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(b Yaroslavl’, 17/Sept 30, 1917). Israeli director of Russian origin. He began his career as an actor in Moscow, first with the Second Studio of the Moscow Arts Theatre, and then at the Vakhtangov Theatre, with which he toured Europe in 1957. From 1964 to 1984...
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(b Teheran, June 15, 1929); d San Fransisco, CA, August 31, 2013 American director and administrator of Iranian birth . After graduating from UCLA in 1953 with a degree in psychology, he turned to opera direction, serving as resident stage director for the Zürich Opera (1960–65) and the Geneva Opera (...
( fl 1865–80). Italian impresario . During the span of only a few years, he was the first impresario to bring Italian opera to the Far East, including Hong Kong (March 1867), Manila (summer 1867), Singapore (May 1869) and Batavia June 1869. He toured Java extensively in ...
