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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky(1931-2018)

  • Music Department
  • Actor
  • Soundtrack
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky was born on 4 May 1931 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He was an actor, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) and The Bolshoi Ballet (1957). He was married to Viktoria Postnikova and Nina Timofeyeva. He died on 16 June 2018 in Moscow, Russia.
BornMay 4, 1931
DiedJune 16, 2018(87)
BornMay 4, 1931
DiedJune 16, 2018(87)
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  • Nominated for 1 Oscar
    • 1 nomination total

Known for

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
2001: A Space Odyssey
8.3
  • Soundtrack("Gayane Ballet Suite -- Gayane's Adagio" (1941-2))
  • 1968
Carmen Maura and Julieta Serrano in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
7.5
  • Soundtrack(as G. Rozhdestvensky)
  • 1988
Paul Czinner, Raisa Struchkova, Galina Ulanova, and Nikolai Fedeychev in The Bolshoi Ballet (1957)
The Bolshoi Ballet
6.8
  • Music Department
  • 1957
Romeo & Juliet (1955)
Romeo & Juliet
7.4
  • Music Department(as G. Rozhdestvensky)
  • 1955

Credits

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Music Department

  • Balet Shchelkunchik (2024)
    Balet Shchelkunchik
    • stage music director
    • 2024
  • La dame de pique (2007)
    La dame de pique
    TV Movie
    • conductor
    • 2007
  • The Second Circle (1990)
    The Second Circle
    7.1
    • conductor (as G. Rozhdestvensky)
    • 1990
  • Mariya (1988)
    Mariya
    7.0
    TV Movie
    • conductor (as G. Rozhdestvensky)
    • 1988
  • Föreställning på väg! (1988)
    Föreställning på väg!
    TV Movie
    • conductor
    • 1988
  • The Nutcracker (1985)
    The Nutcracker
    8.0
    TV Movie
    • conductor (as Gennady Roshdestvensky)
    • 1985
  • Ledyanaya vnuchka (1980)
    Ledyanaya vnuchka
    6.2
    • conductor
    • 1980
  • Eduard Akimov and Alexander Lomonosov in Nos (1979)
    Nos
    TV Movie
    • conductor
    • 1979
  • Maya Plisetskaya in Carmen Syuta (1970)
    Carmen Syuta
    8.1
    TV Movie
    • conductor (as G. Rozhdestvensky)
    • 1970
  • Bolshoi Ballet '67 (1965)
    Bolshoi Ballet '67
    6.7
    • conductor (as G. Rozhdestvensky)
    • 1965
  • Semyon Morozov and Boris Zelensky in Na grafskikh razvalinakh (1958)
    Na grafskikh razvalinakh
    6.8
    • conductor (as G. Rozhdestvenskiy)
    • 1958
  • Paul Czinner, Raisa Struchkova, Galina Ulanova, and Nikolai Fedeychev in The Bolshoi Ballet (1957)
    The Bolshoi Ballet
    6.8
    • conductor
    • 1957
  • Romeo & Juliet (1955)
    Romeo & Juliet
    7.4
    • conductor (as G. Rozhdestvensky)
    • 1955

Actor

  • Guennadi Rojdestvensky, profession chef d'orchestre (2003)
    Guennadi Rojdestvensky, profession chef d'orchestre
    TV Movie
    • 2003
  • Gennadi Rozhdestvensky in Guennadi Rojdestvensky: Les Âmes mortes (2002)
    Guennadi Rojdestvensky: Les Âmes mortes
    TV Movie
    • 2002
  • Guennadi Rojdestvensky dirige Roméo et Juliette de Tchaïkovsky
    TV Movie
    • 1991

Soundtrack

  • Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Natalia Dyer, Caleb McLaughlin, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Charlie Heaton, Noah Schnapp, and Gaten Matarazzo in Stranger Things (2016)
    Stranger Things
    8.6
    TV Series
    • performer: "The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14, Act II: No. 14c, Var. II. Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" (uncredited)
    • 2025
  • American Experience (1988)
    American Experience
    8.6
    TV Series
    • performer: "Symphony No 2 In E Minor Op27"
    • 2023
  • Standby (2020)
    Standby
    5.8
    Video
    • performer: "Etudes"
    • 2020
  • Elena's Destiny, a Russian Saga (2007)
    Elena's Destiny, a Russian Saga
    6.9
    TV Mini Series
    • performer: "L'Internationale"
    • 2008
  • In Memory of Me (2007)
    In Memory of Me
    6.3
    • performer: "Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 - Andantino semplice, prestissimo"
    • 2007
  • Le violon de Rothschild (1996)
    Le violon de Rothschild
    6.9
    • performer: "Lullaby", from the suite From Jewish Folk Poetry
    • 1996
  • Inside Story (1974)
    Inside Story
    6.8
    TV Series
    • performer: "The Protecting Veil: I. The Protecting Veil"
    • 1996
  • Whispering Pages (1994)
    Whispering Pages
    6.9
    • performer: "Music and Paintings"
    • 1994
  • Carmen Maura and Julieta Serrano in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
    Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
    7.5
    • performer: "Capricho Español", "Scherezade" (as G. Rozhdestvensky)
    • 1988
  • El Bashayer (1987)
    El Bashayer
    7.6
    TV Series
    • performer: "Waltz Suite & Op. 110 & Happiness (Cinderella)"
    • 1987
  • Escalier C (1985)
    Escalier C
    6.3
    • performer: "Simphonie no 9"
    • 1985
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    8.3
    • Soundtrack ("Gayane Ballet Suite -- Gayane's Adagio" (1941-2))
    • 1968

Personal details

  • Official site
    • Bolshoi
  • Alternative names
    • Gennadi Roschdestwenski
  • Born
    • May 4, 1931
    • Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
  • Died
    • June 16, 2018
    • Moscow, Russia(long illness)
  • Spouses
      Viktoria Postnikova1969 - June 16, 2018 (his death, 1 child)
  • Other works
    He conducted the Covent Garden Orchestra for the ballet, "The Fountain of Bakchisarai," in a Bolshoi Theatre production at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England with Marina Kondratieva, Boris Kokhlov, Alexander Lapauri, Velta Viltsin, Vladimir Levashev, and Alexander Radunsky in the cast. Professor R. Zakharov was choreographer.
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Article

Did you know

  • Trivia
    Conductor of the Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre from 1951 to 1970.
  • Quotes
    The position of a conductor who has a permanent appointment is that of the manager of a travel agency.

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