"Queen of Indians" won the Casta Diva Award

Casta Diva winners are announced for 2013. In the nomination "Event of the Year", the opera "Queen of the Indians" of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater in the production of Theodore Kurentzis and Peter Sellars won.

The performance with Teatro Real (Madrid) and the English National Opera (London) was also working on the performance were also worked by the Growl -up artist, costume designer Dunya Ramikov and choreographer Christopher Williams.

The jury of the award - Julia Bederova, Ekaterina Biryukova , Mikhail Muginstein (chairman), Petr Pospelov, Nora Potapova and Elena Tretyakova - so commented on his choice: " " Queen of the Indians " - an unusual opera landscape, in which Persella's rarity found an acute modern taste."

The “Event of the Year” nomination also drew the attention of Bellini's “Somnambul” (Bolshoi Theater, for the first time since 1892), “Tristan and Isolde” by Wagner (New Opera, for the first time in Moscow), “Left” Shchedrin (world premiere for the opening of Mariinka-2), “Three Pinto” Weber-Malera (Rarity in the Chamber Music Theater named after Pokrovsky), Tangyer ” Wagner (Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, almost 100 years later in Moscow).

Among the singers of the jury, Igor Golovatenko shallowed in the parties of Count Di Luna (Trubadur, New Opera) and the Marquis of Di Pose (Don Carlos, the Bolshoi Theater).

Casta Diva opera Award was established in 1996, this is the only special prize in the field of Russian opera art. The Casta Diva jury includes reputable opera critics.

The founders of the award: the Humanitarian University and the Center for the Musical Theater (Yekaterinburg), the Humanitarian and Political Science Center Strategy (Moscow), the publications “Culture”, “Screen and Scene”, “Literary Newspaper”, “Musical Academy”, “Petersburg Theater Journal”, Mariinsky Theater, Radio Orpheus.