Born in 1934 in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the Institute of Chemical Technology, and worked at a chemical plant, and then to design institute until 1963, dramatically changed his professional focus, becoming a journalist, writer, dramatist. Worked as head of the literary section of the Krasnoyarsk Spectators, editor of the Leningrad television station "Horizon". His works were published in newspapers and magazines, as a theater critic.
Since 1966. works as a drama of musical theater.
Author of more than fifty plays for the music scene (the original libretto, translation, stage version, the scripts, new versions librettnye). Around forty operas and operettas with its original and translated libretto put on theater stages, issued in the light of music publishers, recording companies issued, went on the air as a music TV movies. Among these opera Purcell, J. Haydn, Mozart, D. Cimarosa, Donizetti, Leoncavallo, Jules Massenet, Britten, J. Offenbach operetta, J. Kalman, P. Abraham, D. Gilbert and A. Sullivan. Yu
Dimitrin - Editorial musical trilogy by Sergei Taneyev "Oresteia" with the new text of the libretto
. Among those, . elected playwright to work with modern composers, . - A novel by Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita", . A. Figueiredo play "Fox and the Grapes" (Aesop), . B. Shukshina story, "I believe", . the legend of Robin Hood and Thiele-Ulen Spiegel On the basis of the myth of Orpheus, . he created the libretto of the first stage of Russian rock-opera "Orpheus and Eurydice.,
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Dimitrin - by reviews of musical performances, articles on the libretto and musical theater, essay on memoirs of Shostakovich "My musical history"
. In 1997. they released the book "We can not predict" - reflections on the libretto of Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Taught a course "The dramaturgy of the opera libretto in Saint-Petersburg Academy of Theatrical Art.
. In 1999,
Yuri Dimitrin became the winner of the literary prize "Northern Palmira" in the category "drama".
. Member of the Union of Writers, Union of Theater Workers, the Union of Journalists
. Member of the World Club Petersburgers.
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