Boris Khaikin

Boris Emmanuilovich KhaykinTemplate:Fn (Russian: Борис Эммануилович Хайкин; 26 October [O.S. 13 October] 1911 – May 10 1978) was a Russian conductor who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1972.

Khaykin was born in Minsk, then part of the Russian Empire (and nowadays the capital of Belarus). He was artistic director of the Little Leningrad Opera Theatre in 1936-43 and the principal conductor at the Kirov Theatre in 1944-53. He moved to the Bolshoi Theatre in 1954. He is especially famous for his two critically acclaimed recordings of Khovanshchina (1946, with Mark Reizen ; 1972, with Irina Arkhipova). He also recorded several operas and ballets by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He died in Moscow.

Footnotes

• Template:Fnb Sometimes also transliterated as "Khajkin" or "Chaikin" or also (rarely) as "Khaikin".

References

• Bolshoi Theatre: Biography of Boris Khaykin, in Russian. URL last accessed July 19 2006.

External links

• IMDb: Boris Khajkin. URL last accessed July 19, 2006.
• N.N.: Conductors of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. In English. Archived URL last accessed July 19, 2006.