Рецензии в стихах на оперные и драматические постановки в одесской периодике 1915–1917 гг

Abstract

Odessa is the city with old theater traditions. From 1887 to 1920 thirty seven editions about theater, music and cinema were published, 18 newspapers and 19 magazines. In the newspapers there was a detailed information about repertoire, in some issues there were articles and reviews. In the magazines there was a minute information about theater life, reviews, theoretical articles, the poems of local and metropolitan poets, interviews with actors. The Opera season of 1915–1916 was considered to be successful, the only exception was opera “Eugene Onegin”. In the magazine «Yuzhnyj muzykalnyj vestnik» №1-2 (1916) the poetical review “Eugene Onegin” was published. The author was a young poet Anatolij Fioletov (the real name Natan Shor, 1917–1918), the member of Odessa literary school of XX-th century. During the February revolution the young student of faculty of law in Odessa University was mobilized to the police and became the inspector of Criminal Investigation Departmen and was killed by gangsters. Fioletov was one of the authors of poetical almanacs 1915–1917 «Serebryanye truby», «Avto v oblakah», «Sedmoe pokryvalo», «Chudo v pustyne». The almanacs were published to Petr Storitcin’s money (real name Petr Kogan, 1879–1941?). On the pages of leading theater magazine “Teatr i kino”, (1915–1917, 1919) Petr Storitcin published his poems and acrostics dedicated to the actors of Odessa theaters. The most difficult were the acrostics dedicated to Yadviga Lyarskaya. Storitcin was the author of poetical reviews, he described impressions from plays and gave precise characteristic the actors’ play. He was the author of poems “Poland” and “Tortured Poland” (Yuzhnyj muzykalnyj vestnik, 1916, № 5) and poems dedicated to Henryk Sienkiewicz (Teatr i kino, 1916, № 47).