Vladislav Pazi

Honoured Artist of Russia.
Honoured Artist of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan.

Graduated from the drama theatre directing faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinema in 1972.
Worked as a stage director in Russian theatres in Petrozavodsk, Omsk, Vladimir and Murmansk. For eight seasons he was Artistic and General Director of the Russian Drama Theatre in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan).
In 1993 he became Stage Director of the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre.
He staged La Dame aux caméllias, Lovers' Suicide on the Island of Skynet and The Gambler at the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre and Teibele and Her Demon at the Theatre on Liteiny.
In 1996 he was appointed General Director and subsequently Artistic Director of the Lensoviet Theatre.
At the Mariinsky Theatre he staged Prokofiev's opera Betrothal in a Monastery. He also staged this work at the San Francisco Opera.
Vladislav Pazi died suddenly on 13 May 2006 at the age of 62.