Theater festival "Golden Mask" opens the opera "Queen of Spades"

In Moscow on Thursday, February 4, the XXII festival "Golden Mask" opens. The first of the applicants for the Russian National Theater Prize will be shown the play "Peak Lady" by the Samara Opera and Ballet Theater. The show will be shown on the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko music theater. The “Queen of Spades” is put forward to the “Golden Mask” in five main nominations: “Best performance in the opera”, “Best work of the conductor”, “Best work of the director”, “Best female role”, “Best male role”.

On Friday, the Samara team will perform in the waiting room of the Paveletsky station, where the final scene of the opera of Rimsky-Korsakov Snegurochka will sound. This flash mob is organized as part of the Golden Mask in the City Extracted project.

The competition program "Golden Mask" presents 52 theater from 19 cities of Russia, 69 performances and more than 200 private nominees. Almost half of the participants are theaters from the province: Yekaterinburg, Kostroma, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Minusinsk, Novosibirsk, Perm, Samara, Saratov, Tomsk, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Yaroslavl. For the first time in the competition, theaters from Serov, Izhevsk, Novokuybyshevsk will compete for awards, TASS reports.

What performances in the framework of the festival will see the audience

The opera of Mozart Don Juan will present at the festival the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. Tchaikovsky, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the festival. The musical director of the production and conductor is Theodore Krentzis. The Golden Mask Award is claimed by two soloists of the theater - Natalya Kirillova and Nadezhda Pavlova, as well as a conductor. This performance will be shown on February 12 on the stage of the New Opera Theater. In addition, as part of the Golden Mask project in the cinema, this performance of the Perm Theater will be able to see spectators in the cinema of the country.

The Perm Theater is one of the leaders in the number of performances presented for the prize. In addition to Don Juan, the Hoffmann's fairy tales, as well as two ballets, are put forward in different nominations - "when snow fell" and "Orange. Conditionally killed."

The Bolshoi Theater will present the opera of Mozart "The Wedding of Figaro". The British conductor William Leisi put her at the Bolshoi Theater with director Evgeny Pisarev, scenaographer Zinovy ​​Margolin and costume artist Victoria Sevryukova - everyone was nominated for the Golden Mask in the nomination “Best Work”. In addition, the three performers - Anna Algalova, Julia Mazurova and Konstantin Shushakov - apply for a prize in the nominations "Best Female Role" and "Best Male Role". The performance will be shown on the Gabt stage twice - February 25 and 27.

Two St. Petersburg Theater - Boris Eifman's ballet and great dramatic. Tovstonogov (BDT) will have time to show their work in February. The choreographer put Ayphman's ballet “Up & Down” by Francis Scott Fitzgerald “The Night of the Night” to the music of George Gershvin, Franz Schubert and Alban Berg to the music of George Gershwin. The performance will take place on February 9 on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater of St. Petersburg.

The February stage of the Golden Mask festival is completed, the dramatic performance “Drunk”, which will present the Bolshaya Drama Theater named after Tovstonogov. The production of the same name by Ivan Vyrypaev was carried out by the Hudruk BDT, the famous director Andrei Mogeliy.

By tradition, two jury will be evaluated by Golden Mask nominees. The judicial collegium at the Drama Theater was headed by the artistic director of the Voronezh Chamber Theater Mikhail Bychkov. The chairman of the jury at the music theater was the dean of the vocal faculty of the St. Petersburg Conservatory Yuri Laptev.

The awarding ceremony of the laureates will be held on April 16 on the stage of the Moscow Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko.

On the eve of the festival around the Golden Mask, a scandal broke out

The Golden Mask was established in 1993 by the Union of Theater Workers of Russia as a professional prize for the best works of the season in all types of theatrical art (drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta, musical, doll theater). Prize winners are determined at the annual festival of nominant performances. The review is held by the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Moscow Government, the Directorate of the Golden Mask festival.

Recall, last fall around the festival and the Golden Mask award, a scandal turned. Theater director Konstantin Bogomolov and the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov refused to participate in the festival.

Bogomolov explained that he made such a decision when he saw the composition of the working group formed by the STD and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation to develop proposals on the prospects for the development of the award and the festival. Serebrennikov explained that, with all his respect for the general director of the Prize and the Festival of Maria Revyakina, he does not want “for hygiene reasons” so that his performances are evaluated by the people who wrote on him the theater in which he serves, “many vile denunciations and Pasquili”.

After the statements of Bogomolov and Serebrennikov, the chairman of the STD of the Russian Federation, Alexander Kalyagin, addressed them with an open letter , in which he called for "humble pride."

Russian theatrical critics sent a letter to Kalyagin demanding to dissolve the expert council of the festival and the Golden Mask prize, after which they created their own association of theatrical critics (ATK).