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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TASS DOSSIER. On March 27, 2018, a solemn ceremony of presenting the Golden Mask awards in the honorary nomination “For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art in Russia” will take place in Moscow.

"Golden Mask" is a Russian national theater award and festival. According to the regulations of the award, its goal is to preserve and develop the traditions of Russian theater, identify the best creative works, theatrical authors and performers, identify trends in the modern theatrical process, etc.

Story

The Golden Mask Award was established in 1993 by the Union of Theater Workers of Russia on the initiative and with the participation of its chairman, People's Artist of the USSR Mikhail Ulyanov.

Initially, the Golden Mask was conceived as a Moscow festival. The first prize presentation took place at the Maly Theater on March 13, 1995. Only Moscow performances took part in the competition. Five nominations were presented: best performance, best director and artist, performers of female and male roles, as well as awards in the field of musical theater and “For Honor and Dignity”.

In 1996, the Golden Mask acquired nationwide status. The nomination structure was changed: award winners were determined separately in four categories (among drama, opera, ballet and puppet productions). Subsequently, the category “Operetta/musical” was singled out, and the nominations “Criticism Prize”, “Innovation”, “For support of the theatrical art of Russia”, “For the best foreign performance shown in Russia”, etc. were established.

The location of the Golden Mask award ceremonies has changed several times. They took place at the Maly Theater (1995, 1996, 2000), the Evgeni Vakhtangov Theater (1997), the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater (1998), the Bolshoi Theater (1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014), the Mossovet (2001, 2005), Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko (2007-2009, 2013, 2015-2017), Moscow Gostiny Dvor (2010, 2011). In 2003, the ceremony was held outside of Moscow for the only time: in honor of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, the Mariinsky Theater was chosen as the venue for the event.

Participation procedure

Any theater group in Russia has the right to take part in the selection if it sends an application to the Golden Mask directorate within the prescribed time frame. All received applications are considered by two expert councils (drama theater and puppet theater; musical theater), which determine the list of award nominees.

The annual awards ceremony is preceded by the Golden Mask festival, during which performances nominated for the award are shown. The winners are determined by secret ballot by the festival jury. It consists of two separate commissions: in competitions for drama theater and puppet theater performances; in musical theater performance competitions. The jury is formed from a number of leading theatrical figures: actors, directors, critics, etc. As a rule, each jury commission includes about 15 people.

Reward

The winners at the ceremony are awarded a prize - a mask in a square frame, made according to a sketch by the set designer, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Oleg Sheintsis. According to the artist, when creating the award, he thought “about the fascinating, dangerous theatrical performance... Theater is a mystery. The mask is its symbol... The Venetian carnival with a Venetian woman under the mask is my ideal theater.” Therefore, Oleg Sheintsis took the mask of the Venetian carnival as a basis, adding to it an element of Russian state symbols - the double-headed eagle.

The first "Masks" were made by the artist himself. Subsequently, Sheintsis himself became a prize winner twice - for his work on the play “The Seagull” (Lenkom, 1996) and “The Love for Three Oranges” (Bolshoi Theatre, 1998).

Other projects

In addition to the festival and award ceremony, the Golden Mask directorate organizes touring activities and implements, together with the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the program “The best performances in the cities of Russia and the Baltic countries.” Other projects of the Golden Mask include showing the best Russian performances to foreign theater workers “Russian Case”, non-competition programs “Mask Plus”, “Children’s Weekend”, etc.

Since 2006, the project “Golden Mask in Latvia” has been operating, within the framework of which 30 theaters from Moscow, St. Petersburg and other Russian cities visited the Baltic state. More than 60 performances were shown as part of the project. In 2017, the show took place in Riga, Ventspils and Liepaja.

Laureates

The winners in competitive categories over the years were directors Pyotr Fomenko, Lev Dodin, Yuri Butusov, actors Natalya Tenyakova, Oleg Tabakov, Konstantin Raikin, Sergei Yursky, Alisa Freindlikh, Evgeny Mironov, conductor Valery Gergiev, ballet dancers Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Diana Vishneva and others famous cultural figures.

At various times, the best dramatic performances of “large form” were recognized as “Rothschild’s Violin” (Moscow Theater for Young Spectators), “Three Sisters” (P. N. Fomenko Workshop Theatre, Moscow), “The Imaginary Ill” (Maly Theatre, Moscow) , "The Seagull" (Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg), "Shukshin's Stories" (Theater of Nations, Moscow), "Untitled" (Russian State Academic Theater named after F. Volkov, Yaroslavl), "The Cherry Orchard" (Academic Maly Drama Theater theater - Theater of Europe, St. Petersburg), etc.

Organizers

Currently, the organization and holding of the "Golden Mask" is carried out by the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Moscow government, as well as the festival directorate. Since 2002, the general sponsor of the award has been Sberbank of Russia. The president of the Golden Mask award and festival in 1993-2017 was theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Georgy Taratorkin (1945-2017). Since March 2017, the festival and award have been headed by People's Artist of the Russian Federation Igor Kostolevsky. The general director of the autonomous non-profit organization "Golden Mask Festival" is Maria Revyakina.

"Golden Mask" - 2017

While working on forming the list of nominees, experts looked at 939 performances staged in more than a hundred Russian cities. The 23rd Golden Mask festival was held in Moscow in February - April 2017. The final list of nominees included 28 dramatic performances of “large” and “small” forms, 13 operas, five ballets, nine contemporary dance performances, four performances in the operetta/musical genre and eight puppet shows. These productions were performed in theaters in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Perm, Norilsk, Voronezh, Khabarovsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Ufa, Samara, Astrakhan, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Kostroma, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Petrozavodsk, Tomsk and other cities.

The chairman of the jury of the drama theater and puppet theater was People's Artist of the Russian Federation, artistic director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Alexey Borodin, the chairman of the jury of the musical theater was People's Artist of the Russian Federation, artistic director of the St. Petersburg Concert Sergei Stadler.

The award ceremony took place on April 19, 2017 at the Musical Theater named after K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

The best dramatic performance of “large form” was recognized as the production “Russian Novel” (Vl. Mayakovsky Theater, Moscow), “small form” - “Magadan/Cabaret” (Theater “Near the Stanislavsky House”, Moscow), best opera - " Rodelinda" (Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow), the best ballet - "Romeo and Juliet" (Opera and Ballet Theatre, Yekaterinburg). The production “All Paths Lead North” (Ballet Moscow Theatre, Moscow) was awarded as the best performance of modern dance, “Bindyuzhnik and the King” (Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk) became the best performance in the genre of “Operetta/musical”, “Kolino” composition" (producing center "KontArt", St. Petersburg) - the best puppet show.

Awards in the honorary nomination "For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art in Russia" were given to Oleg Tabakov and Vladimir Etush (Moscow), Irina Bogacheva and Nikolai Marton (St. Petersburg), Aigum Aigumov (Makhachkala), Andrey Borisov (Yakutsk), Georgy Kotov (Omsk) and Rezo Gabriadze (Tbilisi, Georgia).

"Golden Mask" - 2018

On February 5, 2018, the general director of the Golden Mask, Maria Revyakina, announced that the award would hold two award ceremonies for the first time in its history. The first of them will take place on March 27 in the Beethoven Hall of the Bolshoi Theater. For the first time, it will separately honor the laureates of the award in the honorary nomination “For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art in Russia.” These included Moscow (actors Vladimir Andreev, Valentin Gaft, Alexander Shirvindt, Alla Pokrovskaya and Galina Anisimova) and St. Petersburg (choreographer Nikolai Boyarchikov, actor Ivan Krasko, actor and director Vladimir Recepter) masters, as well as theater workers from other cities of the country: artist Anatoly Gladnev (Voronezh), director Yuri Bure-Nebelsen (Kursk), actresses Alla Zhuravleva (Murmansk) and Vera Kuzmina (Cheboksary). Their names were announced earlier, in December 2017.

While working on forming the main list of nominees, experts reviewed 832 performances staged in more than a hundred Russian cities. The 24th Golden Mask festival takes place in Moscow from February 6 to April 15, 2018. The final list of nominees included 29 dramatic performances of “large” and “small” forms, nine operas, seven ballets, seven contemporary dance performances, five performances in the operetta/musical genre and five puppet shows. These productions were performed in theaters in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Krasnodar, Khabarovsk, Omsk, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Voronezh, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Makhachkala, Penza, Kostroma and other cities.

The chairman of the jury of the drama theater and puppet theater is the Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, head of the department of history of foreign theater of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts - GITIS Alexey Bartoshevich, the chairman of the jury of the musical theater is People's Artist of the Russian Federation, chief conductor of the St. Petersburg State Children's Musical Theater "Through the Looking Glass" Pavel Bubelnikov .

The award ceremony for the winners in the main categories will take place on April 15 at the New Stage of the Bolshoi 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.

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.

Evgenia Smirnova was recognized as the best dramatic artist for her role in the play “Russian Novel” at the Mayakovsky Theater. Danila Kozlovsky became a laureate in the category “Best Actor in a Large Formal Drama” for his role as Hamlet in the MDT – Theater of Europe play of the same name.

Conductor Teodor Currentzis also won the National Theater Award “Golden Mask” 2017 for his work on the opera “La Traviata”. In the “Modern Dance” category, the performance “All Roads Lead North” was recognized as the best.

Full list of laureates:

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/PERFORMANCE

BINDYUSHNIK AND THE KING, Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/CONDUCTOR’S WORK

Andrey ALEXEEV, “White. Petersburg", Musical Comedy Theatre, St. Petersburg

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Roman FEODORI, “Bindyuzhnik and the King”, Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/FEMALE ROLE

Maria BIORK, Sonya, “Crime and Punishment”, Musical Theatre, Moscow

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/MALE ROLE

Victor KRIVONOS, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, “White. Petersburg", Musical Comedy Theatre, St. Petersburg

OPERETTA-MUSICAL/BEST SUPPORTING ROLE

Vladimir GALCHENKO, Prince of Serpukhov, “The Story of a Horse”, Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky, Samara

BALLET/PERFORMANCE

ROMEO AND JULIET, Opera and Ballet Theater, Ekaterinburg

CONTEMPORARY DANCE/PERFORMANCE

ALL ROUTES LEAD TO THE NORTH, Ballet Moscow Theater, Moscow

BALLET/CONDUCTOR'S WORK

Pavel KLINICHEV, “Ondine”, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

BALLET–MODERN DANCE/ WORK OF A CHOREOGRAPHER–CHOREOGRAPHER

Anton PIMONOV, “Violin Concerto No. 2”, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

BALLET–MODERN DANCE/FEMALE ROLE

Victoria TERESHKINA, “Violin Concerto No. 2”, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

BALLET–MODERN DANCE/MALE ROLE

Igor BULYTSYN, Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ekaterinburg

OPERA/PLAY

RODELINDA, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

OPERA/CONDUCTOR'S WORK

Theodor KURENTZIS, La Traviata, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

OPERA/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Richard JONES, Rodelinda, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

OPERA/FEMALE ROLE

Nadezhda PAVLOVA, Violetta Valeri, “La Traviata”, Opera and Ballet Theater. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

OPERA/MALE ROLE

Liparit AVETISYAN, Chevalier des Grieux, “Manon”, Musical Theater named after. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Moscow

WORK OF A COMPOSER IN MUSICAL THEATER

Eduard ARTEMYEV, “Crime and Punishment”, Musical Theatre, Moscow

SPECIAL MUSICAL THEATER JURY AWARDS

Performance “the_Marusya”, Dialogue Dance Company, Kostroma

Performance “Hercules”, Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater, Ufa

ARTIST'S WORK IN MUSICAL THEATER

Ethel IOSHPA, “Salome”, New Opera Theatre, Moscow

WORK OF A COSTUME DESIGNER IN MUSICAL THEATER

Elena TURCHANINOVA, “The Snow Maiden”, “Old House” theater, Novosibirsk

WORK OF A LIGHTING DESIGNER IN A MUSICAL THEATER

Robert WILSON, La Traviata, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

DRAMA/ARTIST'S WORK

Nikolai ROSCHIN, “The Raven”, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/COSTUME DESIGNER

Elena SOLOVIOVA, “Ship of Fools”, Gran Theater, Novokuibyshevsk

DRAMA/LIGHTING DESIGNER

Alexander MUSTONEN, “Bald Cupid”, Moscow Theater for Young Spectators

COMPETITION "EXPERIMENT"

THE SNOW Maiden, Theater "Old House", Novosibirsk

DOLLS/PERFORMANCE

KOLINO ESSAY, Producer center "KontArt", St. Petersburg

PUPPETS/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Natalya PAKHOMOVA, “The Tale with Closed Eyes “Hedgehog in the Fog””, Moscow Puppet Theater

DOLLS/ARTIST'S WORK

Victor ANTONOV, “Iron”, Puppet Theater of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk

DOLLS/ACTOR'S WORK

Anna SOMKINA, Alexander BALSANOV, “Kolino’s composition”, Producer center “KontArt”, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/PLAY OF LARGE FORM

RUSSIAN NOVEL, Theater named after. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

DRAMA/ SMALL FORM PERFORMANCE

MAGADAN/CABARET, Theater "Near Stanislavsky's House", Moscow

DRAMA/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Andrey MOGUCHIY, “The Thunderstorm”, Bolshoi Drama Theatre. G.A. Tovstonogov, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/FEMALE ROLE

Evgenia SIMONOVA, Sofya Tolstaya, “Russian Novel”, Theater named after. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

DRAMA/MALE ROLE

Danila KOZLOVSKY, Hamlet, “Hamlet”, Maly Drama Theater – Theater of Europe, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/SUPPORTING ROLE

Elena NEMZER, Pantaloon, “The Raven”, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/MALE SUPPORTING ROLE

Holger MUNZENMAIER, Deacon, “Once upon a time,” Drama Theatre, Sharypovo

DRAMA/WORK OF PLAYWRIGHT

Marius IVASKEVIČIUS, “Russian Novel”, Theater named after. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

SPECIAL PRIZES OF THE JURY OF DRAMA AND PUPPET THEATER

Acting ensemble of actors in the play “Three Sisters”, Red Torch Theater, Novosibirsk

Igor Volkov, Vitaly Kovalenko, Elena Vozhakina - actors in the play “Beyond the Curtain”, Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg

AWARD "FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEATER ARTS"

Aigum AIGUMOV, artistic director of the Dagestan Musical and Drama Theater named after. A.P. Salavatova, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the State Prize of the Government of the Republic of Dagestan.

Irina BOGACHEVA, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater, People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the USSR State Prize, Laureate of the Highest Theater Award of St. Petersburg "Golden Sofit" "For outstanding contribution to the theatrical culture of St. Petersburg."

Andrey BORISOV, theater and film artist, director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Altai Republic.

Rezo GABRIADZE, Georgian film director and screenwriter, playwright, artist, sculptor, artistic director of the Tbilisi Puppet Theater.

Georgy KOTOV, actor and director of the Omsk Musical Theatre, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Nikolai MARTON, actor of the Alexandrinsky Theater, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Oleg TABAKOV, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov, People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

Vladimir ETUSH, actor of the Theater named after. Evg. Vakhtangov, People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the Theater School named after. B. Shchukina.

PRIZE “FOR SUPPORT OF THE THEATER ARTS OF RUSSIA”

Charitable Foundation "Art, Science and Sports"

MOSCOW, April 19 – RIA Novosti. 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 - 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 solemn ceremony was attended by the director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, the famous theater director Robert Sturua, the chief 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 of the award 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 of the Maly Drama Theater Lev Dodin, who has some power, strength, inner drama not to stage Hamlet in a comfortable form, but to ask questions in it, which today one 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 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 best actress in an 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 opera - Liparit Avetisyan for Chevalier des Grieux in the operetta Manon at the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre. 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 nomination "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.

The “Golden Mask” for the best male role in this category was awarded to Viktor Krivonos for his role in the play “White. Petersburg” at 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 of 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 Bolshoi Theater's play "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 Theatre. 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.

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.”