Yuri Sherling is a talented person whose name is known to everyone who is interested in the metropolitan theater life. Choreographer, choreographer, director - in whatever capacity he did not have time to declare himself by the age of 73. What is the story of a celebrity?
Yuri Sherling: family
Honored Artist of the RSFSR was born in August 1944. Moscow is the city in which Yuri Sherling was born and spent his whole life. He grew up in an incomplete family. The boy was raised by the mother of Alexander Sherling, a pianist and accompanist.
Communicate with his father Boris Tevelev, a radio engineer by profession, Yuri began only when he came of age. Before that, they had never met.
First successes
When Yuri was four years old, he began to seriously engage in music. His mother sent him to the Music School at the Gnesinsky College. Some time later, the child had another hobby - dancing.
Yuri Sherling successfully graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School. In 1963, he began to collaborate with the Igor Moiseyev Folk Dance Ensemble. Two years later, the young man joined the ballet troupe of the theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. In parallel, Sherling studied at the Higher Director's Courses in the workshop of A. Goncharov.
The beginning of the director's career
In 1971, Yuri Sherling first declared himself as a talented director. Together with his former teacher Goncharov, he staged the musical The Man from La Mancha. For 14 years, this production was on the stage of the theater. V. Mayakovsky.
Then Yuri Borisovich made the film “Only One Movement”, staged two television ballets - “In the Shop of an Old Musician” and “Winter Rainbow”. This was followed by work on the musical Skinny Prize, the plot of which was borrowed from the work of the same name by the Cuban writer Quintero.
Finest hour
For some time, director Yuri Sherling was known only in narrow circles. The establishment of the Jewish Jewish Musical Theater helped him to establish himself throughout the country in 1977. Yuri Borisovich took over the functions of artistic director, and also from time to time acted as a composer and actor.
The most famous brainchild of KEMT was the musical Black Bridle for the White Mare, presented to the audience in 1978, for which music was written by Sherling himself. Also worth noting are the productions of “Let's All Together, ” “I come from childhood, ” “Tevye from Anatevka, ” “Golden Wedding, ” and “The Last Role.” They all had great success with the audience, received warm reviews from critics.
"School of musical art"
In 1985, Sherling Yuri Borisovich left KEMT. The reasons that prompted him to such a decision remained a mystery. The director staged several plays abroad, for example, “The Ghetto”, the plot of which was borrowed from the work of the Israeli playwright Sobol.
In 1989, Scherling founded a new theater called the School of Musical Development. The opera-mystery “Have Mercy”, the folk opera “When the Sand Rises”, the musical show “School of Musical Art” - the brainchild of Yuri Borisovich, which were staged on the stage of this theater.
Sherling and Vlasova
What is known about the personal life of Yuri Sherling? The first wife of the famous director was Eleanor Vlasova. With this ballerina he met through work in the theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Eleanor was the wife of the famous opera singer Arkady Talmazov.
The rapprochement between Vlasova and Sherling occurred during a joint work on the production of Corsair. Eleanor was older than Yuri, but this did not stop them from getting carried away with each other. As a result, the ballerina left her husband for the director. It was because of this that Scherling was fired from the theater.
Soon after the wedding, conflicts began. Vlasova did not want to have children, as this could negatively affect her career. Sherling dreamed of having heirs. Quarrels occurred in the newlyweds for other reasons. They moved away from each other, another man appeared in Eleanor. Divorce was a natural outcome, but they parted as friends.
Marriages and divorces
What else is known about the personal life of Yuri Sherling? His second wife was actress Tamara Akulova. A friend named Larisa introduced him to this girl. Tamara asked Sherling to help her prepare for admission to the theater university. Soon after, they began dating. Officially, Tamara and Yuri formalized their relationship only after the birth of their daughter Anna.
After the wedding, Tamara entered VGIK, focused on her career. She managed to declare herself as a talented actress. “In Search of Captain Grant”, “Sunday Papa”, “Bride”, “Lion's Share”, “Katya: Military History” - films and series in which she can be seen. The marriage of Akulova and Sherling gradually became obsolete, even the presence of a daughter did not save the family.
The director’s third wife was Maritt Christensen, a Norwegian TV correspondent. This woman supported Yuri Borisovich when he began a black streak in life. With Maritt, they were more likely friends and partners than loving spouses, so the marriage soon broke up.
Love family
Sherling managed to find happiness only in the fourth marriage. With the singer and pianist Olesya, the director has lived for more than thirty years. The fourth wife gave him three children - daughters Alexandra and Mariamne and son Matthew.
Olesya became for Yuri Borisovich a real friend of life, who supported him in the most hopeless situations.
