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Every spring, Moscow hosts one of the most significant events in the world of art and culture - the Russian theater festival Golden Mask, which attracts the attention of tens of thousands of spectators and theatergoers from all over the country.
The best theater groups from all over Russia present their works at the famous theater venues in the capital. Tickets for theatrical performances are sold out months in advance.
Golden Mask Festival 2019
Festival Golden Mask 2019 will traditionally take place at the end of winter and spring in Moscow. Festival dates from February 16 to April 16 . Performances and productions can be watched at the theater venues of the capital.
Golden Mask - Presentation of the Prize
This year's festival award Golden Mask 2019 will take place April 16 on the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. The festival is held in February - April on the stages of Moscow.
About the Festival
The award was first established in 1993. It covers the following genres: drama, ballet, opera, modern dance, as well as such genres as musical and operetta, puppet theater.
Every year, all theatergoers and art lovers have a unique opportunity to see the best theatrical, musical, opera, dance and puppet performances presented by the country's leading theaters. The uniqueness of this project lies in the fact that all the performances can be seen in one place, namely on the stage spaces and venues of the capital.
Performances go everywhere, and not only in theaters. During the days of the festival, the streets of Moscow turn into a grandiose stage where you can see excerpts from performances and exciting performances.
Guests from different cities of Russia and abroad annually try to build their vacation schedule so that the rest can be combined with vivid emotions from festival performances.
Golden Mask Award
Also, separately from the festival, the Golden Mask award is held annually, which is the culmination of this grandiose action. Laureates and winners of the festival rise to the stage to receive their awards in different categories.
The award is held on one of the stages of the capital's theaters. But before choosing the best works, experienced jury members and critics need to look at several dozen works.
To take part in the award ceremony is already a great honor for any person of art. Many media outlets closely follow the participants of the festival.
Around one of the most prestigious theater awards in our country there is always a stir. The audience is looking forward to the names of the laureates and winners of the Golden Mask. Every year, thanks to the festival, many theater directors and artists, actors and screenwriters, dancers and choreographers, composers and musicians who begin their careers have a wonderful opportunity to show their talent throughout the country and receive popular recognition and love from the audience.
It is a great honor for any theater and actor to receive the Golden Mask Award, which is the highest degree of recognition of talent and results of work on a role or theatrical production.
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About 50 awards were presented at the Golden Mask theater award ceremony, which took place on Wednesday at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow.
Conductor Teodor Currentzis, actor Danila Kozlovsky and director Andrei Moguchy did not leave without awards - the best director for the second year in a row.
The Golden Mask 2017 festival featured 74 performances from 25 Russian cities. The number of nominees for the national theater award was a record - 213 directors, actors, artists, composers, playwrights.
Among those who received the largest number of nominations are the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, the Opera and Ballet Theater of Yekaterinburg, the Maly Drama and Bolshoi Drama Theaters of St. Petersburg, the Moscow City Council Theater and the Red Torch (Novosibirsk).
The ceremony was attended by director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, famous theater director Robert Sturua, chief director of RAMT Alexei Borodin, Marina and Dmitry Brusnikin, head of the Union of Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin, actress of the Moscow City Council Theater People's Artist of Russia Nina Drobysheva.
Before the start of the awards ceremony, the director of the Golden Mask, Maria Revyakina, asked the audience to remember Georgy Taratorkin, who headed the award for more than 20 years and died in 2017, with a minute of silence.
Drama
The main prize for the best dramatic performance of a large form was given to the "Russian Romance" of the Mayakovsky Theater. And for the second year in a row, the jury recognizes Andrey Moguchy as the best director, who staged the play “Thunderstorm” at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. The award jury also awarded “Magadan/Cabaret” of the theater “Near the Stanislavsky House” as the best dramatic performance of a small form.
“I would like to take the opportunity to thank my dear people. First of all, this is my teacher, the director of the Maly Drama Theater Lev Dodin, who has some kind of power, strength, inner drama not to stage Hamlet in a comfortable way, but to ask questions in it that cannot be ignored today ...
I want to say thanks to the family, parents and mother, who often asked me where her mask was, and now she has it, ”
Kozlovsky said at the award ceremony.
The best dramatic actress was Evgenia Simonova, who played Sophia Tolstaya in the play “Russian Romance” by the Mayakovsky Theater. The award for the best supporting actress in a drama went to Elena Nemzer from the Alexandrinsky Theater for the role of Pantaloon in the production of The Raven, and the male award went to Holgen Münzenmaier, who played the role of the Deacon in the play Once Upon a Time by the Sharypovo Drama Theater.
Opera
“I am a happy person, because I am a musician, and I strive to be the best both as a musician and as a person… The purpose of creativity is to bring happiness to people”,
Said Currentzis at the award ceremony.
According to the jury, the best director in the opera was Richard Jones, who staged the opera Rodelinda at the Bolshoi Theatre. Rodelinda was also recognized as the best performance in the opera.
Nadezhda Pavlova, who played Violetta Valerie in La traviata at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm, received the Best Actress award in opera, and Liparit Avetisyan for Chevalier de Grieux in the operetta Manon at the Stanislavsky Musical Theater won the award for Best Actress in opera. and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Operetta and musical
The winner of the award in the nomination “Best Performance in Operetta/Musical” was “The Binduzhnik and the King” of the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk. In the nomination “Best Actress in a Musical Operetta”, the winner was Maria Biork for her role as Sonya in the play “Crime and Punishment” by the Musical Theatre, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Also, the composer Eduard Artemyev was awarded a prize for his work in this performance.
"Golden Mask" for the best male role in this category was Viktor Krivonos for his role in the play "White. Petersburg” of the Musical Comedy Theater in St. Petersburg.
The award for Best Supporting Actor in an Operetta/Musical went to Vladimir Galchenko from the Gorky Drama Theater in Samara. The best director in operetta/musical was Roman Feodori from the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk, and the conductor was Andrey Alekseev from the Theater of Musical Comedy in St. Petersburg.
Ballet
The prize for the best female role in ballet and contemporary dance went to Viktoria Tereshkina for her role in the play "Violin Concerto #2" at the Mariinsky Theatre, and for the best male role in ballet - Igor Bulitsyn, who played Mercutio in "Romeo and Juliet" at the Opera and Ballet Theatre. In Ekaterinburg.
Pavel Klinichev became the best conductor in ballet for the Bolshoi Theater's Ondine, which, however, was not an intrigue, since he was the only contender for the award in this nomination for three different performances.
The jury recognized the play “Violin Concerto #2” by Anton Pimonov at the Mariinsky Theater as the best work of a choreographer/choreographer in ballet and modern dance.
The best performance in modern dance was the performance “All Ways Lead to the North” by the Ballet Moscow Theater. At the same time, the prize for the best ballet performance was awarded to the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg for Romeo and Juliet.
Special prizes
The award "For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art" was awarded to the artistic director of the Dagestan Kumyk Music and Drama Theater Aigum Aigumov, the soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Irina Bogacheva, the People's Artist of Russia and Yakutia Andrey Borisov, the Georgian director, screenwriter, playwright, artist, artistic director of the Tbilisi Puppet Theater Rezo Gabriadze, actor and director of the Omsk Musical Theater Georgy Kotov, actor of the Alexandrinsky Theater Nikolai Marton, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and "Snuffboxes" Oleg Tabakov and actor of the Vakhtangov Theater Vladimir Etush.
The Honorary Prize in "For Supporting the Theatrical Art of Russia" was awarded to the "Art, Science and Sport" charity foundation, founded in 2006 by Russian businessman and philanthropist Alisher Usmanov.
We have already noticed that Kirill Serebrennikov, Alexei Malobrodsky, Sofia Apfelbaum and Yuri Itin received the main Golden Masks this year. Almost everyone from the Bolshoi Theater spoke about those arrested in the Seventh Studio case, from the general director of the Maria Revyakina Prize to Lev Dodin, who received the final Mask for the best dramatic performance in a large form. And every time the hall met it with unanimous approval.
The plot of the ceremony with texts by Valery Pecheikin and music by Alexei Nadzharov, dancing robots and flying airships, which was ingeniously staged by Nina Chusova, was dedicated to a future in which all people are engaged in art and no prizes are important anymore. But in fact, the 24th presentation of the national theater award "Golden Mask" lined up in an integral plot - you can call it civil, political or the plot of the unity of the theater community.
Drama
An emotional speech about the fact that the theater should not serve the request for entertainment was made by Alla Demidova, who was awarded for the best female role in the play “Akhmatova. A poem without a hero, where two directors appear - she and Kirill Serebrennikov.
Mikhail Patlasov, receiving an award for the best performance of a small form - "Chuk and Gek" of the Alexandrinsky Theater - suggested silence to honor all the victims of political repression. The play itself is devoted to this theme, in which the fairy tale of Arkady Gaidar is mounted with documentary evidence about the Gulag.
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The jury awarded the Gogol Center team for their “bold search for the language of theatrical modernity” and wished the defendants the cause of freedom. I would like to note that in the conditions of the atmosphere of unity and support that was felt in the auditorium, one should not wish freedom to colleagues - one must continue to fight for it. One can only guess how the Kultura TV channel will deal with the civil statements of the laureates. To cut them out is to cut out half of the ceremony.
But the choice of winners in the two most high-profile dramatic categories sent the ceremony not into the future, but into the past. Out of 14 nominee performances in the Big Form category, the jury chose Lev Dodin's Fear, Love, Despair at MDT. Of the more than 20 contenders for the title of best director - Yuri Butusov ("Uncle Vanya" at the Lensoviet Theatre). It seems that young directors and the new theater were not considered at all. Neither the play "Gogol Center" "Kuzmin. Trout breaks the ice” directed by Vladislav Nastavshev. Nor Rosencrantz and Guildenstern by conceptualist Dmitry Volkostrelov. Even the nomination "Experiment" passed by the project "Away. Europe” by the German group Rimini Protokoll, perhaps the main newsmakers of the world theater of the new century. Both compositions of the jury - drama and musical theater - named the performance of the Uppsala Circus "I am Basho" with the participation of special children and disadvantaged teenagers as the best "Experiment". This is a recognition of the importance of social theater, but still more of an emotional choice - and in innovative theatrical works one would like to see the victory of thought.
On the other hand, the new theater makes its way not necessarily through directing. One of the main triumphs of the ceremony was the artist Ksenia Peretrukhina, who went up on stage several times, including as the best artist in the drama theater (“Breathing” at the Theater of Nations).
Ballet and dance
In the ballet nominations, the jury, as always, was torn between famous performances, brought to the Russian stage for the first time, and new author's choreography. The result of the dispute is a compromise.
The best performance was named "Suite in White", staged at the Moscow Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (MAMT), and composed to music by Edouard Lalo by Sergei Lifar in 1943 for the Paris Opera. This fantastically beautiful snow-white ballet, a hymn to classical dance, was a manifesto of pure art - let the Nazis walk the streets, we are above this and do not deal with such disgusting things as politics. After the liberation of France, Lifar received in full for this position - but this ballet of unthinkable beauty, a little overdone with pathos, remained in history (well, when you defend an unrighteous idea, the style involuntarily grows). Suite in White appeared in the MAMT repertoire after the Paris Opera star Laurent Hilaire came to the post of artistic director of the ballet, and the meticulous Frenchman achieved exemplary quality in the reproduction of this text.
The best work of the choreographer was recognized as the work of the chief choreographer of the Perm Opera Alexei Miroshnichenko. Prokofiev's Cinderella (Teodor Currentzis was also awarded for it as the best conductor in ballet) is an example not of learning an old ballet, but of composing an original one: Miroshnichenko turned the fairy tale into the story of a young Bolshoi ballerina who met her French prince in 1957 in Moscow. Miroshnichenko clearly reproduced Prokofiev's lyrics and Prokofiev's sarcasm (in the scene of foreign tours, when the Bolshoi troupe rushes for shopping, the audience always groans with laughter) - and turned out to be the winner in a clear confrontation with Vyacheslav Samodurov, who directs the Yekaterinburg ballet. Well, it seems that the jury left the cheerful and inventive Snow Queen without awards only because the Yekaterinburg ballet has received awards for several years in a row and will obviously receive them in a year - the premiere of Paquita this season has become a sensation.
Last performance
The award for the best work of a playwright was presented to Dmitry Danilov for the play "The Man from Podolsk", which was staged at the Theater.doc. This performance was the last directorial work of Mikhail Ugarov, who died on April 2 this year. The auditorium honored the memory of the playwright, director and artistic director of Theatre.doc with a standing ovation, as well as the memory of the artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater Oleg Tabakov, who had passed away shortly before him.
The Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Stashkevich received the award for the best female role (for the excellent role of New Girl in Jerome Robbins' bloodthirsty ballet "The Cage" - the dancer, becoming an insect, almost liquidated the opposite sex with a rumbling).
Nurbek Batulla was awarded for the best male role - the Kazan artist was the main and only dancer in the play "The Call of the Beginning", a choreographic anthem of the ancient Tatar literature.
Out of many modern dance performances, the jury chose Tatyana Baganova's "Imago Trap" (Yekaterinburg's "Provincial Dances"). Apparently, the story about the dragonfly and the ant seemed to the venerable jury the most understandable - not like some plotless avant-garde experiments.
Opera and musical
There was no doubt that the music jury would award Benjamin Britten's opera Billy Budd with extraordinary depth and humanity. The only question was how many nominations this co-production of the Bolshoi Theater and the English National Opera would win. The jury showed a sense of proportion: "Billy Budd" was named the best performance in the opera, and the recognition of Paul Steinberg as the best artist strengthened the award. Although the other participants in this performance also confidently contested the awards, the jury did not forget about other successes in the opera genre. The Yekaterinburg performance "Passenger" was awarded in the person of conductor Oliver von Dokhnanyi and actress Nadezhda Babintseva, "Faust" from the "New Opera" - in the person of bass Yevgeny Stavinsky, and "Chaadsky" from "Helikon Opera" - of course, in the person of director Kirill Serebrennikov. The composing competition this year did not have an unconditional favorite. Alexey Syumak's Perm Cantos was chosen, duplicating the composer's victory with a special prize for the entire performance team. The soul of this team was the stage designer Ksenia Peretrukhina, she also took the Golden Mask as the best artist in drama. Receiving both "Masks", Peretrukhina spoke so penetratingly about art and again about freedom that the ceremony found a true heroine. The Russian theater made signs of high recognition to one of its young leaders.
Theatrical companies leading in the entertainment business did not compete in the Operetta/Musical nomination this year. The Taganka Theater's performance "Sweeney Todd, the maniac barber of Fleet Street" became the winner. The performance itself was recognized as the best in the genre, the artist Petr Markin and director Alexei Frandetti received personal awards.
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24th National Theater Award "Golden Mask"
The department called it inappropriate to continue to be among the organizers of Russia's main theater award, emphasizing that the award should be "as independent as possible"
Photo: Vladimir Vyatkin / RIA Novosti
The Ministry of Culture of Russia will no longer be listed as the organizer of the country's main theater award, the withdrawal from the organizers is stated in a letter signed by the deputy head of the department Pavel Stepanov, sent to the chairman of the Union of Theater Workers (STD) Alexander Kalyagin (available to RBC, copies of the letter were also sent to the president awards and the festival "Golden Mask" Igor Kostolevsky and General Director of the ANO "Festival" Golden Mask "Maria Revyakina).
“Due to the fact that the department does not consider it expedient to act as the organizer of the award in the future<...>, we inform you about the resignation of the relevant powers, ”the document says.
The press service of the Ministry of Culture of RBC explained that the inexpediency of the department’s continued presence among the organizers of the Golden Mask (according to the regulations on the award, the co-organizers are the Ministry of Culture and the Union of Theater Works) is explained by the need for maximum independence of the country’s main theater award. At the same time, the department emphasized that so far its functions have been purely nominal.
“In connection with the formal role of the Ministry of Culture of Russia as one of the organizers of the award, the department decided to withdraw from its organizers. We do not consider it expedient to act in this capacity in the future, since we do not actually influence the adoption of any decisions. The presence or absence of the Ministry of Culture as organizers does not affect the functioning of the award, including the issues of its financing,” the press service of the department explained.
Igor Kostolevsky and Maria Revyakina confirmed to RBC that they received a letter from the Ministry of Culture.
“We have indeed received this letter. We turned to Pavel Stepanov, he explained that the state organization does not want to get into a public organization about expert advice. We were told that help, funding - that's all there is," Kostolevsky said.
“A letter arrived. After receiving the letter, we spoke with Deputy Minister Pavel Vladimirovich Stepanov, who said that, in accordance with the regulations, the dominant role belongs to the founder. And he believes that it makes no sense for a state body to interfere in the formation of expert councils, this should be done by a public professional organization. As we worked, we continue to work,” said Revyakina.
Alexander Kalyagin did not answer calls from RBC.
The Ministry of Culture left the organizers of the "Golden Mask" shortly after Andrey Malyshev, head of the department for state support of art and folk art of the Ministry of Culture, resigned due to disagreement with the STD and its head Alexander Kalyagin about his resignation. “I am not ready to work with people who are engaged in thimble-handling,” he told RBC.
Malyshev also explained that the Ministry of Culture has repeatedly initiated reforms of the theatrical environment, but none of them has been supported by the STD. This, according to him, is primarily about the need to rotate the “age management of theaters”, as well as the rejection of the practice of combining the functions of artistic director and director, which is now widely practiced in Russian theaters.
The Russian national theater award "Golden Mask" was established in 1993 and is awarded to performances of all genres of theatrical art: drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta and musical, puppet theater.