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The Golden Mask Russian National Theater Award Ceremony was held on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. The winners were selected from 832 performances staged in more than 100 Russian cities. The decision was made by a two-member jury: the Drama and Puppet Theater, chaired by theater expert and critic Alexei Bartoshevich, and the Musical Theater, led by conductor Pavel Bubelnikov.

In nomination "Operetta - musical" the winner was "Sweeney Todd, the Maniac Barber of Fleet Street" by Moscow's Taganka Theatre. He received two more awards: the best male role - the actor Peter Markin, the director's work - Alexei Frandetti. Anastasia Ermolaeva was named the best performer of the female role, who played in the production of "Mikado, or the City of Titipu" by the Musical Comedy Theater from Yekaterinburg. The Musical Theater from Novosibirsk took two awards - for the work of the conductor (Alexander Novikov) and the best supporting role (Evgeny Ogneva) in the musical "Nameless Star".

Category "Ballet" the best was "Suite in White" of the Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. The best performance in "Modern Dance" was called "Imago-trap" of the Yekaterinburg theater "Provincial Dances". Production of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky's "Cinderella" was noted in the nominations "The work of the conductor" (Teodor Currentzis) and "The work of the choreographer-choreographer" (Aleksey Miroshnichenko). The Golden Mask for male and female roles was given to Nurbek Batulla (The Call of the Beginning, Kazan) and Anastasia Stashkevich (The Cage, Bolshoi Theatre).

A scene from Sweeney Todd, the Maniac Barber of Fleet Street. Moscow Taganka Theater. Photo: tagankateatr.ru

A scene from the operetta The Mikado, or the City of Titipu. Sverdlovsk State Academic Theater of Musical Comedy, Yekaterinburg. Photo: rewizor.ru

A scene from the play "Imago Trap". Theater "Provincial Dances", Yekaterinburg. Photo: kudago.com

Best Opera- "Billy Budd" Bolshoi Theatre. The work of the director in the opera is Kirill Serebrennikov for the production of Chaadsky at the Helikon-Opera. The work of the conductor - Oliver von Dohany in the opera "The Passenger" of the Opera and Ballet Theater of Yekaterinburg, and the actress of this theater Nadezhda Babintseva received the prize for the best female role. Yevgeny Stavinsky was noted in the male role - he performed Mephistopheles in Faust at the Novaya Opera Theater. E.V. Kolobova.

Best Dramatic Performance in Large Form was the production of "Fear Love Despair" of the Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe (director Lev Dodin), and small form- "Chuk and Gek" of the Alexandrinsky Theater (director Mikhail Patlasov). For the female role, Alla Demidova was noted (“Akhmatova. Poem without a Hero”, “Gogol Center”), for the male role - Vyacheslav Kovalev (“Exile”, Theater named after V. Mayakovsky). Best playwright - Dmitry Danilov ("The Man from Podolsk") of the Moscow "Theater.doc", director - Yuri Butusov ("Uncle Vanya") of the Theater. Lensoviet.

A scene from the opera The Passenger. Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. Photo: belcanto.ru

A scene from the play "Fear, Love, Despair." Academic Small Drama Theater - Theater of Europe, St. Petersburg. Photo: mdt-dodin.ru

A scene from the opera Billy Budd. State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Photo: bolshoi.ru

In nomination "Dolls" the performance "And the day lasts longer than a century" by the creative association "Taratumb" and the Museum of the History of the Gulag won. They also noted the work of artists Emil Kapelyush and Yulia Mikheeva (Snegurochka, Kostroma), director Vladimir Biryukov (Parrot and Brooms, Penza), actors of the Tomsk Puppet Theater and actor Buffoon named after. R. Vinderman.

Special awards from the jury of the Drama Theater and the Puppet Theater were awarded to the Khabarovsk Theater for Young Spectators and the Moscow Gogol Center. Special Jury Prizes of the Musical Theater - the play "Cantos" of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky and the creative duet of the play "Manon Lescaut" at the Bolshoi Theater - Anna Netrebko and Yusif Eyvazov. In the "Experiment" competition, the performance "I BASYO" by the St. Petersburg "Upsala Circus" was named the best.

This year, for the first time in the history of the award, two award ceremonies were held. The first took place on March 27, at. In the White Foyer of the Historical Stage of the Bolshoi Theater, 12 laureates were awarded in the honorary nomination "For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art in Russia." Golden Masks were awarded to Valentin Gaft, Alexander Shirvindt, Ivan Krasko, Vladimir Recepter, Nikolai Boyarchikov, Alla Pokrovskaya, Galina Anisimova, Vera Kuzmina, Alla Zhuravleva, Anatoly Gladnev and Yuri Bure-Nebelsen.

On November 2, nominees for the Golden Mask national theater award (season 2016/17) were announced in Moscow. Maria Revyakina, general director of the award and the festival, and Igor Kostolevsky, president of the award, started the press conference with the main, global one - with words about the general atmosphere of inexplicable distrust towards culture and its figures growing in society. The Seventh Studio case became an expression of this "trend of the season". Moscow was represented at the press conference of the country's largest theater festival by Alexander Kibovsky, head of the capital's department of culture. But the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation at the start of the new season of the Golden Mask was not present at all.

… About the nominees - they are also participants in the Golden Mask festival in Moscow (February-April 2018), festival tour programs, broadcasts of its performances in cinemas of the Russian Federation and on the Internet (both forms of expansion of the Mask to the whole country in the spring of 2018 will be expanded ).

The expert councils of the "Golden Mask", "dramatic" and "musical", traveled to 173 cities of Russia last season and watched about 800 premieres.

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The living classic Anatoly Vasiliev, nominated with the play "The Old Man and the Sea", announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy from the nomination for the "Golden Mask". “I chose the path of exile,” he said in his address. And about the nomination of Kirill Sebebrennikov, he noted: Serebrennikov does not need the “Mask”, but freedom: “He deserved it!”

Other nominees: "Uncle Ivan" And "Drums in the Night" Yuri Butusov, "Oedipus Rex" Rimas Tuminas, "Ivanov" Timofey Kulyabin, "The Dragon" Konstantin Bogomolov, "Governor" Andrew the Mighty "Democracy" Alexey Borodin, "Man from Podolsk" Theatre.doc (play by Mikhail Ugarov and Igor Stam based on the play by Dmitry Danilov is an anthropological study of a factory town near Moscow and private life, which is invaded by militant modern times), "Chuk and Gek" Alexandrinsky Theater (in the play by Mikhail Patlasov, Gaidar's story is connected with documents from the 1930s and the reality of the Gulag). The play by Mindaugas Karbauskis based on the play by Marius Ivashkevicius was nominated in 7 nominations "Exile": a chronicle of the fate of a Lithuanian emigrant in London, but also a parable about the fate of all those who met the collapse of the USSR at the age of 30, left or stayed ...

Kirill Serebrennikov, despite the crazy twists and turns of the "Seventh Studio case," is nominated as a nominee by both expert councils. In drama - as the director of the performance of the Gogol Center "Akhmatova. A poem without a hero(co-authored with Alla Demidova). In the opera - as director of the opera Alexander Manotskov "Chaadsky" based on "Woe from Wit" ("Helikon-Opera").

In the "musical" nominations "Masks" - the world (for the composer Gleb Sedelnikov - posthumous) premiere of the opera "The birthplace of electricity" based on texts by Andrey Platonov (director Mikhail Bychkov, Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theatre), "Passenger" Moses Weinberg (staged in Yekaterinburg - the first in Russia), "Billy Bud" And "Manon Lescaut" Bolshoi Theatre, Cantos Teodor Currentzis and director Semyon Aleksandrovsky from Perm.

In the "dance" nominations - "Cell" Jerome Robbins (Bolshoi Theatre), "Cinderella" Perm Opera (the action of the performance by Alexei Miroshnichenko and Teodor Currentzis was moved to 1957), a new work by Tatiana Baganova and her "Provincial Dances" "Imago Trap".

The full list of nominees is on the festival website. In the coming weeks, the traditional programs "Mask Plus" and "Children's Weekend" will be added to it, then - the schedule of film broadcasts of "Masks"-2018 performances in Russian cities and on the festival website. But it is already clear from the list of nominees that the Golden Mask has retained its professional and civic dignity. And the breadth of view: "archaists" and "innovators" are represented in all categories.

The theater festival "Golden Mask" has started in Moscow, which for the 24th time will show the most significant performances of Russian cities of all genres of theatrical art - drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta and musical, puppet theater. This year, about 60 performances have been announced as nominees for the award. TASS has selected the best performances that you can't miss.

One-act premiere ballets at the Bolshoi Theater

February 9th three one-act ballets by Harald Lander, Jerome Robbins and Jiri Kilian will be shown on the New Stage of the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre. This "Etudes", "Forgotten Land" And "Cell" respectively.

"Etudes" is the most famous work of the Danish teacher and choreographer Harald Lander. According to the press service of the Bolshoi Theater, he staged this plotless ballet in 1948 to the music of the 19th-century Western composer Karl Czerny, taking as a basis the development of classical ballet movements.

The performance "The Forgotten Land" staged by the Czech master Jiri Kilian is being staged on the Moscow stage for the first time. The ballet was created by Kilian in 1981 for the troupe of the Stuttgart Ballet to the music of Benjamin Britten's Requiem Symphony.

The Cage is a one-act ballet to music by Igor Stravinsky staged by the outstanding American choreographer Jerome Robbins, created in 1951. "To the daring music of Stravinsky, The Cage plunges into the world of insects, the world of natural selection, where a cruel instinct forces a female to perceive her partner as a victim," the Bolshoi Theater press service said.

Akhmatova at the Gogol Center

"Gogol-center" will present the performance "Akhmatova. A poem without a hero" on February 27. This is a performance by Alla Demidova and Kirill Serebrennikov, who is currently under house arrest. "A Poem Without a Hero" - a work by Anna Akhmatova, on the creation of which the poetess worked for more than 20 years; during the life of the author in the USSR, this work was not published.

Demidova in her book "Akhmatova Mirrors" notes that the more she delved into the work, the more clearly she understood that "it is probably not necessary to literally decipher it." “Specific persons are not so important in the Poem, the flavor of the time is important, because the Poem, among other things, included a huge layer of culture of an entire era, which for many of today's young people has become a long-gone story,” Demidova wrote.

Alla Demidova, Svetlana Mamresheva, Alexander Boldachev, Daniil Zhuravlev and others are involved in the performance.

Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater in Moscow

Musical Theatre. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko will present on March 13 the play "The Motherland of Electricity" by the Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theatre.

This opera by Gleb Sedelnikov based on the works of Andrei Platonov tells about the events taking place at a power plant in the small village of Rogachevka near Voronezh. Platonov himself participated in the construction of the power plant and reflected his observations in the story "On the extinguished lamp of Ilyich."

The performance was directed by Mikhail Bychkov, artistic director of the Platonov Arts Festival and the Voronezh Chamber Theatre.

"Our production was born in the year of the centenary of the revolution of 1917. The spirit of revolutionary hopes, expectations that life would somehow miraculously turn to happiness, accompanied the early Platonov. But then he had his own internal evolution, which took place simultaneously with how it was transformed in the country the idea of ​​building a new world," says the director.

"Opera for violin and scientist" at the Center. Sun. Meyerhold

On the stage of the Center Sun. Meyerhold on March 13 will present the performance "Galileo. Opera for violin and scientist". This is a joint project of the Stanislavsky Electrotheatre and the Polytechnic Museum staged by the artistic director of the Electrotheatre, Boris Yukhananov.

The score, consisting of five parts dedicated to various aspects of the work of the legendary scientist Galileo Galilei, was written by five composers: Sergei Nevsky, Kuzma Bodrov, Dmitry Kurlyandsky, Kirill Chernegin, Pavel Karmanov. Each of them, through music and words, broadcasts a fragment from the life of Galileo, whose role is played by the famous Russian physicist Grigory Amosov. Feeling through the centuries the scientist's faith in the power of insight, the audience will see how academic science and the humanism of art meet on the territory of Galileo, the press service said.

Turgenev at the Theater. Evg. Vakhtangov

On March 14, the Perm Academic Theater-Theater will present on the stage of the Theater. Evg. Vakhtangov's performance "A Month in the Village" based on Turgenev's play.

Written in the first edition in 1848, the play was published only in 1855, while changing two names: "Student", "Two Women" and, finally, "A Month in the Country". Turgenev himself noted that this comedy was never intended for the stage. Nevertheless, many theaters still turn to this work today.

The director of the Perm version of Turgenev's play, Boris Milgram, has been looking for an approach to this play for many years: "I have been thinking about this play all my life. All the time I was looking for its codes and ciphers. And at some point I realized that this play could do amazing things with the audience - to excite the sensual nature of everyone, - notes Milgram, - In our performance we want to place everyone in an atmosphere of love, or rather, in the atmosphere of the emergence and birth of a feeling of love, when a person finds himself in a situation where feelings begin to grow so clearly that they control actions and thoughts."

The performance runs for 2 hours and 20 minutes with one intermission. The performance features compositions by Bach.

Alexandrinsky Theater on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. A.P. Chekhov

Moscow Art Theater A.P. Chekhov on the Main Stage on March 17 will present the performance of the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theater "Crime and Punishment".

The production based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky is the first work on the Alexandrinsky stage by the artistic director of the Hungarian National Theater Attila Vidnyansky. As the director himself noted, for Hungarians this novel is the main work of foreign literature.

“The questions raised in the novel are close to us, and the answers that Dostoevsky gives very powerfully and very unequivocally here,” the director notes. “These are the eternal questions of existence, the destiny of man. About freedom and faith - first of all. "I don't know how relevant this is for Russia. In the West, this is the most pressing problem. Dostoevsky writes it so subtly, so many-sidedly revealed,<…>that in one way or another the novel concerns virtually everything essential in human life. You can read it all your life, and each time it will sound a little different."

Stephen Sondheim at the Taganka Theater

On March 22, the Taganka Theater will show the play "Sweeney Todd, the Maniac Barber of Fleet Street" based on the play by Hugh Wheeler. This is a production of one of the most striking works of the world-renowned classic of contemporary musical theater Stephen Sondheim on the Russian theater stage. Alexei Frandetti, winner of the Golden Mask National Theater Award, worked on the premiere of Taganka.

The director notes that in the mid-70s, Stephen Sondheim showed incredible creative courage when "against the backdrop of unbridled Broadway fun, he created a musical that destroys all the usual canons of the light genre. This production is the first immersive musical in Russia, where the viewer is not only an observer, but and a full-fledged participant in the action, a performance where immersion in the events of the play takes place as realistically as possible, the press service of the theater noted.

The play premiered on January 27th. The performance was immediately awarded five nominations for the Golden Mask - 2018 award.

Molière at the Electrotheatre Stanislavsky

"Electrotheater Stanislavsky" will present the play "Tartuffe" based on the play by Molière on March 22. The great comedy of Molière is one of the key texts of the world theatre, a play with a grandiose stage history and a turbulent background, including a scandal and a double ban, the press service notes. Philip Grigoryan used Mikhail Donskoy's translation and invited Olga Fedyanina as a consultant playwright.

Actors instead of "sliding along convenient verses" have to talk "documentary", the press service noted. Choreographer Anna Abalikhina invites them to see the real space around - not the abstractness of the stage, but the duration of their movements, their physical presence in these walls and on these stages. "The absurdity, the painfulness of the situation, seemingly obvious to outsiders, should be reliable, not fantastic," the press service stressed.

In Moscow, at the Bolshoi Theater, on April 15, the ceremony of presenting the national theater award "Golden Mask" following the results of the 2016-2017 theater season took place. Here is a list of winners (laureates) in all categories.

DRAMA / LARGE FORM PERFORMANCE
FEAR LOVE DESPAIR, Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe, St. Petersburg

DRAMA / SMALL FORM PERFORMANCE
CHUK AND GEK, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/DIRECTOR'S WORK
Yuri BUTUSOV, "Uncle Vanya", Theatre. Lensoveta, St. Petersburg

DRAMA / MALE ROLE
Vyacheslav KOVALEV, Ben, Exile, Theatre. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

DRAMA/FEMALE ROLE
Alla DEMIDOVA, “Akhmatova. A poem without a hero, Gogol Center, Moscow

DRAMA/MASTER ROLE
Dmitry LYSENKOV, Svidrigailov, "Crime and Punishment", Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/SUPPORTING FEMALE
Anastasia LEBEDEVA, Manke, Drums in the Night, Theatre. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow

DRAMA
Dmitry DANILOV, The Man from Podolsk, Theatre.doc, Moscow

To the staff of the Gogol Center Theater under the direction of Kirill Serebrennikov - "For the creation of a space for creative freedom and a bold search for the language of theatrical modernity"

SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY OF THE DRAMA THEATER AND PUPPET THEATER
Khabarovsk Theater for Young Spectators - "For the subtle and scenically expressive reading of Leo Tolstoy's story "Childhood" by means of a holistic ensemble of actors."

DRAMA/ARTIST'S WORK
Ksenia PERETRUKHINA, Breath, Theater of Nations, Moscow

DRAMA/COSTUME WORK
Elena SOLOVIEVA, King Lear, Gran Theatre, Novokuibyshevsk

DRAMA/ LIGHTING WORK
Stas SVISTUNOVICH, "Governor", Bolshoi Drama Theatre. G.A. Tovstonogov, St. Petersburg

DOLLS/PERFORMANCE
AND THE DAY LASTS LONGER THAN A CENTURY, Museum of the History of the Gulag and the Creative Association "Taratumb", Moscow

DOLLS/DIRECTOR'S WORK
Vladimir BIRYUKOV, Parrot and Brooms, Doll's House Theatre, Penza

DOLLS/ARTIST'S WORK
Emil KAPELYUSH, Yulia MIKHEEVA, The Snow Maiden, Puppet Theatre, Kostroma

DOLLS/ACTOR WORK
Natalia PAVLENKO, Marina DYUSMETOVA, Ekaterina ROMAZAN, Señora Tepan - "Picnic", Theater of Puppet and Actor "Skomorokh" them. R. Vinderman, Tomsk

COMPETITION "EXPERIMENT"
I am BASE, Uppsala Circus, St. Petersburg

OPERA / PERFORMANCE
BILLY BUDD, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

OPERA / CONDUCTOR'S WORK
Oliver von DOCHNANY, The Passenger, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg

OPERA/DIRECTOR'S WORK
Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV, Chaadsky, Helikon-Opera Theatre, Moscow

OPERA/MALE ROLE
Evgeny STAVINSKY, Mephistopheles, Faust, Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow

OPERA/FEMALE ROLE
Nadezhda BABINTSEVA, Lisa, The Passenger, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg

BALLET / PERFORMANCE
SUITE IN WHITE, Musical Theatre. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Moscow

MODERN DANCE/PERFORMANCE
IMAGO-TRAP, Provincial Dances Theatre, Yekaterinburg

BALLET / CONDUCTOR'S WORK
Teodor KURENTZIS, Cinderella, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

BALLET-MODERN DANCE/ WORK OF A CHOREOGRAPHER-CHOREOGRAPHER
Alexey MIROSHNICHENKO, Cinderella, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

BALLET – MODERN DANCE/MALE ROLE
Nurbek BATULLA, "The Call of the Beginning", the Creative Environment Foundation for Cultural Initiatives and the Theater Project "Stone. Cloud. Bird, Kazan

BALLET – MODERN DANCE/FEMALE ROLE
Anastasia STASHKEVICH, New Girl, The Cage, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

OPERETA-MUSICAL / PERFORMANCE
SWEENIE TODD, THE MANIAC BARBER OF FLEET STREET, Taganka Theatre, Moscow

OPERATA-MUSICAL / CONDUCTOR'S WORK
Alexander NOVIKOV, The Nameless Star, Musical Theatre, Novosibirsk

OPERA-MUSICAL/DIRECTOR'S WORK
Alexei FRANDETTI, Sweeney Todd, Maniac Barber of Fleet Street, Taganka Theatre, Moscow

OPERATA-MUSICAL/MALE ROLE
Pyotr MARKIN, Sweeney Todd, "Sweeney Todd, Maniac Barber of Fleet Street", Taganka Theatre, Moscow

OPERATA-MUSICAL/FEMALE ROLE
Anastasia ERMOLAEVA, Yam-Yam, Mikado, Musical Comedy Theatre, Yekaterinburg

OPERETTA-MUSICAL/BEST SECONDARY ROLE
Evgenia OGNEVA, Mademoiselle Ku-Ku, The Nameless Star, Musical Theatre, Novosibirsk

WORK OF A COMPOSER IN A MUSICAL THEATER
Alexey SYUMAK, Cantos, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

Anna NETREBKO and Yusif EIVAZOV - for a unique creative duet in the performance of the Bolshoi Theater "Manon Lescaut".

SPECIAL PRIZE OF THE JURY OF THE MUSICAL THEATER
Performance "Cantos", Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm (Alexey SYUMAK, Semyon ALEKSANDROVSKY, Ksenia PERETRUKHINA, Lyosha LOBANOV, Ksenia GAMARIS, musicAeterna choir and Teodor KURENTZIS - "For artistic integrity and the creation of an innovative form of musical performance by an ensemble of authors and performers."

THE WORK OF A LIGHTING ARTIST IN A MUSICAL THEATER
Alexander NAUMOV, Salome, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

COSTUME DESIGNER WORK IN MUSICAL THEATER
Tatyana NOGINOVA, Cinderella, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

ARTIST'S WORK IN MUSICAL THEATER
Paul STEINBERG, Billy Budd, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Performance "Ivanov" at the Theater of Nations

The first and second capitals are constantly ahead of the rest of Russia in terms of both the number of Golden Mask nominations and the number of prizes received. This year the situation has not changed - and why? - and out of fourteen contenders for the victory in the category "Drama / performance of a large form", twelve productions were created in the theaters of these two cities.

Of course, the most eminent ones are represented - for example, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater with The Dragon, Oedipus Rex of the Vakhtangov Theater, the Governor of the Tovstonogov Theater or Crime and Punishment from Alexandrinka. However, it is very difficult to single out someone specific - in this nomination, Akhmatova. A poem without a hero" and "Kuzmin. Trout breaks the ice”, staged at the Gogol Center, Ivanov by the Theater of Nations, Uncle Vanya by the Lensoviet Theater and Democracy by the RAMT.

Among opera and ballet performances, the competition is not weaker at all, but Moscow and St. Petersburg found themselves in a dominant position here too.

So, out of nine opera productions, six are presented by the theaters of these two cities, primarily Bolshoi and Mariinsky. However, Helikon-Opera has two performances in the category, Turandot and Chaadsky. The situation is the same in ballet, but here everything is more harmonious - out of seven performances, only four will come from Moscow and St. Petersburg. their productions were presented by the Mariinsky (The Seasons) and the Bolshoi (Cage) theatres, as well as the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater (Second Detail and Suite in White).

Rest of Russia

Performance "Warrior-Dzhyrybyna" in the theater "Olonkho", Yakutsk

In the category "Drama of the big form" only two performances not from Moscow and St. Petersburg got to the "Mask". These are “Antigone”, staged at the Gafuri Bashkir Drama Theater, and “Warrior-Dzhyrybyna” by the Yakut theater “Olonkho”.

Most of the regional theaters are presented in the nomination "Drama / Performance of a small form" -

groups from Krasnodar (“Thunderstorm” of the Youth Theater), Khabarovsk (“Childhood” of the Youth Theater), Omsk (“Life” of the Drama Theater), as well as from Almetyevsk, Perm, Novosibirsk and other cities are noted here.

In the opera, as already mentioned, there are almost no regional theaters - the performances "Cantos" of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater and "Passenger" of the Opera and Ballet Theater from Yekaterinburg participate in the competition. Other cities of Russia have played a little bit only in ballet - here is Cinderella from Perm (which has a total of eight nominations for the award), and two productions of the Yekaterinburg theater - Naiad and the Fisherman. Suite" and "Snow Queen".

"Akhmatova" Serebrennikov staged himself, giving the main and only role. In addition, for his work on Akhmatova, the director was also nominated in the Drama/Director's Work category. But "Kuzmin", which is based on the last, 11th book of poems of the Silver Age poet, is the work of the Riga director Vladislav Nastashev, who has three more performances on his account at the Gogol Center: "Mitina's Love", "Medea ", "Without fear".

Director Anatoly Vasilyev at the closing ceremony of the A.P. Chekhov Theater Festival at the Vakhtangov Theatre, July 2017

Anatoly Vasiliev's play "The Old Man and the Sea", the result of cooperation between the Chekhov Theater Festival and the Vakhtangov Theater, was presented in several "Masks" nominations at once - for example, in "Drama / Large Form Performance" and "Best Director of a Dramatic Performance".

But immediately after the announcement of the festival's shortlist, Vasiliev wrote an open letter in which he refused the nomination.

The director also indicated that since 2008 he has not participated in the cultural life of the city and has been in "voluntary exile", but works mainly abroad - in France, in Italy. In addition, Vasiliev recalled that he was never returned to the studio on Povarskaya - although they promised.

“Another reason not to mention at all! Forgive me, but Kirill Serebrennikov needs not the Golden Mask, but freedom! He deserved it, ”Vasiliev wrote.

As a result, The Old Man and the Sea remained on the list of nominees for the Golden Mask 2018, but, as the press service of the festival explained to Gazeta.Ru, this only means that the performance was nominated for an award. But the production will not claim victory, the jury will not watch it within the framework of the festival, and no screenings are planned during the Golden Mask.