Ariy Pazovsky

Ariy Moiseyevich Pazovsky (Russian: Арий Моисеевич Пазовский; 2 February [O.S.

He was a junior conductor at the Bolshoi from 1923 to 1928, and then director 1943–1948.

[2] As a conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, he is credited with having returned parts of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov which had been censored in the Russian Empire.

[3] On his arrival in 1943 Pazovsky was required to enliven the repertoire with some 19th-century operas, and thus had to postpone Prokofiev's War and Peace, but made this good with putting on Prokofiev's Cinderella.

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