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”
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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 list of 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 prize and festival “Golden Mask” to Igor Kostolevsky and general director of the ANO “Festival “Golden Mask” Maria Revyakina).
“Due to the fact that the department does not consider it advisable to continue to act as the organizer of the award<...>, we inform you about the resignation of the relevant powers,” the document says.
The press service of the Ministry of Culture explained to RBC that the inappropriateness 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 STD) is explained by the need for maximum independence of the country’s main theater award. At the same time, the department emphasized that until now its functions have been purely nominal.
“In connection with the formal role of the Russian Ministry of Culture as one of the organizers of the award, the department decided to withdraw from its organizers. We do not consider it advisable to continue to act in this capacity, since we actually do not 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 issues of its financing,” explained the department’s press service.
Igor Kostolevsky and Maria Revyakina confirmed to RBC that they had received a letter from the Ministry of Culture.
“We actually received this letter. We turned to Pavel Stepanov, he explained that the state organization does not want to interfere with the public organization regarding expert advice. We were told that help, funding - all this remains,” 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 predominant role belongs to the founder. And he believes that it makes no sense for a government body to interfere in the formation of expert councils; this should be done by a public professional organization. We work as we worked,” Revyakina noted.
Alexander Kalyagin did not answer RBC's calls.
The withdrawal of the Ministry of Culture from the organizers of the “Golden Mask” occurred shortly after the head of the department of state support of art and folk art of the Ministry of Culture, Andrei Malyshev, resigned due to disagreement with the STD and its head Alexander Kalyagin. “I’m not ready to work with people who are engaged in thimbleing,” he told RBC.
Malyshev also explained that the Ministry of Culture has repeatedly initiated reforms in the theatrical environment, but none of them have 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 abandonment 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.
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 Moguchiy did not go without awards - 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, and playwrights.
Among those who received the largest number of nominations are the capital's Bolshoi Theater, the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, the Maly Drama and Bolshoi Drama Theaters of St. Petersburg, the Mossovet Theater and the “Red Torch” (Novosibirsk).
The solemn ceremony was attended by the director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, the famous theater director Robert Sturua, the main director of RAMT Alexey Borodin, Marina and Dmitry Brusnikin, the head of the Union of Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin, the actress of the Mossovet Theater, People's Artist of Russia Nina Drobysheva.
Before the presentation of the awards, the director of the Golden Mask, Maria Revyakina, asked the audience to remember with a minute of silence Georgy Taratorkin, who headed the award for more than 20 years and died in 2017.
Drama
The main prize for the best dramatic performance of a large form went to “Russian Novel” of the Mayakovsky Theater. And for the second year in a row, the jury recognized Andrei Moguchy, who staged the play “The Thunderstorm” at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, as the best director. The 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 this opportunity to thank my dear people. First of all, this is my teacher, director of the Maly Drama Theater Lev Dodin, who has some kind of power, strength, inner drama, not to stage “Hamlet” in a comfortable form, but to ask questions in it that today cannot help but ask...
I want to say thank you 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 Sofia Tolstoy in the play “Russian Novel” at the Mayakovsky Theater. The award for 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 Münzenmayer, who played the role of the Deacon in the play “Once Upon a Time” at the Sharypovo Drama Theater.
Opera
“I am a happy person because I am a musician, and I strive to be the best both musician and person... The purpose of creativity is to bring happiness to people,”
Currentzis said at the presentation ceremony.
The best director in opera, according to the jury, was Richard Jones, who staged the opera “Rodelinda” at the Bolshoi Theater. “Rodelinda” was also recognized as the best performance in the opera.
The prize for the best female role in the opera was given to Nadezhda Pavlova, who played Violetta Valerie in “La Traviata” at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm, and for the best male role in the opera - Liparit Avetisyan for Chevalier des Grieux in the operetta “Manon” at the Stanislavsky Musical Theater and Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Operetta and musical
The winner of the award in the category “Best Performance in an Operetta/Musical” was “Bindyuzhnik and the King” of the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk. In the category “Best Actress in a Musical Operetta,” the winner was Maria Biork for her role as Sonya in the play “Crime and Punishment” at the Musical Theater, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Composer Eduard Artemyev was also awarded a prize for his work in this performance.
“Golden Mask” for the best male role in this category was awarded to 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 an operetta/musical was Roman Feodori from the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk, and the conductor was Andrey Alekseev from the Musical Comedy Theater in St. Petersburg.
Ballet
The prize for the best female role in ballet and modern dance was given to Victoria Tereshkina for her role in the play “Violin Concerto #2” at the Mariinsky Theater, and for the best male role in ballet - Igor Bulitsyn, who played Mercutio in “Romeo and Jelliette” at the Opera and Ballet Theater In Ekaterinburg.
The best conductor in ballet was Pavel Klinichev for the performance “Ondine” at the Bolshoi Theater, which, however, was not an intrigue, since he was the only contender for the award in this category for three different performances.
The jury recognized the performance “Violin Concerto #2” by Anton Pimonov at the Mariinsky Theater as the best work by a choreographer/choreographer in ballet and modern dance.
The best performance in modern dance was named “All Roads Lead North” by the Moscow Ballet Theater. At the same time, the prize for the best performance in ballet was awarded to the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg for “Romeo and Juliet”.
Special prizes
The prize “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, People’s Artist of Russia and Yakutia Andrei 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 “Snuff Boxes” Oleg Tabakov and actor of the Vakhtangov Theater Vladimir Etush.
The “Art, Science and Sports” charity foundation, founded in 2006 by Russian businessman and philanthropist Alisher Usmanov, was awarded an honorary prize “For support of the theatrical art of Russia.”
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The ceremony for presenting the Russian National Theater Award “Golden Mask” took place on the New Stage of the Bolshoi Theater. The winners were chosen from 832 performances staged in more than 100 Russian cities. The decision was made by a two-member jury: the “Dramatic Theater 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 the play “Sweeney Todd, the Maniacal Barber of Fleet Street” at the Moscow Taganka Theater. He received two more awards: best actor - actor Pyotr Markin, work of director - Alexey Frandetti. Anastasia Ermolaeva, who played in the production of “The Mikado, or the City of Titipu” by the Musical Comedy Theater from Yekaterinburg, was named the best female performer. The musical theater from Novosibirsk took home two awards - for the work of the conductor (Alexander Novikov) and the best supporting role (Evgenia Ogneva) in the musical “Nameless Star”.
In category "Ballet" the best was “Suite in White” by the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. The best performance in “Modern Dance” was named “Imago Trap” of the Yekaterinburg theater “Provincial Dances”. Staged by the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater named after. P.I. Tchaikovsky's "Cinderella" was noted in the category "Work of a conductor" (Teodor Currentzis) and "Work of a choreographer" (Alexei Miroshnichenko). Nurbek Batulla (The Call of the Beginning, Kazan) and Anastasia Stashkevich (The Cage, Bolshoi Theater) received the Golden Mask for male and female roles.
Scene from the play "Sweeney Todd, the Maniacal Barber of Fleet Street." Moscow Taganka Theater. Photo: tagankateatr.ru
Scene from the operetta “The Mikado, or the City of Titipu”. Sverdlovsk State Academic Theater of Musical Comedy, Yekaterinburg. Photo: rewizor.ru
Scene from the play “Imago Trap”. Theater "Provincial Dances", Yekaterinburg. Photo: kudago.com
Best Opera- “Billy Budd” of the Bolshoi Theater. The work of the director in the opera is Kirill Serebrennikov for the production of “Chaadsky” at the Helikon Opera Theater. The work of the conductor is Oliver von Dohanyi in the opera “The Passenger” of the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, and the actress of this theater Nadezhda Babintseva received the prize for best actress. In the male role, Evgeniy Stavinsky was noted - he performed Mephistopheles in Faust at the New Opera Theater. E.V. Kolobova.
Best large-format dramatic performance was the production of “Fear, Love, Despair” by the Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe (directed by Lev Dodin), and small form- “Chuk and Gek” of the Alexandrinsky Theater (director Mikhail Patlasov). Alla Demidova was awarded for the female role (“Akhmatova. A Poem without a Hero”, “Gogol Center”), and Vyacheslav Kovalev (“Exile”, V. Mayakovsky Theater) for the male role. The best playwright is Dmitry Danilov ("The Man from Podolsk") of the Moscow "Teatra.doc", director - Yuri Butusov ("Uncle Vanya") of the Theater. Lensovet.
Scene from the opera "The Passenger". Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater. Photo: belcanto.ru
Scene from the play “Fear, Love, Despair.” Academic Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe, St. Petersburg. Photo: mdt-dodin.ru
Scene from the opera "Billy Budd". State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow. Photo: bolshoi.ru
In nomination "Dolls" won the play “And the day lasts longer than a century” by the creative association “Taratumb” and the Gulag History Museum. They also noted the work of artists Emil Kapelyush and Yulia Mikheeva (“The Snow Maiden”, Kostroma), director Vladimir Biryukov (“Parrot and Brooms”, Penza), actors of the Tomsk Puppet Theater and actor “Skomorokh” named after. R. Vinderman.
Special jury awards for the Drama Theater and Puppet Theater went to the Khabarovsk Theater for Young Spectators and the Moscow Gogol Center. Special jury awards of the Musical Theater - the performance “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 AM BASYO” by the St. Petersburg “Uppsala 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 received by Valentin Gaft, Alexander Shirvindt, Ivan Krasko, Vladimir Recepter, Nikolai Boyarchikov, Alla Pokrovskaya, Galina Anisimova, Vera Kuzmina, Alla Zhuravleva, Anatoly Gladnev and Yuri Bure-Nebelsen.
