Saturday, September 28, 2013

In 17 categories "Golden Mask" at the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatre

Russian National Theatre Award "Golden Mask" for the 18th Time is in Moscow today. The award ceremony will be held at the historic Bolshoi Theatre. This time, the nominated performances of the Bolshoi Theater for the "Golden Mask" at once in 17 nominations. The same number of positions in the creative competition and took the traditional main competitors Bolshoi - Mariinsky Theatre. Thus, from the repertoire of the Bolshoi Experts chose the opera "The Golden Cockerel" in the extraordinary setting Kirill Serebrennikov and ballets assigned absolute innovation: a one-act opus called "Chroma", composed by the famous avant-garde choreographer Wayne McGregor, "Cinque" Mauro Bigonzetti "Herman Shmerman" choreographed by William Forsythe and "Lost Illusions," to music by Leonid Desyatnikov by Alexei Ratmansky. How to fight for the Mariinsky Theatre, here for the "Golden Mask" are just three of the opera "Aida" by Giuseppe Verdi's "Dead Souls" by Rodion Shchedrin and "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Benjamin Britten, and just a ballet - "Park" the music Mozart Choreography Angelin Preljocaj, where the female lead takes Mariinsky prima ballerina Diana Vishneva. Among other metropolitan theaters under the contenders for the "Golden Mask" So, for example, the Moscow Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Offenbach's opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", which according to critics, play brilliantly a great singer Hibla Gerzmava. St. Petersburg groups remarkable Mikhailovsky Theatre, named for the award mainly for the production of the new artistic director of the ballet - the famous Spaniard Nacho Duato. On the "Golden Mask" also opera and ballet Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk, Perm, Astrakhan, ITAR-TASS reports claimed. To this list we have another operettas and musicals, which will also compete for awards in the categories. And, of course, a long list of theater productions. Finally, the "Golden Mask" for the best work of the season in all the performing arts, including even excellent puppet theater. A separate line category "experiment." So far, only selected the winner of the most venerable nomination is known. "Golden Mask" - "for outstanding contributions to the development of theater art" - Award with director Peter Fomenko, chief designer of the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Drama Theatre BDT and actor Eduardo Kochergin Kaluga Drama Theater Mikhail Pakhomenko. Special prize "For the support of the Russian theater art" be the governor of Tomsk region Victor Kress. And the award for the "best foreign performance shown in Russia 2011," get "/ A / Pollonia" - honestly tell stories about the Holocaust, as on the stage of the famous Polish director Krzysztof Warlikowski. The award was presented Nina Chusova, registering historical stage of the Bolshoi Theatre Artists Zinovy Margolin committed. Be the leading soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre prima ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina and singer Ildar Abdrazakov.

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