"Golden Mask" presents many surprises

In Moscow on Monday with the State Prize "Golden Mask". The result of this country's largest theater of the show came as a surprise to many: the best performance - children, the best opera and ballet - not at the Bolshoi or Mariinsky Theatre, and Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Singer of the Year was Albina Shagimuratova the Tatar Theater of Opera and Ballet. Large theater full of stalls for Raika are the ceremony brilliant soloists from the Mariinsky - prima ballerina Ulyana Lopatkina and bass Ildar Abdrazakov. The main Russian theater festival ended for three weeks, the public and the jury saw 50 best Russian performances. This year was the professional theater and training. George Taratorkin fell, the festival's president, said that he was pleased with the main theater is weird. Grand Theatre claim 24 "Golden Mask". Hope opera "The Golden Cockerel" by Rimsky Korsakov wondered Kirill Silversmiths and the ballet "Lost Illusions". Grand main competitor - Mariinsky - carried forward to the competition and classical and avant-garde stuff, "Aida", "Dead Souls", the ballet "Park" directed by Preljocaj. As a result, the Mariinsky has the "Golden Mask" was given for the work of set designer Zinovy Margolin, he designed the opera "Dead Souls". Big wins in three categories. Received the "Golden Mask" Leonid Desyatnikov, he ordered a large music for the ballet "Lost Illusions". Aria played by Ildar Abdrazakov and shiny Strauss waltz Daniil Trifonov, performed not distract from the main story. Real winner - Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. They have the best ballet "For you to accept death," directed by Nacho Duato. Best Opera - And known the same performance for the best work of the conductor "The Tales of Hoffmann.". Andrey Moguchy "Happiness" at the Alexandrine Theatre of St. Petersburg, was the best. "The more expensive the viewer than the children, I do not do" - said director Andrew Mighty. Some nominations young soloist went Champion - Denis Savin was the best ballet soloist, before the famous Igor Zelensky. Best actress confessed Zamaraeva Svetlana from Ekaterinburg, was the best actor Yevgeny Mironov. "Golden Mask" he received for the role of Caligula in the Theatre of Nations, which is headed. Rounding out the award in the nomination "For outstanding contribution to the performing arts." "Golden Mask" gave Peter Fomenko, St. Petersburg Eduard Kochergin scenography and Kaluga actor Michael Pakhomenko. BBC News