Yuri Lyubimov died, biggest name in Russian theater – Reuters

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

It was one of the greats of Russian theater, founded the group Taganka. Your style endowed with invention encouraged several generations. Yuri Lyubimov died Sunday at age 77.

                     

                          AFP writes Sunday that one died “Titan”. The director, who founded the Taganka theater group, which became a symbol of resistance to censorship and arbitrariness of Soviet power, was known for introducing innovative pieces, whose visual inventiveness has earned him international recognition.

hospitalized a few days ago with cardiac complications, his death was announced Sunday at a Moscow hospital. Russian President Vladimir Putin reacted to the news, saying that “it would be difficult to overestimate the role of Yuri Lyubimov in the development of contemporary Russian theater.”

Born in 1917, Lyubimov began directing theater productions avant garde in the 1960′s His career in the theater, however, had begun as early as actor. The director worked with the biggest names in Russian culture, including Vsevolod Meyerhold the director, the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, the writer Boris Pasternak and the singer and actor Vladimir Vyssotski.

His career, his life is forever linked to the Taganka, which he founded in 1963 He remained there for two decades, showing that Russia could also be creative, despite all the pressures of the regime. In early 1980, Lyubimov’s productions were banned by the Soviet regime in 1984 and lost his Soviet citizenship. Then found himself obliged to leave the country, managing to keep his career, both in Europe and in the United States.

Five years later, Yuri Lyubimov back to Moscow, the theater she founded and remained there until 2011 , the year it came out, after a confrontation with the cast of the Taganka. It all started because of a misunderstanding and ended in failure. The cast of the theater demanded payment in advance to perform at a festival in the Czech Republic, Lyubimov not adopted the attitude, and the two sides have moved away.

He left for his decision but no longer working. Said he still had plenty of life and strength now to do nothing and was then driving another theater, Vajtangov, not least that the Taganka.