 | Conductor •People's Artist of Russia
•Recipient of the Government of St Petersburg Prize
•Recipient of the Golden Sofit, St Petersburg's most prestigious theatre prize
•Nominee for the Golden Mask, Russia's most prestigious theatre prize Graduated from the Leningrad State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Professor Musin).
From 1968-1993 was a conductor with the Maly Theatre of Opera and Ballet and managed a wide repertoire of operas and ballets. Toured with the company to Austria, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, France and Japan.
In 1987 together with stage director Alexander Petrov, he established the "Zazerkalye" State Children's Music Theatre and remains Principal Conductor of the theatre to this day. In addition to children's performances he has staged many classical works including L'elisir d'amore, Les contes d'Hoffmann, La bohème, Porgy and Bess and Iolanta. His production of Banshchikov's opera Melpomene's Lover, dedicated to the founder of Russian theatre Fyodor Volkov, proved a significant event. This work was also awarded the Government of St Petersburg Prize. From the 2004-2005 season he has been a guest conductor with the Mariinsky Theatre, where he worked on a production of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly. Conducts the operas Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, The Tsar's Bride, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, La traviata, Rigoletto, Nabucco and Madama Butterfly and the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker, Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet, Leningrad Symphony, The Young Lady and the Hooligan, Symphony in С, The Overcoat after Gogol and Le réveil de Flore (revival of the 1894 production). Has toured with the Mariinsky Ballet Company as a guest conductor to the USA, the UK, Canada, Japan and Sicily. Performs symphony programmes with various St Petersburg orchestras.
In March 2006 Pavel Bubelnikov directed a production of Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta at the Galina Vishnevskaya Centre of Opera in Moscow (staged by Alexander Petrov). The opera was also performed at the outstanding singer's anniversary celebration in St Petersburg at the Hermitage Theatre with the "Zazerkalye" orchestra. |
