The opera "The Barber of Seville" at the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR

USSR. Moscow. July 9, 1965. Singers Alexei Dmitrievich Maslennikov (Count Almaviva), Yuri Iosifovich Galkin (Officer) (from left to right in the foreground), Evgenia Fedorovna Smolenskaya (Berta), Galina Vasilievna Oleynichenko (Rosina), Mark Stepanovich Reshetin (Basilio) and Georgy Gennadievich Pankov (Bartolo) (from left to right in the background) in the premiere of the opera The Barber of Seville by the Italian composer Gioachino Rossini, directed by Nikita Nikiforov on the stage of the State Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Evgeny Kassin/TASS