudnikov Michurin 1948 as a translator Cossacks of the Kuban 1949 as Andrei Farewell America 1951 as correspondent Blake The Composer Glinka 1952 as Alexander Dargomyzhsky Belinsky 1953 as a doctor Alexei Frolov Behind the Footlights 1956 as Graf Zefirov Kain XVIII 1963 as the First MinisterReferences edit Hat hunted off head BBC 2 April 2000 Retrieved 15 July 2011 Yurij LYuBIMOV Mozhet kogda menya bili ya i stal rezhisserom Komsomolskaya Pravda 27 September 2007 Yurij Lyubimov ternistyj put nastoyashego Mastera Archived 2016 11 07 at the Wayback Machine a b Russian playwright Yuri Lyubimov quits theatre company BBC 27 June 2011 Retrieved 15 July 2011 Yury Lyubimov at the Taganka Theatre 1964 1994 Page 1 by Birgit Beumers a b John Freedman 30 September 2012 Happy 95th Birthday Yury Lyubimov The Moscow Times Archived from the original on 10 June 2013 Retrieved 9 June 2013 The Cambridge Guide to Theatre Page 656 by Martin Banham 1995 FOUNDER OF THE THEATER ON TANGANKA YURI LYUBIMOV TURNS 93 Retrieved 5 December 2015 The Cambridge Guide to World Theatre CUP 1988 Yuri Lyubimov Thirty Years at the Taganka Theatre by B Beumers 2004 p 6 Fallen and Living Taganka Theatre Yuri Lyubimov founder of Moscow s Taganka Theatre dies aged 97 The Guardian Moscow Associated Press 5 October 2014 Retrieved 14 July 2016 Zarubezhnye gastroli Teatra na Taganke mogut ne sostoyatsya Yurij Lyubimov Yuri Lyubimov Taganka Theater s abroad performances would not be held ITAR TASS 20 July 2011 Archived from the original on 10 September 2012 Retrieved 27 July 2011 Chetyre sotrudnika Taganki pokinuli teatr vsled za Lyubimovym Four staff members left the Taganka Theater after Lyubimov Izvestia 7 July 2011 Retrieved 27 July 2011 ru V Bolshom proshel premernyj pokaz Knyazya Igorya v postanovke Lyubimova Vesti in Russian 9 June 2013 Retrieved 9 June 2013 The Prince Igor Opera Gets Revamped Retrieved 14 July 2016 Shapiro Leonardo 1 BOMB Magazine Winter 1991 Retrieved on 31 May 2013 Vladimir Vysockij 1968 god Russian theatre great for half century Yuri Lyubimov dies at 97 AFP 5 October 2014 Archived from the original on 6 October 2014 Retrieved 5 October 2014 Europe Theatre Prize XIV Edition Presentation archivio premioeuropa org Retrieved 2023 01 04 Some of the Titles and Awards of Y P Lyubimov Grande Ufficiale dell Ordine della Stella della solidarieta italiana Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov Archived March 30 2012 at the Wayback Machine XIV EDIZIONE Premio Europa per il Teatro in Italian Retrieved 2023 01 04 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yuri Lyubimov Official Website Yuri Lyubimov at IMDb Website on Lyubimov Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Yuri Lyubimov amp oldid 1179093165, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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