The actor died of Kazancheev, the first in Russia who played Jesus in the rock Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber
MOSCOW, March 6 — RIA Novosti. Russian actor Oleg Kazancheev died on 61-m to year of life, reported on the website of the Theater Mossovet in Facebook.
Kazancheev worked at the Taganka Theater, BRIDGE and the Theater Mossovet, played in the movie (the movie “We are from jazz”, “Student doctor” and others).
He was the first in Russia played the role of Jesus in the rock Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Jesus Christ superstar”. The play was staged on the stage of the Mossovet Theatre in 1990.