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Pokrovsky was born in Moscow in 1912, five years before the Communists overthrew the czar and seized power in the Bolshevik Revolution.
He became a director for the Bolshoi in 1943, starting a decades-long career at the renowned theatre during which he oversaw dozens of productions.
His productions of operas such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" became mainstays of the Bolshoi repertoire that were popular among Moscow's opera-going public and were performed repeatedly for decades.
He won top prizes for his work, receiving the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1961 and winning the Lenin Prize in 1980.
Pokrovsky retired as the Bolshoi's main operatic stage director in 1982 but still returned occasionally to direct new productions in the 1990s.
In his later years he also directed operas at a small chamber opera theatre in Moscow that was named after him.
In the course of his lifetime he staged more than 180 operas, according to his biography on the Bolshoi's website.
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He became a director for the Bolshoi in 1943, starting a decades-long career at the renowned theatre during which he oversaw dozens of productions.
His productions of operas such as Pyotr Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" became mainstays of the Bolshoi repertoire that were popular among Moscow's opera-going public and were performed repeatedly for decades.
He won top prizes for his work, receiving the title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union in 1961 and winning the Lenin Prize in 1980.
Pokrovsky retired as the Bolshoi's main operatic stage director in 1982 but still returned occasionally to direct new productions in the 1990s.
In his later years he also directed operas at a small chamber opera theatre in Moscow that was named after him.
In the course of his lifetime he staged more than 180 operas, according to his biography on the Bolshoi's website.
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