Vysotsky as Hamlet When he took on Hamlet, Vysotsky was already well known as a troubadour of spiritual freedom - he was 'the living soul and conscience of his time' (Gershkovich, 129), much loved throughout the Soviet Union because his songs spoke truth in the oblique ways typical of heavily censored societies. A slight, pleasantly mordant man who looks rather like the young Brecht, Mr. Vysotsky calls himself an actor and a poet who sings essentially for friends, and to broaden the resonance of his verse. The study focuses on the re-enactment of the acting interpretation of the role of Hamlet based on the eponymous tragedy of William Shakespeare, as rendered by Vladimir Semyonovich Vysotsky (1938 – 1940), Russian actor, poet, and performer of his own songs, staged by the Moscow Theatre of Drama and Comedy on Taganka Square. The role is portrayed as what the history of the theatre reckons to be an extraordinary inherent linkage between the actor-poet and his role to which he was. Vladimir Vysotskiy, Actor: Plokhoy khoroshiy chelovek. Vladimir Vysotsky was an iconic Russian actor, singer-songwriter and public figure, who wrote over 700 songs and gave over 2000 public and private performances as an anti-establishment singer of the 60s.

Vysotsky Hamlet
Vladimir Vysotsky Hamlet

(biography, photo, video) Vladimir Vysotsky

Name: Vladimir Vysotsky ( Vladimir Vysotsky )

Date of birth: 25 January 1938

Age: 42 years

Date of death: 25 Jul 1980

Place of birth: Moscow

Height: 170

Activities: Actor, singer, poet

Marital status: was married Marina Vlady

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Vladimir Vysotsky became a legend of Soviet music, theatre and cinema. Vysotsky’s songs have become indisputable classics and eternal hits. His work is very difficult to categorize, as it goes beyond and expands them. Usually, Vysotsky considered to bard music, but its manner of execution and themes of the texts are completely different from those in the Amateur environment. He also disowned the movement.

Childhood and adolescence

Vladimir Vysotsky was born on 25 January 1938 in Moscow in a huge communal apartment. The father of the poet, bard and actor, a native of Kiev, WWII veteran, and my mother is a interpreter. When the war started, Vladimir Semenovich was only four years old, so my mom decided to leave with his son in Orenburg oblast. Vysotsky lived there about two years, and after the evacuation of the family returned back to Moscow.

Two years after the end of the war her parents separated. At the age of nine Vladimir Vysotsky was in post-war occupied Germany, so his childhood can not be called a rainbow, in contrast to peers who are in the capital of the USSR. Being in Germany, Vladimir took lessons of piano. His mother has remarried, with a stepfather Vysotsky was in a difficult relationship. Father married the second time, but with her stepmother have a relationship better.

Back in Moscow, a young poet in 1949, he settled with his father and his wife. It was there they got acquainted with Vysotsky’s music, but rather with the fun youth of 50 years, which led to him singing. The first chords of Vladimir Semenovich is a explanation rogue romance, a popular destination for those whose childhood was spent during the war. In the evenings, the company were going to play the guitar songs of the Kolyma, Vorkuta and Murka. Then Vladimir Vysotsky began a serious affair with the guitar.

At the age of 10 years old Vladimir Semenovich began to attend drama club. Then he hadn’t quite realized that his future belongs to theatre. After school, Vysotsky entered the Moscow building, but after six months realized that was not there» and left school.

According to legend, Vladimir did it suddenly and quite eccentric. The entire new year’s eve, the future actor along with a classmate spent preparing for the session, making drawings, without which it was impossible to gain admission to the exams. After several hours of hard work the drawings were ready – and then Vysotsky grabbed from a table a jar of ink and poured it on his letter. Vladimir realized that he could no longer be in this school and the other half decided to spend on preparing for the new arrival.

After this charismatic young man entered the Moscow art theatre and three years later debuted on the theatrical stage in the educational performance of «Crime and punishment». Then Vladimir Semenovich has played a small role in the film «Peers».

Theatre

After graduating from the school-Studio of MKHAT Vysotsky arrived to work in the theater. Pushkin. Soon the actor went to the Theatre of miniatures, playing there in small episodes and the extras that great of enthusiasm has not caused. There was also an unsuccessful attempt to break into the theater «Contemporary».

In the end, like Vladimir Semenovich came to the Taganka Theatre, where until his death he worked. Here Vysotsky was trying on the imagery of hamlet, Pugachev, Svidrigailov and Galileo. Along with the Taganka Theatre actor, toured, he almost traveled the world, performing in France, Poland, Germany, Hungary and Bulgaria, few times was able to go to the U.S., visited Mexico, Canada and Tahiti.

Music

Vysotsky Hamlet

The lyrics of Vladimir Vysotsky wrote himself. The first verses of Vysotsky wrote in high school. The poem «My vow» a young poet dedicated to Stalin, and in a lyrical manner, mourned the death of the leader. The first song Vysotsky himself calls «Tattoo», which was performed in Leningrad in 1961 year. This song began in the poet’s cycle of the yards, «cool» works.

Despite statements by the artist, there is another story, dated a year earlier. This song is called «49 days». It is written about the heroism of Russian soldiers who drifted across the Pacific ocean. The poems were dedicated to a noble theme, but it didn’t Vysotsky love for his creation. He called this song as a guide for the hacks and spoke about it very negatively. According to the author, you can compose a lot of poems simply by opening the category of current events in any newspaper and rewriting names. For a poet, it was important to pass the work through, so «ticky-tacky» song «49 days» he did not recognize.

Author’s inspiration drew from Vladimir Vysotsky, Bulat Okudzhava, to the last day of his life and considered his mentor. «Song of Truth and Lies» was dedicated to him. To write music and lyrics, the actor began in the 60-ies. First the audience did not appreciate the «backyard» motives of the musician and the Vysotsky they are not particularly liked. As a musician, Vladimir Semenovich has matured a little later. In 1965, the song «Submarine» was a sign that teenagers early poet ended. Later, the actor wrote songs for films, which starred himself and took an active part in their creation.

In 1968, the year he published his first record with songs of Vladimir Vysotsky. It was a collection of his songs for the film «Vertikal», including the first heard in this film, and later became one of the trademarks of a musician «a Song about a friend».

In 1975-m to year for the first time, and, as it turned out, the last time in an official Soviet collection was published the poem of Vladimir Vysotsky. Lucky poem «From the road». In the same year, the musician recorded a new album «St. Vysotsky. Self-portrait». It was a great collection, with the author’s asides before each song and the accompaniment of three guitars. But the record turned out only partially and only after the author’s death.

In 1978, the year Vladimir Vysotsky has received the highest category of singer soloist of the pop. It showed that the Ministry of culture recognizes the creativity of Vysotsky and ready to recognize him as a professional performer.

In 1979, toured, he has performed in new York and Toronto. Vysotsky’s songs so impressed the audience that in law-abiding America in the same year without the permission of the singer came out of a pirate recording of the concert mixed up with the order of the songs.

In the same year, Vladimir Vysotsky took part in creating the famous samostatneho of the almanac «Metropol». It was the uncensored edition, a collection of texts of those authors who could not publish officially. A total of 12 instances, but one of them who was able to illegally export to the US, where the anthology was officially published.

Vysotsky continued to tour. In France he met a Gypsy musician in a duet which sang many songs and ballads. The singers had planned to record the album, but Vladimir did not have time to do so.

In the last years of his life the artist didn’t stop to give concerts. He played in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad and Moscow, continued to play hamlet at the Taganka Theater.