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On the updated Bolshoi Nikitskaya among bicycle paths and elegant cafes, a new door has recently started, which completely does not portend a whole labyrinth of noble enfilad and modern clocks gradually unfolding behind it. This labyrinth ends with an impressive space with a spaced amphitheater dug below the street with a spacious orchestral pit, a well -equipped scene, in the depths of which the windows are left in the Kalashny Lane, the most fabulous in the world of the royal lodge made of the former terem porch, and glittering over all this star dome, which was completely completely blocked. Zlamic courtyard. Outside, it is simply not clear where it is all there, in the tightness of the Moscow Center, it is placed, as if you are in a curved space.

Nevertheless, this is a new Moscow reality. After eight years, links in the high-rise building of the new Arbat, endless construction, financial delays, multi-part relationships with the replaced city chiefs and Bodani with Archnadzor Helicon-Opera Theater returned to its historical place. The former white -column hall, where, it happened, the musicians and listeners sat on each other on their heads, was restored and now bears the name of his former mistress Princess Shakhovskaya. There are chamber performances. The new hall dug in the courtyard (for which everything was started) is called "Stravinsky". Thus, on a small, on foot, the passing area is already the fifth - after the large, “Stasik”, “New Opera” and the Pokrovsky Theater - a full -fledged opera theater of the amazing city of Moscow (do not forget about the Center of Vishnevskaya and the Sats Theater). Like everyone else, it is filled with viewers.

Who are these spectators? It is hardly the same that 25 years ago they resorted to this place, which was then also called the house of the medic, to slow down and shock himself with opera hooliganism, alternative to everything that was familiar in the world of overlaid eyelashes and stomenous voices. Now everything is different. The image of a teenager-provocateur is more “Helicon” is not to face. A buffet with soft chairs, a souvenir shop with thin porcelain, after the performance - dinner in a restaurant next door, it is better to get by a taxi. The idea itself is an entertaining modern show with irony and pepper, but without provocation.

The first production of Gelikon’s return home is “Sadko” performed by the permanent Khudruk Dmitry Bertman (over the past eight years that has also mastered the profession of the foreman) and his faithful comrades-in-artists Igor Telobyeva. The main conductor Vladimir Ponkin works in turn with Andrei Shrichkov. Light artist - Damir Ismagilov, video artist - Vladimir Alekseev. The last two author for the performance, in which artists are built into the world of high technology, are very important. As well as the choreographer Edvald Smirnov. Of course, there is no ballet troupe in the theater, but it has so long been so far that the Helicon choir is the most dancing of the choirs.

The epic opera of Rimsky-Korsakov fits at two and a half hours. The echoing, not yet adjusted acoustics almost does not allow you to make out the words. But even without words, it is clear that Sadko himself does not pull on a positive hero: he drinks, beats his wife, near which three young children are curled up to enhance the effect, suffers from his own unrealism, in drunk dreams meets with the separation of the underwater king, plunges with her to the sea bottom, and then, thanks to the radiance of the image of Nicholas the Wonderworker, the spectators somehow cope with everything with the head of the spectators. With this murder and returns to the bosom of the family.

It is just as clear that the underwater, that is, the most ethically dubious, part of the performance is the most spectacular. The oceanarium on the stage is a video reduces and videos, the male part of the fish choir is hilariously depicts a classic ballet, the female part crawls around the stage with mermaids or arranges an impressive scaly of the defile. The eye cannot be taken away from Stanislav Shvets in the role of the kidsaan of the sea king. Well, his daughter Volkhova performed by Lydia Svetozarova is simply a real treasure of the “youth” composition that I got (there are several of them in the play). Her earthly rival, Julia Gornostaeva, convincingly copes with the role of a documents of a picked wife, from whom she really wants to escape somewhere. Igor Morozov as a soft -grown Sadko causes participation, but nothing more. From the Triple, singing the most famous music of this opera, the Indian guest-corruption is the most convex performed by Maxim Pasteur invited from the neighboring Bolshoi Theater.

Studying a new space in the old place is in full swing. Less than a month later, in the Stravinsky Hall, the premiere of Evgeny Onegin, declared as “the reconstruction of the historical production of Stanislavsky in 1922”. Perhaps this is an even more noticeable change in the previous landmarks than the video show "Sadko".