Directors of the theater, where they put the Tannheiser, fired after a rally with Valuev

The director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, where they staged a scandalous performance "Tangaer", was fired by order of the Minister of Culture of Medinsky. The resignation of Boris Mezdrich was informed by Interfax by the director of the Mikhailovsky Theater of St. Petersburg Vladimir Kekhman, who will now fulfill his duties.

"From tomorrow, I begin to fulfill the duties of the director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. I am now in Novosibirsk ... I will combine two positions - the director of Mikhailovsky and the director of the Novosibirsk Theaters," Kekhman said. Kehman did not report whether the theater will continue to work with the director of the play by Timofei Kulyabin. He also refused to talk about whether they would continue to give Tangaer on stage.

However, earlier Kekhman said that the Tangaer insults him as a Jew and “as an Orthodox”. “The performance needs to be removed from the repertoire,” the website of the Ministry of Culture quotes his words.

The performance was staged by the young director Timofei Kulyabin. The action in the play is transferred today. In the Kulyabin version, Jesus Christ became the hero of an erotic film, which is shot by the knight Tangaizer.

This week, the United Russia faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region decided to contact the Minister of Medinsky with a request to resign the director of the theater.

Earlier, the Ministry of Culture called on the creators of the setting to apologize to the audience and partially change it. The department noted that they do not consider censorship permissible, but they have the right to "take in extreme cases administrative and financial measures in relation to state institutions of culture, including depriving financing of such productions."

After that, the theater went towards the Russian Orthodox Church and removed the poster that offended believers from the stage.

Boris Mezdrich was born in 1948. In 1972-1980, he was a researcher at the Far Eastern Geological Institute of the DVNC Academy of Sciences of the USSR (Vladivostok).

Since 1980 - deputy director of the Primorsky Regional Drama Theater named after M. Gorky (Vladivostok). Since 1987 - Director of the Primorsky Regional Theater of the Young Spectator (Vladivostok). In 1989-2001 - Director of the Omsk Academic Drama Theater.

In 2001-2008 - Director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater.

In September 2008, Boris Mezdrich was transferred to the post of director of the Russian State Academic Drama Theater. F. Volkova (Yaroslavl).

In 2011, he was again appointed director of the Novosibirsk State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.

Boris Mezdrich - Honored Worker of Culture of Russia (1999). He was awarded the International Theater Prize named after K.S. Stanislavsky (2009), laureate of the Person of the Year (2014).

Valuev against Tangaiser

On Sunday in Novosibirsk, another rally was held against the production of the opera. According to Flashsiberia , about a thousand people took part in it, including State Duma deputy Nikolai Valuev.

The rally began with a prayer standing, led by the abbot of the cathedral in the name of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, Archpriest Alexander Novopashin.

Valuev said that "we should not allow such (production)."

Novopashin called for “saying decisive“ no “to those who are trying to drive us into the so -called cultural ghetto:“ Here, sit in your fence - mosque, fence of the Orthodox Church - we will fill the rest with our views, worldviews. ”

Medinsky: The actions of state institutions of culture should not crack society

According to the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky, the actions carried out by cultural institutions at the state expense should not become a reason for mass unrest and trial. So the minister commented on the scandal around the production of Wagner’s opera Tangeyer in Novosibirsk.

“The actions carried out at the state expense of these institutions should not contribute to society and should not become a reason, the reason for some mass unrest, performances, litigation, rallies,” the minister quotes the Minister of the Sunday program Vesti weeks .

In turn, the now former director of the Novosibirsk Opera House Boris Mezdrich said that the creators of the production did not want to offend the feelings of believers.

"We absolutely did not set ourselves the task of insulting the feelings of believers. It’s not a dream that it was completely in a terrible dream. Everything has been done in a completely different way, four performances have already passed today, more than 7 thousand people looked, applied the apparatus each time," he told the Vesti of the Week.