Gennady Rozhdestvensky
In 1972 Pokrovsky founded the Moscow Chamber Opera Theater with Gennady Rozhdestvensky, and he produced operas such as Igor Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress", Alfred Schnittke's "Life with an Idiot", and in 1974 the first Soviet production of Dmitri Shostakovich's "The Nose" since 1929.