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On the 25th of January the opera by P. Tchaikovsky “Eugene Onegin” dedicated to the memory of Boris Pokrovsky has been presented on the stage of Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. On the 23th of January the great opera director would have celebrate his 98th birthday.
The significance and importance of Boris Pokrovsky for the Russian and the world opera theatre can scarcely be overestimated or exaggerated. He used to be and still is the great teacher for Galina Vishnevskaya and she always keeps the best and warm-hearted memories about him. The Opera Centre takes a legitimate pride in the cooperation with Boris Pokrovsky – in his master-classes, his premieres, his opinion and advices to the professors and students.
Welcoming the audience, Galina Vishnevskaya told, that “Eugene Onegin” was the one of the first performances by Pokrovsky in Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Galina Vishnevskaya had the good fortune to sing the part of Tatiana in that performance. It was in 1952. Boris Pokrovsky directed this opera many times after that again and again, he was in love with this masterpiece of opera, with the art of opera. And Pokrovsky was created for this art. “And if we are going to contribute our mite to the world opera art, we are considering it as our great honour and happiness and so we are doing it”.
The honour guest of the night was the widow of Boris Pokrovsky professor of the Opera centre Irina Maslennikova, who granted to Galina Vishnevskaya the portrait of Pokrovsky as a memory about the great master.