2018 was the year of farewell to those who largely determined the image of domestic culture. In the last days of the year , a professor at Moscow University Mikhail Allenov passed away . A world -famous scientist, one of the best specialists in Russian art of the New Age, he was a favorite of many generations of students of the history of art of the History Faculty of Moscow State University.

The year has been performed since the death of Andrei Zaliznyak (this happened on December 24, 2017), another great man with whom I was on “you”, and I periodically recall him, sorting out the details of our more than half a century of acquaintance. I repeatedly wrote about him (on the site for his 80th anniversary there is even my recording of these vignettes ), but I want not to repeat myself, but to say something that had not occurred to my head before.

The most important premiere of the season has just been successfully at the Bolshoi Theater - Joakkino Rossini , a journey to Reims . Since the ways of prospective planning of the main theater are inaccessible, and co -products with the theaters of Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Sydney do not happen every day, Colta.ru decided to look at the debutant of the Russian scene, the director Damiano Mikjeletto, related by the leading opera houses of the world.