"I pray by Christ - Leave back from art"

Several thousand people entered the rally in support of Tannhaiser in Novosibirsk

Several thousand people entered the rally in support of Tannhaiser in Novosibirsk

^{April 5. Photo: Dead_pineApples / Instagram}

“Tangaizer” in Novosibirsk wins obscurantism and, it seems, with a devastating score. According to 3 to 5 thousand people, he gathered for various estimates to the rally in support of the disgraced performance and its directors. According to the city hall - 1.5 thousand.

The area of ​​the Opera and Ballet Theater was filled to the brim, and if you compare the photos that captured this event and the “prayer standing”, which took place here a week ago (then the participants, according to the police were a little more than a thousand), it is obvious that the supporters of the freedom of creativity have a huge numerical advantage before the “defenders of the feelings of believers and shrines”. Citizens who played at today's action - of those who saw the performance - are sure that the director Timofei Kulyabin did not encroach on them.

This rally was clearly younger, and the posters and slogans were more artistic: on the faner - “Swan Lake” (ballerinas in long skirts, scarves), “I don’t see, I don’t hear, I don’t hear”, “I can be lagged for art from art”, “Kafka envies us,“ dictatorship ”(instead of“ t ” - Orthodox crosses). Young people covered their faces with black squares (censorship forbids to have a face), some came to the square with rotten bananas, expressing their attitude towards Vladimir Kekhman (in the recent past the “banner king”), appointed by the director of the city opera and ballet theater instead of Boris Madzerich, set aside for Tangacer.

Public activist Stas Zakharkin, opening the action, told the audience: “Right now, in solidarity with us, our fellow citizens are in two more squares-on the Marse Field in St. Petersburg and on Lenin Square in Irkutsk. Right now, the actors of the Moscow Theater.doc, in solidarity with us, read the verses of Russian classics, which are prohibited by the Orthodox Church in due time. ”

Not far from the stage were the leader of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, the former vice-mayor of Novosibirsk and Senator Ivan Starikov. Politicians did not act, losing the microphone to philosophers and creative personalities.

The first spoke to the science fiction writer Gennady Prashkevich. He recalled the Stone Age, the "realistic figures" created by the local artists. “When I look at them, I think, could any Minister of Culture be banned, deciding that they were drawn incorrectly?”

The actor of the Red Torch Theater Vladimir Lemeshonok called the Minister of Medinsky a “taxidermist” who wants to make “controlled dummies” from the artists.

Sergey Smirnov, also a doctor of philosophy quoted Brodsky: “The real occupation of the poet is to write good verses,” everything else is secondary. According to Smirnov, the Novosibirsk authorities "turned out to be spineless, led to the sake of Black Hundreds."

“If we consider ourselves a scientific and cultural center,” Dmitry Verkhovod, Director of the Academy of Education, addressed the audience, “we are obliged to protect our creators.”

The composer and musical director of the Globus Theater Roman Stolyar qualified the actions of the Ministry of Culture as "violation of the constitution and the foundations of state cultural policy, the main principle of which is the statelessness of the state in the creative process."

The protesters turned to the video of the masters of culture and critics known to all of Russia. Andrei Zvyagintsev gave a wise definition of the “debt of the viewer”: “To be free and understand that he has the right to hear what he wants to hear.” “A bird can sing only where there is no suffocation and pure water,” the theater director Kirill Serebryannikov remarked.

The editor -in -chief of the theater magazine Marina Davydova called the story with the “Tannheiser” “Provincial”: “They could destroy the ordinary performance, but they shot outstanding.” One of the creators of Dissernet, Sergei Parkhomenko, recalled that Minister Medinsky, creating his dissertation, acted easier than Timofey Kulyabin with the opera Wagner: he did not change much to change the borrowed texts.

He was thinking for a long time and still ventured to enter the stage, Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev. His performance was brief, but meaningful: “Today is the day when we recall the failed revolution. She happened 2000 years ago, when Jesus drove into Jerusalem on a donkey. Everyone was waiting for him to lead people against Pontius Pilate, but he had his own way. "

The Novosibirsk people skipped Kuraev “Thank you!”, Then they turned to face the opera theater and applauded him.

At the end of the rally, an appeal to the President of the Russian Federation was read out: and to the State Duma. Requirements of rally participants:

^{Photo: Vokirill / Instagram}

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