Yevgeny Kolobov

Upon graduation from the song-school under the Glinka Chapel in Leningrad and the Urals State Conservatory,[1] he started his career as a principal conductor in 1974 of the Ekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre (1974–1981).

In 1987, Evgeny Kolobov was appointed musical director of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre in Moscow.

[2] One of Kolobov's lifelong ambitions was to revive undeservedly forgotten music and to produce new, modern interpretations of well-known compositions.

Yevgeny Kolobov was the first opera conductor in Russia to stage Verdi's La forza del destino, Bellini's Il Pirata, Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Catalani's La Wally, Verdi's I Due Foscari, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in the composer's original version and Thomas's Hamlet.

[3][4] Yevgeny Kolobov was honored with the prestige national prizes Triumph and Golden Mask, a special award of the Moscow Government for achievements in the arts and the Order Creator of St. Petersburg.