The bright light of talent (on the 110<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the outstanding Tatar singer, director and teacher Niyaz Dautov)

Abstract

Niyaz Kuramshevich Dautov (1913–1986) was a singer (lyric tenor), opera director, teacher, People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1957) and professor (1986). He was born in Kazan in 1913. In 1938, he graduated from the Tatar Opera Studio at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1939– 1943, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1953, he graduated from the Ural Conservatory. In 1943–1956 and 1960–1964, heworked as a soloist and director of the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1965–1975, Dautov N. was the chief director of the Chelyabinsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1956–1960 and from 1975 to 1986, he worked as a soloist and the chief director of the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater. In 1975–1986, he became the head of the Department of Opera Training at the Kazan Conservatory (since 1982 he was a professor).Niyaz Dautov was an Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1954), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1957), Laureate of the TASSR G. Tukay State Prize (1958).