Anton Ivanovich Gets Angry

Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards it as the ultimate yardstick by which other musical accomplishments must be measured. His daughter, Serafima, is an aspiring singer with great potential, and her father’s anger is aroused when she begins singing in the operetta composed by Aleksei Mukhin, thus abandoning what he considers the higher calling of opera. Mukhin’s work, however, demands a high level of ability from his soloist, and Anton Ivanovich is persuaded of the legitimacy of operetta as a musical genre when, in a dream, he is visited by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who tells him that ‘people need all kinds of music’.

Cast

Lyudmila Tselikovskaya Sima, his daughter Pavel Kadochnikov Alexey Mukhin, composer Nikolai Konovalov Anton Ivanovich Voronov, professor Tatyana Kondrakova Dina, Voronov's eldest daughter Tamara Glebova Natalia Mikhailovna, Voronov's wife

Tamara Pavlotskaya Yadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya

Aleksandr Orlov Yakov Grigorievich Kibrik, comedian of the Musical Comedy Sergei Martinson Kerosinov, composer

Vitaly Kilchevsky Rollandow, tenor

Anatoly Korolkevich Skvoreshnikov, director of musical comedy Vladimir Gardin Johann Sebastian Bach Anatoli Nelidov conservatory vocal professor

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