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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 of the capital. Tickets for theater productions 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 theater venues in the capital.

Golden Mask - Award Presentation

This year's festival awards Golden Mask 2019 will take place April 16 on the historical stage of the Bolshoi Theater. The festival is held in February - April on stage venues in 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 theater, music, opera, dance and puppet shows and productions presented by the country's leading theaters. The uniqueness of this project lies in the fact that all performances can be seen in one place, namely on the stage spaces and venues of the capital.

Performances are shown everywhere, and not only in theaters. During 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 their vacation can be combined with vivid emotions from festival productions.

Golden Mask Award

Also, separately from the festival, the Golden Mask Award is held annually, which is the culmination of this grandiose event. The laureates and winners of the festival go up on stage to receive their awards in various categories.

The award is held on one of the stages of the capital's theaters. But before you choose best works experienced jury members and critics need to review several dozen works.

Taking part in the award ceremony is already a great honor for any artist. Many means mass media festival participants are closely monitored.

There is always excitement around one of the most prestigious theater awards in our country. Spectators are eagerly awaiting the names of the laureates and winners of the Golden Mask. Every year, thanks to the festival, many people starting their creative path theater directors and artists, actors and screenwriters, dancers and choreographers, composers and musicians have a wonderful opportunity to show their talent throughout the country and gain 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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Union theatrical figures Russian Federation and is awarded to performances of all genres theatrical arts: drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta and musical, puppet theater.

The award winners are determined at the festival of the same name. The festival of performances nominated for the Golden Mask Award is a large-scale forum that presents to the professional community and the general public a complete and objective picture of Russian theatrical life.

The organizers of the festival and theater award "Golden Mask" are the Union of Theater Workers (STD) of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Moscow government, and the festival directorate.

Since 2002, the general sponsor of the Golden Mask has been Sberbank of Russia.

The main goals of the award and festival are to preserve and develop the traditions of Russian theater; identifying the best creative works V various types and genres of theatrical art; identifying trends in the modern theatrical process and strengthening a unified cultural space countries, creating conditions for regular creative exchange.

The competition cycle for the award is considered to be the period from August 1 to July 31 of the next calendar year. Works publicly presented later than the competition period may be considered for the prize in the next cycle.

Only performances by Russian theaters and performances that are co-productions of Russian theaters with foreign ones can be nominated for the prize.

To determine the applicants for the Golden Mask Award, two expert councils are created - to determine the award nominees in competitions for performances of drama and puppet theaters; to determine nominees in competitions for opera, operetta/musical and ballet performances.

To determine the winners of the prize, six independent competitions have been established - a competition for performances of the drama theatre, opera theatres, operetta/musical, ballet, puppet theatres, as well as the "Experiment" competition - the search for new expressive means modern theater.

There are two main nominations in the drama theater performance competition: “Best large-form performance” and “Best small-form performance.” From the number of performances selected for the competition in the main category, award winners in private categories are determined: “Best work of a director”, “Best work of a production designer”, “Best work of a costume designer”, “Best work of a lighting designer”, “Best Actress", "Best Actor", "Best Supporting Actress", "Best Supporting Actor".

In the competition of opera and operetta/musical theater performances, the main nomination is “Best Performance”, and award winners are determined in the nominations “Best Director’s Work”, “Best Conductor’s Work”, “Best Actress”, “Best Actor”.

The ballet performance competition has two main nominations - “Best ballet performance” and “Best modern dance performance”.

In the competition of puppet theater performances, the main nomination is “Best Performance”.

In 2008, the Golden Mask festival won “The best work of a composer in musical theater.”

Prizes for the best works based on the results of the festival are awarded by two professional juries: in competitions for performances of drama and puppet theaters; in competitions for opera, operetta/musical and ballet performances. Each jury is formed by the festival management from among actors, directors, conductors, artists, choreographers and professional theater critics (theatre critics, musicologists, art critics). The jury cannot include members of the expert council, as well as creators and performers of performances participating in the festival. Decisions on awarding prizes are made at the end of the festival at a jury meeting by secret ballot.

Along with competitive prizes, special “Golden Mask” awards have also been established - “For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art”, “For support of the theatrical art of Russia”, “Jury Prize” (two awards).

Each nominee for the award competitions is awarded a commemorative diploma. Prize winners are presented with certificates and memorial signs"Golden Mask".

The memorial sign "Golden Mask" was made according to a sketch by set designer Oleg Sheintsis.

The first presentation of the Golden Mask Award took place in 1995 following the results of the last Moscow theater season. The award in the field of musical theater was given to the opera "Force of Destiny" by Giuseppe Verdi, staged by Evgeny Kolobov at the Moscow Theater " New opera". Best performance was named "Room in the hotel of the city NN" after Nikolai Gogol of the Center named after Vs. Meyerhold, best director - Pyotr Fomenko, best actress— Natalya Tenyakova, best actor— Alexander Feklistov, the best artist— Sergey Barkhin.

Among the prize winners in different times there were theater directors Anatoly Vasiliev and Lev Dodin, actors and directors Konstantin Raikin and Oleg Tabakov, ballet soloists Nikolai Tsiskaridze and Ulyana Lopatkina, conductor Valery Gergiev and others. The “For Honor and Dignity” award was awarded to actors Yulia Borisova, Mikhail Ulyanov, Kirill Lavrov, director Yuri Lyubimov and others.

"Golden Mask" initiated a number of major theatrical events, including international program Russian Case, addressed to foreign guests, publishing projects, tours of the Bolshoi, Mariinsky, Alexandrinsky, Maly Drama, Mikhailovsky theaters etc. Since 2009, the non-competitive program “Mask Plus” has been held within the framework of the festival, since 2010 - the program “ New play". "Golden Mask" pays special attention to touring activities, organizing since 2000, together with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the program "The best performances in the cities of Russia and the Baltic countries."

The permanent president of the festival and the Golden Mask award was theater and film actor Georgy Taratorkin (1945-2017).

Since 2017, the president of the Golden Mask festival and award is People's Artist Russia Igor Kostolevsky.

The 22nd Golden Mask festival, which took place from February 4 to April 15, 2016, was attended by 52 theaters from 19 cities and presented 69 performances. More than 50 laureates received awards.

The laureates of the award "For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art" were the professor, head of the department of acting skills theater institute Saratov Conservatory named after. L.V. Sobinova Rimma Belyakova, actress, director of the Sakhalin International Theater Center. A.P. Chekhova Clara Kisenkova, artistic director Maly Theater Yuri Solomin, artistic director of the Maly Drama Theater (St. Petersburg) Lev Dodin, actor of the Tatar Theater. G. Kamala Rinat Tazetdinov, artistic director of the Ballet Theater Boris Eifman, artist, set designer Boris Messerer and actor of the National Drama Theater. M. Gorky (Minsk, Belarus) Rostislav Yankovsky.

The 23rd Golden Mask festival takes place in Moscow in February-April 2017. Besides competitive program performances nominated for the “Golden Mask” award, the projects “Mask Plus”, “Children’s Weekend”, “Golden Mask” in cinema”, “Golden Mask” in the city”, “Institute of Theatre”, and the Russian Case program are being implemented. The ceremony of awarding the Russian National Theater Award "Golden Mask" will take place on April 19, 2017 on stage Musical theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

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 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 awards and festivals Golden mask» Igor Kostolevsky and general director ANO “Festival “Golden Mask” by Maria Revyakina).

“Due to the fact that the department does not consider it advisable to continue to act as an 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 the 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 get involved in 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 Ministry of Culture Andrey Malyshev. “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 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.

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 ceremony was attended by the director Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, famous theater director Robert Sturua, chief director RAMT Alexey Borodin, Marina and Dmitry Brusnikins, head of the Union of Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin, actress of the Mossovet Theater People's Artist 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 happy man, 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” Theater musical comedy in St. Petersburg.

Reward for best role The supporting role in the 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 best actress in ballet and modern dance was given to Victoria Tereshkina for her role in the play “Violin Concerto #2” Mariinsky Theater, and for the best male role in ballet - Igor Bulitsyn, who played Mercutio in “Romeo and Jellyette” at the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg.

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 “Snuffboxes” Oleg Tabakov and actor of the Vakhtangov Theater Vladimir Etush.

He was awarded an honorary prize “For supporting the theatrical art of Russia” charitable foundation“Art, Science and Sports”, founded in 2006 by Russian entrepreneur and philanthropist Alisher Usmanov.

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 the 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 called "Imago Trap" by 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 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 Theater opera and ballet. 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 the 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 (“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 play “Cantos” Perm Theater Opera and Ballet 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.