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MOSCOW, April 19 – RIA Novosti. About 50 awards were presented at the theater awards ceremony " Golden mask", 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 - the best director for the second year in a row - did not go without awards.

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 of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, famous theater director Robert Sturua, chief director RAMT Alexey Borodin, Marina and Dmitry Brusnikins, head of the Union theatrical figures 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 Stanislavsky's House" as the best dramatic performance of a small form.

Kozlovsky was recognized as the best dramatic actor for the role of Hamlet at the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg.

"I would like to take the opportunity to thank my dear people. First of all, this is my teacher, director Maly drama theater Lev Dodin, who has some kind of power, strength, inner drama, does not stage “Hamlet” in a comfortable form, but asks in it questions that today cannot help but be asked... I want to say thanks to my family, parents and mother, who often asked me where her mask, 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’m 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 award 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 performed 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 Theatre, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Composer Eduard Artemyev was also awarded a prize for his work in this performance.

The "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 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

Prize for Best Actress in Ballet and modern dance Victoria Tereshkina received 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 Gellietta” at the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg.

The best conductor in ballet was Pavel Klinichev for the Bolshoi Theater's performance of Ondine, 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 best performance in ballet was awarded to the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg for Romeo and Juliet.

Special prizes

Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development theatrical arts"the artistic director of the Dagestan Kumyk Musical and Drama Theater Aigum Aigumov, the soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Irina Bogacheva, People's Artist Russia and Yakutia Andrey Borisov, 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.

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

On April 19, 2017, the winners of the 2017 Golden Mask Award were announced in Moscow. We supplemented the official verdict of the jury with an informal vote and are ready to sum up the results.

Overall predict official results Another “Mask” could have been done relatively easily. Nevertheless, the results of the audience vote, from our point of view, could add interesting details to the picture.

We, of course, were only interested in nominations related to musical theater - there were 11 of them.

Voting began quite late, on the night of April 17, 2017, which may have been our mistake: it was worth starting the process a few days earlier so that everyone interested in the results of the “Golden Mask” would certainly know about it. Then there would be more votes, and the results would be more legitimate. On the other hand, the late start allowed us not to make any extraordinary efforts to protect against cheating.

The results of this voting may be of some interest with one amendment: the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theater shared our publication on its VKontakte page, and therefore almost all of the first places in the opera categories of our voting were given to Astrakhan residents. The only thing we can regret in this regard is that other theaters did not follow the example of Astrakhan: in this case, our voting would also turn out to be a competition for the number of subscribers on social networks.

In the “Opera – Performance” nomination, the first place in the audience voting was taken by the production of “The Damnation of Faust” by the Astrakhan Theater, which received 701 votes, and the second place was taken by “The Maid of Orleans” by the Bashkir Theater (395 votes). “La Traviata” by the Perm Theater, which many considered the favorite of the race, received only 289 votes from the audience.

But the jury of “The Mask” recognized the best performance in the opera “Rodelinda” from the Bolshoi Theater (which was transferred to the Bolshoi stage from the English National Opera). In the audience voting, “Rodelinda” received 54 votes, surpassing only other Bolshoi Theater productions – “The Damnation of Faust” (46 votes) and “Katerina Izmailova” (44 votes).

In the “Opera – the work of a conductor” category, the audience’s first place was Valery Voronin from Astrakhan for the performance “The Damnation of Faust” (530 votes), and the second was the official winner of the “Golden Mask” Teodor Currentzis with 315 votes.

The audience considered Konstantin Balakin (Astrakhan, “The Damnation of Faust”) the best work of the director in the opera - 432 votes, the second was Robert Wilson (210 votes) for his performance “La Traviata”. The official “Mask” in this nomination went to Richard Jones for “Rodelinda” at the Bolshoi Theater, and Robert Wilson, unexpectedly for many, turned out to be the best artist around the world.

Probably, only this result of the current “Golden Mask” caused excitement in the discussions. Yulia Bederova, in an article about the results of the competition, described this moment as a “playful decision of the jury,” and Vadim Zhuravlev (a regular author of the site and once a member of the Golden Mask jury) in his post on Facebook simply called it a “slap in the face” to Robert Wilson.

In the “Opera – Female Role” category, the first place among the audience was Evgenia Afanasyeva from MAMT for her role as Manon in opera of the same name Massenet (383 votes). The official jury recognized best hope Pavlova from the Perm Theater for the role of La Traviata in the play by Robert Wilson. In the audience vote, Nadezhda Pavlova received 221 votes for this role.

Audience choice for the best male role in an opera was given to Valery Fomin (Young Haaz, Doctor Haaz, Helikon Opera Theater - 120 votes). The real “Mask” in this nomination went to Liparit Avetisyan for Chevalier des Grieux in the operetta “Manon” at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre. In the audience vote, this singer was in fourth place on the list with 78 votes.

The audience voted “Romeo and Juliet” from Yekaterinburg (366 votes) as the best ballet performance, and the audience agreed with the Golden Mask jury.

The best work of a conductor in ballet was Pavel Klinichev’s work on the play “Ondine” at the Bolshoi Theater. He was the only nominee this year, and the audience felt that his work in Yekaterinburg on “Romeo and Juliet” deserved “The Mask” more: Klinichev with “Romeo” received 204 audience votes, and Klinichev with “Ondine” - 41.

According to the audience, Vyacheslav Samodurov (“Romeo and Juliet, Yekaterinburg – 248 votes”) became the best choreographer, but the jury recognized best job choreographer/choreographer in ballet and modern dance for the performance “Violin Concerto No. 2” by Anton Pimonov at the Mariinsky Theater. The audience voted for this production 25 times.

The audience considered Ekaterina Sapogova (“Romeo and Juliet, Yekaterinburg” – 214 votes) the best ballerina, and the jury considered Victoria Tereshkina (“Violin Concerto No. 2”, Mariinsky Theater). The audience put Tereshkina in third place (48 votes).

The best dancer according to the audience was Igor Bulytsyn (Mercutio, “Romeo and Juliet, Yekaterinburg” - 759 votes), and this is the second time this year when the opinion of the audience coincided with the opinion of the Golden Mask jury.

In the nomination “Work of a composer in musical theater“Georgy Firtich was the first among the audience (the play “White. Petersburg - 84 votes”), but the jury recognized Eduard Artemyev first for his work on the play “Crime and Punishment” at the Moscow Musical Theater. Viewers voted for this work 66 times.

More than fifty winners were awarded the “Golden Masks” in Moscow. The list of theater award nominees includes all types and genres of performing arts: ballet, musical, drama, puppet theater. To select the best, this season experts looked at almost a thousand performances staged in more than a hundred Russian cities.

It was the largest theatrical marathon in the entire history of the Golden Mask. Over two and a half months, audiences saw 74 performances. The creators of the best of them took part in the last and most unpredictable presentation of this festival - the award ceremony. According to tradition, it takes place on the stage of the Musical Theater named after. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. Only the names of the laureates in the nomination “For Contribution to the Development of Theater Art” were known in advance. This year's winners include Vladimir Etush, Rezo Gabriadze and Oleg Tabakov. The audience greeted them standing.

“You know, for almost 60 years I’ve been going on stage and I haven’t said anything yet, and people are applauding. So I’m used to it,” says People’s Artist of the USSR Oleg Tabakov.

For the first time in the history of “The Mask,” the applicant in the “Work of a conductor in ballet” category did not have to worry. The intrigue here was not who would receive the award, but for which particular performance. After all, all three nominations belong to one person, Pavel Klinichev. The jury recognized the ballet “Ondine” at the Bolshoi Theater as his best work.

“It’s nice to go to the ceremony knowing that you will still receive the Mask,” the conductor said.

By the way, the Bolshoi is the absolute record holder of this award. Six of his performances competed at once, and they were presented in 25 nominations. The result is three awards. In addition to Klinichev, Richard Jones, director of Handel's Rodelinda, celebrated the triumph. She was also recognized best opera. But the opera conductor of the year, as expected, was the conductor artistic director Perm Opera and Ballet Theater named after. Tchaikovsky Teodor Currentzis. He is called a musical genius. This is already the sixth Golden Mask to his name - this time for La Traviata.

“If you take some modern opera, about which you have absolutely no idea what this opera is about, you go inside, you research. And the operas that we think we know well, we don’t pay as much attention to them, think about it,” he says.

On the stage there is a black and white kingdom, but the guests have the whole palette of emotions. Some even ran around the stage, danced and sang with happiness.

But this holiday has sad notes. In February, the permanent president of the festival, Georgy Taratorkin, passed away. His memory was honored with a minute of silence. Igor Kostolevsky was unanimously elected as the new president.

“The festival is unique. There is no such festival in any country in the world. He demonstrates a very high level of both directing and acting. And what’s nice is that there are a lot of theaters from the provinces,” says Igor Kostolevsky.

In addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg, there are 23 more cities. For the first time, groups from Kemerovo, Naberezhnye Chelny, Norilsk, and Tver participated. The theater from the town of Sharypovo is also making its debut; there are only ten actors in this troupe. And immediately Holger Münzenmayer won the nomination “Supporting Actor” in the drama “Once Upon a Time.”

To be or not to receive an award for Danila Kozlovsky is not a question for the jury. They recognized his Hamlet as the best male role.

“I want to say thank you to my family - both my parents and my mother, who quite often asked me, where is her “Mask”? And today, finally, I can answer this question,” said the actor.

The toughest competition is in the Best Director in Drama category. There were 28 names on the shortlist for the award. Lev Dodin, Mindaugas Karbauskis, Timofey Kulyabin, Dmitry Krymov... remained sitting in their chairs. And the artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater took the stage. Tovstonogov in St. Petersburg Andrey Moguchiy. He won this category for the second year in a row. His “Thunderstorm” is by no means just another attempt to update Ostrovsky.

“We looked more at folk roots, parable roots, fairy tale roots. The question of the archaic interested me more than the question of adaptation or connection to modernity,” explains the director.

The main prize for the best large-scale performance went to “Russian Novel” of the Mayakovsky Theater. The life story of Leo Tolstoy is shown through the eyes of his wife Sophia. For this role, Evgenia Simonova received the “Mask” as best actress. Playwright Marius Ivaskevicius also received the award. The creators of the production jokingly revealed the secret of success: when you take on the biography of one of greatest writers, you just don’t have the right to do something bad.

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On April 19, the annual Golden Mask festival ended. The result of the festival was the solemn ceremony of presenting the Russian National Theater Prize. On the stage of the Musical Theater named after. K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko was announced results that were partly shocking, partly predictable and not foreseen except by people not connected in any way with theater world. Let us briefly describe the results of the 2017 Golden Mask.

“In opera, the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater received the most awards. P. I. Tchaikovsky and the Moscow Bolshoi Theater"

And if a large number of awards in the Bolshoi collection is almost a tradition of any award, then Perm theater took the lead relatively recently. So several awards went to the Urals at once. The scandalous opera La Traviata, which could not be brought to Moscow due to acoustic issues (as part of the competition, all competitors from different cities of Russia bring their productions to Moscow stages) and which the jury ultimately evaluated within the walls of their native theater, brought well-deserved results. Teodor Currentzis, an experimental conductor, became thanks to this production the winner in the category opera/conductor's work, performer main party Violetta Valerie - Nadezhda Pavlova - won in the opera/female role category. For the Perm "La Traviata" Robert Wilson was recognized as the best work of a lighting designer in musical theater.

The second opera that deservedly received the title of best and won in the opera/play category was Rodelinda, a joint production of two largest theaters: Bolshoi Theater and English National Opera, Bolshoi premiere 2015. Baroque music under the direction of the sensitive and insightful conductor Christopher Moulds was able not only to charm the audience of the Bolshoi Theater, but also to leave the competition jury not indifferent. For the production of this opera, Richard Jones received the award in the opera/director category.

Other opera premieres of the past year did not go without awards: Liparit Avetisyan became the best in the opera/actor category for the role of Chevalier des Grieux in the opera “Manon” at the Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Ethel Ioshpa became the winner in the category of work of an artist in musical theater for the opera “Salome”, included in the repertoire of the Moscow “New Opera”.

“Another Ural city shone in the field of ballet - Yekaterinburg, paired with St. Petersburg”

The best ballet was the Yekaterinburg ballet “Romeo and Juliet” by Vyacheslav Samodurov, which reimagined the Shakespearean drama. Igor Bulytsyn was awarded the title of best male dancer for the role of Mercutio in this production. The works of V. Samodurov were twice appreciated at the festival: for his direction of the second ballet “Ondine”, set to the music of Hans Werner Henze, which is difficult to perceive and perform, the prize in the ballet/conductor category went to Pavel Klinichev (the only nominee in this category, the intrigue remained only in the name of the ballet for which the conductor received the award).