The audience called the Tannhazer the performance of the year

On Monday, December 7, in the Vakhtangov Theater in Moscow, a ceremony of presenting the VIII International Theater Prize of the audience sympathies “Theater Star” took place. In the nomination “The Best Musical Play”, the play “Tannheiser” of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater (Ngatoib) was awarded.

The award statuette was awarded to the former director of Ngatoib Boris Mazhni, TASS reports. He himself entered the short list of the nomination "Favorite Theater (Best Director)."

“Tannhazer” received a prize in the nomination “Best Musical Play”. I consider her the most objective, because, in fact, this is a prize of spectator sympathy. We can say the performance is rehabilitated. 50 thousand people from 90 countries voted. And the Tangaiser managed to watch 7 thousand people. Therefore, this, rather, is a reputation assessment of our work, ”said Mezdrich.

“I will call the director of the production of Timofeus Kulyabin, the artist Oleg Golovko, Conductor Ainars Rubikis-I will congratulate. It is a pity that there is no longer a performance. Killed, ”added Mezdrich. He also said that he was going to give the "Star of theater" to the city museum until the time, until "other times will come to the opera theater."

Tannanizer has been going to Ngatoib since December 2014. Kulyabin transferred the action of Wagner's opera to the present, making a knight Henry Tannhaiser film director.

At the end of February, according tothe statement of the Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsky Tikhon, who saw the desecration of religious symbols in the production, the Novosibirsk Prosecutor's Office started administrative cases against Mazhrich and Kulyabin, subsequently decided to terminate the proceedings due to the lack of the composition of the offense.

At the end of March, the Ministry of Culture dismissed Madzrich from the post of director of Ngatoib, the director of the Mikhailovsky Theater (Petersburg) Vladimir Kekhman was appointed in his place, who immediately ordered to exclude the performance of Tanniger from the theater's repertoire.