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Pokrovsky was born in Moscow, Russian Empire in 1912.
In 1972 Pokrovsky founded the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and he produced operas such as Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, Alfred Schnittke's Life with an Idiot, and in 1974 the first Soviet production of Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose since 1929.
In 1975 he took the Bolshoi Theatre on its first American tour.
Boris Pokrovsky died in Moscow in 2009.
General sponsor of the Bolshoi Theatre is Credit Suisse bank General partner of the Bolshoi Theatre is investment group Absolute Privileged partner of the Bolshoi Theatre is GUM |
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