Piradov, Volodymyr

Piradov, Volodymyr [Пірадов, Володимир], b 14 February 1892 in Warsaw, d 20 April 1954 in Kyiv. Opera conductor. He graduated from the Tbilisi music school and from 1914 worked in the opera theaters of Tbilisi, Baku, Minsk, and Moscow. In 1936–41 he was a conductor at the Kyiv Theater of Opera and Ballet, and in 1950–4 its main conductor. In 1944–7 he conducted the Kharkiv Theater of Opera and Ballet. From 1950 he also served as a professor at the Kyiv Conservatory. The Kostiantyn Dankevych opera Bohdan Khmel'nyts'kyi was his last work, mounted by the Kyiv Opera in 1953.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]