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The former chief director of the BDT Temur Chkheidze died
On June 5, at the age of 78, the theater director Temur Chkheidze died. This is reported by the Georgian Radio Liberty Service.
Chkheidze put about 80 dramatic, opera and television performances. In the 1960-80s he was the director of several theaters in Georgia. Since 1991, he collaborated with the Great Drama Theater in St. Petersburg, from 2004 to 2013 he was its chief director. It is also known for the production of operas, mainly Russian composers, on the stage of Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theaters, as well as the theaters of La Scala and the Metro-Opera. He was a national artist of Georgia and Russia.
Read an interview with Temur Chkheidze Radio Liberty 2016:
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