Masquerade-2013

173 applicants for the "golden mask"

The nominees are announced for the most prestigious domestic theater prize "Golden Mask"

The traditional "Flame of Paris" of the Mikhailovsky Theater bypassed many non -traditional ballet productions

173 nominees - ballerinas and artists, composers and directors ... Almost all theatrical art of the country is in the palm of your hand.

Honest elections

Almost - because the lists of nominees were experts, and they can be mistaken. The “dramatic” expert council was more adequate: in a situation where in one year the monumental works of the classics were released (“cunning and love” and “enemy of the people” of Lev Dodin, “Moscow -Petushki” by Sergey Zhenovach, “Evgeny Onegin” Rimas Tuminas), and bright production of thirty -year -olds (“Snow Queen” of the Roman Feodori in Krasnoyarsk, “Delin of Delhi” by Dmitry Volkostroelov in the St. Petersburg Youth Theater), it was decided to take the performances of both of them. They were added to a handful of work of stable newsmakers-the “ideal husband” of Konstantin Bogomolov in the Art Theater, “Summer Night” Kirill Serebrennikov in the “Gogol Center”, two performances of Yuri Butusov (a good man from Sesan and St. Petersburg “Macbete”), sprinkled with an exotic province and received a province and received it An equal representation of all types of theater at the festival is a direct dream of honest elections. True, because of the “party lists” (the inability to nominate the actor, if not nominated, the wonderful Vasily Bochkarev suffered: his work in the “Selo Stepanchikov” in the Maly Theater remained indistinguishable by experts because of the weak, as they believe, play. (Corresponding clarifications to reporters were given by the chairman of the expert council Elena Kovalskaya.) Only 22 performances of 20 directors; 12 actresses will compete in private nominations (among them Elizabeth Boyarskaya, Ksenia Rappoport, Alexander Ursulyak) and 9 actors (including Danila Kozlovsky, Sergey Makovetsky and Igor Mirkurganov).

Reflecting Venichka (Alexei Vertkov) in the play by Sergey Zhenovach "Moscow - Petushki"

Patriotic preferences

The fate of musical theaters was decided by the expert council with a much more tough and undemocratic approach: its members firmly decided to lead an unreasonable audience into a bright future under the barrel of a pistol. The people should love the fresh works of domestic choreographers (regardless of their quality), and the western masterpieces suffered - bad snop and non -poatriotism. So, in the ballet contest there was no “Onegin” by John Krenko that he was successfully dented by the Bolshoi Theater, and remarkably performed by the Permyaks of Kenneth McMillan’s ballet “Romeo and Juliet” (it should be brought to Moscow only so that Theodor Krentzis showed his colleagues how Prokofiev should be played at all). But suddenly the “sacred spring” Tatyana Baganova arose in Bolshoi, where the choreography of half an hour was swarmed on the ground, crushed by the scale of the scenery. The favorites in the “mask” race, apparently, will be the peppy, proud “Flame of Paris” in the Mikhailovsky Theater (according to rumors, barely breaking through the qualifying filter) and “Mayerling” in the Moscow Musical (this ballet of Macmillan could not “cut” the main event in the capital and the brilliant main role of Sergey Polunin). And experts and ballet fans will receive their high from two thin, smart and complex ballets of the Yekaterinburg artist Vyacheslav Samodurov - Cantus arcticus and “Salieri variations”.

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The people should love the fresh works of domestic choreographers, and not suffered Western masterpieces

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In the opera, the main rates are likely to be on the Left -ath (summer world premiere of the opera Rodion Shchedrin in the Mariinsky Theater), Italian in Algeria in the Musical Theater (the glorious work of Evgenia Pisarev, behind the remote control of Felix Korobov) and Evgeny Onegin in the Mikhailovsky Theater (radical production of Andriy Zholdaka; conductor Mikhail Tatarnikov was not nominated). The competition will stretch from January 25 (when Mariinka will arrive in Moscow until April 17.

Photos: Alexey Danichev/RIA Novosti, Valery Sharifulin/ITAR-TASS