Meyerhold, Vsevolod ( b Pensa, 9 Feb. 1874; d Moscow, 2 Feb. 1940). Russian producer. His work in opera began at the St Petersburg M in 1909 with enterprising ... of Spades (1935). He worked closely with Shostakovich and with Prokofiev (whose Love of the Three Oranges took an example from Meyerhold's view of ...
