This year a record number of performances of all genres competed for it. The final list of nominees included theater productions from different cities of Russia: 28 dramatic performances, 13 operas, 5 ballets and 9 modern dance performances, 4 performances in the operetta/musical genre, as well as 8 puppet shows.

Danila Kozlovsky was recognized as the best dramatic actor for the role of Hamlet at the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg. Actress Evgenia Simonova, who played Sofia Tolstoy in the play “Russian Novel” at the Mayakovsky Theater, also received recognition. The same performance received the third “Mask” as the best performance of a large form, and in the “Small form” section the performance “Magadan/cabaret” of the Moscow theater “Near the Stanislavsky House” was noted.

The best director in a drama, as last year, was Andrei Moguchiy - he received an award for the play “The Thunderstorm” at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. The prize 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 for best male role went to Holger Münzenmayer (Deacon in the play “Once upon a time” at the Sharypovo Drama Theatre).

The best performance in the operetta-musical was “The Binder and the King” of the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators, Roman Feodori was awarded as the best director for this performance. For the best actress in a musical operetta, Maria Biork, who played Sonya in the play “Crime and Punishment” (Musical Theatre), received the award.

The award for best actor in this category went to Viktor Krivonos for his role in the play “White. Petersburg" (Musical Comedy Theatre, St. Petersburg). The best supporting role in the operetta-musical was played by Vladimir Galchenko from the Drama Theater in Samara.

Golden Mask Award. Photo: mdt-dodin.ru

Golden Mask Award. Photo: justmedia.ru

Golden Mask Award. Photo: kino-teatr.ru

Romeo and Juliet, staged at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, was recognized as the best ballet performance. The award for best actor was given to Igor Bulytsyn, who danced in the play Mercutio. The best conductor was Pavel Klinichev - he received a prize for his work “Ondine” to the music of Hans Werner Henze (Bolshoi Theater). Victoria Tereshkina played the best female role in the Mariinsky Theater performance “Violin Concerto No. 2”. For the same performance, Anton Pimonov was also awarded in the category “Best work by a choreographer/choreographer.” The award in the category “Best Performance in Contemporary Dance” went to the work “All Roads Lead to the North” (Ballet Moscow Theatre).

The best conductor in opera was Theodor Currentzis with the performance of “La Traviata” at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm. Richard Jones was recognized as the best director (opera Rodelinda, Bolshoi Theatre). The award in the category “Best Opera Performance” also went to “Rodelinda”. The award for best actress in opera was given to Nadezhda Pavlova (Violetta in La Traviata at the Perm Opera), and the award for best male role went to Liparit Avetisyan (Chevalier des Grieux in Manon at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow). In the nomination “Best Work of a Composer in Musical Theatre” the award was won by Eduard Artemyev for “Crime and Punishment” of the Moscow Musical Theater.

In the “puppet” nominations, the best work of the director was recognized as the play “Hedgehog in the Fog” by the Moscow Puppet Theater, staged by Natalya Pakhomova, and the best production was “Kolino’s Work” by the St. Petersburg Center “CounterArt”.

At the end of the ceremony, awards “For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Theater Arts” were presented - they were received by

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.

This 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. It was also recognized as the best opera. But the opera conductor of the year, as expected, was the conductor, artistic director of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. Tchaikovsky Teodor Currentzis. He is called a musical genius. This is 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 the 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 the greatest writers, you simply have no right to do anything bad.

You can see some of the Golden Mask nominees and winners in the best Russian films and TV series on the website

2017 Golden Mask Award Winners in Ballet/Modern Dance

April 19 on the stage of the Musical Theater named after. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko held the 23rd award ceremony "Golden Mask" 2017. The director of the ceremony was Nina Chusova, artist - Ksenia Peretrukhina, and the choreographer - Alexander Andriyashkin. The ceremony was attended by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, the " New ballet", artists of the Bolshoi Theater mime ensemble and Konstantin Chelkaev. The hosts of the evening are artists Anna Chipovskaya And Sergey Epishev.

The best ballet was the Yekaterinburg " Romeo and Juliet» Vyacheslav Samodurov.

Became the best dancer Igor Bulytsyn- he received a prize for the role of Mercutio in this ballet.

Best performance of modern dance - " All roads lead north"Ballet Moscow Theater (choreography by Karin Pontjes).

Best choreographer Anton Pimonov— he received the Mask for Violin Concerto No. 2, staged at the Mariinsky Theater.

Became the best dancer Victoria Tereshkina, who performed the role in Pimonov’s ballet.

Conductor Pavel Klinichev received a prize for ballet " Undine" (Big theater).

The work received a special prize from the Musical Theater Jury The_Marusya dance company Dialogue Dance (Kostroma), choreography by Alexander Andriyashkin.

Photo: Dozado, courtesy of Golden Mask

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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.

This 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. It was also recognized as the best opera. But the opera conductor of the year, as expected, was the conductor, artistic director of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. Tchaikovsky Teodor Currentzis. He is called a musical genius. This is 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 the 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 the greatest writers, you simply have no right to do anything bad.

You can see some of the Golden Mask nominees and winners in the best Russian films and TV series on the website

Among the just announced Golden Mask winners in various categories, there are so many St. Petersburg residents that the city can be congratulated: ballet, puppets, musicals, drama - everything, as it turns out, is the best here. But the nuances of the preferences of the high jury make us wary and think about the future with some anxiety. The results are so predictable and understandable from the layouts that it is obvious: the winners were not chosen by the jury as such, but by its “internal censor”, who did not make strategic mistakes in the first place.

First, let’s name (and congratulate) those who are bringing the “Golden Masks” to the city. In fact, the Grand Prix in the “Puppet Theater” section went to the play “Kolino’s Work” by St. Petersburg director Yana Tumina, which appeared as a project of the independent production company “KontArt” (for which we should be especially happy) with the support of the “Puppet Format” theater (to which we have special respect) . This performance is not only excellent in terms of the quality of production and the level of theatrical text, it is also, as they say, socially responsible: it is based on the book by artist Sergei Golyshev “My Son is Down,” but without a single sentimental note, without bad pathos and opportunistic pedaling the theme of “special people/children”. This is high lyricism for family viewing. Participants in the play Anna Somkina and Alexander Balsanov were separately awarded as best actors.

Things weren’t going well with the opera today—Moscow and Perm shared the prizes. But in the field of ballet, we are still the best and still thanks to the efforts of the Mariinsky Theater: the director of the ballet “Violin Concerto No. 2” after Prokofiev, Anton Pimonov, was named the best choreographer, and the impeccable Victoria Tereshkina was named the best ballet actress.

As for the music/musical performance nomination, the St. Petersburgers have two prizes: Andrei Alekseev was named best conductor, and Viktor Krivonos was named best actor. Both - for their work in Gennady Trostyanetsky’s play “White. Petersburg" of the St. Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy.

As for the dramatic nominations, they are, as usual, the most intriguing and populous. Here among the winners is the artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. G.A. Tovstonogov Andrey Moguchiy, for the second year receiving an award as the best dramatic director: now - for “The Thunderstorm” according to Ostrovsky, cleared of vulgar social “school” interpretations of the characters, turned into a terrible fairy tale told through the means of folklore fair theater - homage a century later, the innovator Meyerhold was noted by all critics without exception.

Also among the laureates in the “Drama” section is Nikolai Roshchin, an artist and director of the play “The Raven” in Alexandrinka. Awarded as an artist and on merit. In this yet another terrible fairy tale (this time Italian, in Gozzi's adaptation), Roshchin drew everything - and even the new faces of the actors: similar gutta-percha masks change the performers beyond recognition, actually depriving them of individual facial expressions (the totalitarian world demands this). But you can’t hide Elena Nemzer under any guise, whose sharp, grotesque gift (she played the female version of Pantalone - Signor Pantalone) manifested itself here almost more strongly than in other performances - so “The Mask” turned out to be her as the best dramatic supporting actress where it suits you.

Two more “Masks” also went to Alexandrinka. One is a special jury prize for the “love triangle” Vershinin - Masha - Kulygin from the play “Beyond the Curtain” (an extreme fantasy by Andriy Zholdak based on “Three Sisters”, requiring courage and dedication from the actors): respectively, Igor Volkov - Alena Vozhakina - Vitaly Kovalenko . The second, out-of-competition, goes to Nikolay Marton “For his outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art” (let us recall that a year ago this phenomenal actor took the stage for “The Mask” in the nomination “Best Dramatic Supporting Actor” - for the role of the Unknown, played with jewelry and scale and , God willing, will rise again and again).

The Third Federal Drama Theater also did not go without an award: the only “Mask” was awarded to the play “Hamlet”, and it was received not by director Lev Dodin, but by the performer of the title role, Danila Kozlovsky. And this is precisely an example of the cunning of judges who had to pronounce a verdict in troubled times. In general, it was obviously impossible for the jury to ignore Dodin’s performance, and, it seems, awarding the main artist is not a bad idea. But the problem is that Dodin designed the play so boldly and according to such radical laws that it can either be completely accepted or completely rejected. This is a world invented to the last nail by Dodin in counterpoint with Shakespeare, this is harsh anti-humanism - a value system in which the artist Kozlovsky, like all other actors, perform the tasks of a master, precise to the millimeter, on the verge of a foul. Perhaps this is not Dodin’s best performance in terms of integrity and perfection of form, but it is fully “a journey into the unknown,” a search for something new, without which no creativity can be called such. But the fact of the matter is that the new, radical, extreme, provocative (and “Hamlet” from beginning to end is a desperate provocation, blows to the gut and other pain points in a maddened world) is not in trend today. Today, in order to avoid troubles from one or another “watcher of culture,” it is necessary to reward something that is understandable, transparent, and decent, at least in appearance (cultural ministers-administrators are not much of a reader of hidden meanings, so the front in an aesthetic package is passing for now).

By and large, three performances could compete for the main prize in drama - “Best Performance” - in terms of scale and level of understanding of the existential problems of our time: “The Thunderstorm” by Moguchy, “Hamlet” by Dodin and “Three Sisters” by Timofey Kulyabin. At the same time, it was clear that Kulyabin with “Tannhäuser” had a history of being a bad match for the main “Mask” of the season. I even imagined a wonderful picture - how Moguchiy or Dodin, having received the Grand Prix (and each of these masters of “Masks” already has more than five), solemnly transfers his award to a younger comrade, while the audience gives a standing ovation. Actually, after Kulyabin’s “Three Sisters”, where the sisters communicate in the language of the deaf and dumb (today’s society does not hear educated and cultured people, you can’t argue), were selected for the program of the Vienna Theater Weeks and experienced a real triumph among the sophisticated public there, “The Mask ” could be given to this young theater author without looking. But the only thing the jury was able to do for Kulyabin was to offer a special prize, and even then not to him, but to the acting ensemble of the play (Kulyabin’s name is not in the wording of the special prize, you can check on the “Masks” website). And this is another decision behind which there is iron calculation. And the Grand Prix went to a performance that was not so much outstanding as correct: “Russian Novel” by Mindaugas Karbauskis - a story about Leo Tolstoy with the main character Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya performed by Evgenia Simonova. Here we must admit that the Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaskevicius wrote an elegant, intelligent play about the characteristics of the national family (Russian, of course), and his personal “Mask” is the only award in this case that does not raise any questions.

However, it was not possible to keep what is called a “good face” everywhere. The Golden Mask looks like a real embarrassment to Bob Wilson, a director from the USA who had a reputation as one of the best directors in the world, when not all the jury members were even born. So Wilson (attention) managed to be awarded as “Best Lighting Designer in Musical Theatre.” For those who are not in the know: working with light, which Wilson spends more than 300 hours on for each new production, is one of the key substantive discoveries of his directing, but he made it several decades ago. Last year, let me remind you, Wilson staged “Pushkin’s Tales” at the Theater of Nations with Yevgeny Mironov in the role of Pushkin. And how right the theater was when it refused on principle to be nominated for “The Mask.”

However, the list of nominated directors this year reached almost thirty people. And this, on the one hand, greatly increases the rating of the winner, Andrei Moguchy, and on the other hand, it smacks of absurdity. There was a place for almost everyone more or less worthy, but there was no place for Kirill Serebrennikov and Konstantin Bogomolov. Well, if you, gentlemen, have nominated so many young people, then let the public learn at least one new name. Well, yes, let’s say that there are few performances that can compare with “The Thunderstorm” - and the furor of the performance during the capital’s showings confirmed this. But the jury could have disposed of the special prizes differently. It could, but walking along the beaten paths is, of course, safer. Safer.

And, of course, this “Mask” revealed not only national diseases, but also the problems of “our Vasyuki”. With all due respect, facts are stubborn things. Federal theaters operating in St. Petersburg bring a harvest of “Masks” every year, and for all the city’s seasons the Musical Comedy is in charge (other theaters not only did not become laureates, but were not even nominated). Apparently, without tangible changes the situation in theatrical St. Petersburg cannot be changed for the better.

Zhanna Zaretskaya, Fontanka.ru