Yevgeny Vladimirivich Kolobov (Russian:Евгений Владимирович Колобов; 19 January 1946 – 15 June 2003) was a Russianconductor.
Upon graduation from the song-school under theGlinka Chapel inLeningrad and theUrals State Conservatory,[1] he started his career as a principal conductor in 1974 of theEkaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre (1974–1981).
In 1981, he became a conductor at the world-famousMariinsky Theatre inSt. Petersburg.
In 1987, Evgeny Kolobov was appointed musical director of theStanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre inMoscow.
In 1991, Evgeny Kolobov and a number of his like-minded colleagues, supported by Moscow MayorYuri Luzhkov, founded theNovaya Opera Theatre of Moscow and was its artistic director until his sudden death byheart attack.[2]
One of Kolobov's lifelong ambitions was to revive undeservedly forgotten music and to produce new, modern interpretations of well-known compositions. Yevgeny Kolobov was the first opera conductor in Russia to stage Verdi's La forza del destino, Bellini'sIl Pirata, Donizetti'sMaria Stuarda, Catalani'sLa Wally, Verdi'sI Due Foscari, Mussorgsky'sBoris Godunov in the composer's original version and Thomas'sHamlet. He has also produced new, remarkable stagings of Glinka'sRuslan and Lyudmila, "O Mozart! Mozart..." (based on the opera Mozart and Salieri byRimsky-Korsakov and Mozart'sRequiem), Tchaikovsky'sEugene Onegin, Golovin'sFirst Love (Kolobov's debut as stage director), Verdi'sLa Traviata.
Kolobov's style of conducting was highly expressive and energetic, he was acclaimed by opera lovers and critics alike as one of the best opera conductors in modern Russia.
He was awarded the titlesHonored Art Worker of Russia (1979) andPeople's Artist of the RSFSR (1983).[3][4] Yevgeny Kolobov was honored with the prestige national prizesTriumph andGolden Mask, a special award of the Moscow Government for achievements in the arts and the Order Creator of St. Petersburg. Laureate of theState Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of musical art (2003, posthumously).[5]
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