Anton Ivanovich Voronov is a highly respected professor at the Moscow Conservatoire, who places the music of Bach above everything else and regards it as the ultimate yardstick by which other musical accomplishments must be measured. His daughter, Serafima, is an aspiring singer with great potential, and her father’s anger is aroused when she begins singing in the operetta composed by Aleksei Mukhin, thus abandoning what he considers the higher calling of opera. Mukhin’s work, however, demands a high level of ability from his soloist, and Anton Ivanovich is persuaded of the legitimacy of operetta as a musical genre when, in a dream, he is visited by Johann Sebastian Bach himself, who tells him that ‘people need all kinds of music’.
Aleksandr Ivanovsky
Director
Lyudmila Tselikovskaya
Sima, his daughter
Pavel Kadochnikov
Alexey Mukhin, composer
Nikolai Konovalov
Anton Ivanovich Voronov, professor
Tatyana Kondrakova
Dina, Voronov's eldest daughter
Tamara Glebova
Natalia Mikhailovna, Voronov's wife
Tamara Pavlotskaya
Yadviga Valentinovna Kholodetskaya
Aleksandr Orlov
Yakov Grigorievich Kibrik, comedian of the Musical Comedy
Sergei Martinson
Kerosinov, composer
Vitaly Kilchevsky
Rollandow, tenor
Anatoly Korolkevich
Skvoreshnikov, director of musical comedy
Vladimir Gardin
Johann Sebastian Bach
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