Rosamund Bartlett has written widely on Russian music, literature and cultural history, and is one of the UK’s leading Chekhov specialists. She is the author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life, which was the Moscow Times Biography of the Year in 2004. Editor and co-translator of Chekhov: A Life in Letters, she has also translated two anthologies of Chekhov’s short stories: About Love and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and The Exclamation Mark.
Her approach to Chekhov has been informed by her work as a musicologist, specifically the research for her first monograph, Wagner and Russia, and the insights provided by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich’s readings of his works. A Director of the Anton Chekhov Foundation, set up to preserve the house in Yalta where Chekhov wrote The Cherry Orchard, she is currently collaborating with Michael Pennington to organise a week of fund-raising readings in 2010 at the Hampstead Theatre to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Chekhov’s birth.
Rose Theatre foyer
10th November at 7.00 p.m.
