Anatole Fistoulari

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Anatole Fistoulari (20 August 1907 – 21 August 1995) was a Ukrainian conductor, who became a British citizen. A child prodigy, he later conducted around Europe and America, and left a significant discography. Biography: Fistoulari was born into a musical family in Kyiv. His principal teacher was his father, the conductor Gregor Fistoulari, who had studied with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anton Rubinstein. Anatole conducted for the first time, at the age of seven, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony, the Pathetique, at a charity concert at the Opera House in Kyiv. He then conducted a concert of the Imperial Court Orchestra in Odessa from memory. At the age of 13 he went to Bucharest, where he was invited to conduct Samson and Delilah at the Opera House. Next he went to Germany and in Berlin undertook engagements with the State Opera Orchestra and the Blüthner Orchestra, as well concerts in Hamburg and Dresden, and received advice from Arthur Nikisch. In 1933, Fistoulari was chosen to conduct several seasons of the Grand Opera Russe at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris with the Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin, having already conducted over one hundred performances by a small Russian company which had toured France, Belgium, Spain and Italy. He also led The Barber of Seville at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées with a cast from La Scala including Stabile, Lomanto, Chaliapin and Vichnevska. In 1933, he began his collaboration with Léonide Massine's Ballets Russes in Paris, tourin

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