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This year a record number of performances of all genres competed for it. The final list of nominees includes performances by theaters from different cities of Russia: 28 drama performances, 13 operas, 5 ballets and 9 performances of contemporary dance, 4 performances in the genre of "operetta / musical", as well as 8 puppet performances.

Danila Kozlovsky was recognized as the best dramatic actor for the role of Hamlet in the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg. The actress Evgenia Simonova, who played Sophia Tolstaya in the play "Russian Novel" by the Mayakovsky Theater, also received recognition. The same performance received the third "Mask" as the best performance of large form, and in the section "Small form" the performance "Magadan / Cabaret" of the Moscow theater "Near Stanislavsky's House" was noted.

The best director in a drama, like last year, was Andrey Moguchy - he received an award for the play "The Thunderstorm" at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. The prize for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Drama went to Elena Nemzer from the Alexandrinsky Theater for her role as Pantalone in the production of The Raven, and for Best Male - to Holger Munzenmeier (Deacon in the play Once Upon a Time at the Sharypovo Drama Theater).

The best performance in an operetta-musical was "The Bindyuzhnik and the King" of the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators, as the best director for this performance was awarded to Roman Feodori. For Best Actress in a Musical Operetta, Maria Biork received an award for her role as Sonya in the play Crime and Punishment (Musical Theater).

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

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The best performance in the ballet was Romeo and Juliet, staged at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater. The award for the best male role was received by Igor Bulytsyn, who danced in the play Mercutio. The best conductor was Pavel Klinichev - he was awarded the prize for his work "Ondine" to music by Hans Werner Henze (Bolshoi Theater). Victoria Tereshkina played Best Actress in the Mariinsky Theater play Violin Concerto No. 2. For the same performance, Anton Pimonov was also awarded in the nomination "Best choreographer / choreographer". The award in the nomination "Best Performance in Contemporary Dance" was awarded to the work "All Paths Lead to the North" (Ballet Moscow Theater).

The best conductor in the opera was Teodor Currentzis with the play La Traviata at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm. Richard Jones was named the best director (opera Rodelinda, Bolshoi Theater). The award for Best Opera Performance also went to Rodelinde. The award for Best Actress in an Opera went to Nadezhda Pavlova (Violetta in La Traviata by the Perm Opera), and for Best Actor - Liparit Avetisyan (Chevalier des Grieux in Manon of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow). In the nomination "The best work of a composer in a musical theater" the award was won by Eduard Artemiev - 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 Natalia Pakhomova, and the best production was "Kolino's work" by the St. Petersburg center "KontrArt".

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

On the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Musical Theater (MAMT), the Golden Mask theater award ceremony began. The final list of nominees for this season includes 28 drama performances of "large" and "small" form, 13 operas, five ballets and nine performances of contemporary dance, four performances in the genre of operetta / musical, and eight puppet shows.

The Bindyuzhnik and the King (Theater of the Young Spectator, Krasnoyarsk) became the laureate of the award in the nomination "Best Performance in a Musical Operetta". The best female role in an operetta-musical was played by Maria Biork - she was awarded for her role as Sonya in the play "Crime and Punishment" (Musical Theater). The award for Best Actor in this category was given to Viktor Krivonos for his role in the play “Bely. Petersburg "(Theater of Musical Comedy, St. Petersburg). The best supporting role in an operetta-musical was played by Vladimir Galchenko from the Drama Theater in Samara. The best director in this category was Roman Feodori from the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk, and the conductor was Andrei Alekseev from the Theater of Musical Comedy in St. Petersburg.

The best performance in the ballet was named “Romeo and Juliet”, staged at the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg. The Best Actor Award went to Igor, who played Mercutio in this production. The best conductor was Pavel Klinichev - he was awarded the prize for his work "Ondine" to music by Hans Werner Henze (Bolshoi Theater, Moscow). Victoria Tereshkina played the best female role in the play "Violin Concerto No. 2" (Mariinsky Theater, St. Petersburg), Anton Pimonov received an award for the same performance in the nomination "Best Choreographer / Choreographer". The award in the nomination "Best Performance in Contemporary Dance" was awarded to the work "All Paths Lead to the North" (Ballet Moscow Theater).

The award as the best conductor in opera was given to Teodor Currentzis for his performance La Traviata at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm. Best Director was Richard Jones (Rodelinda, Bolshoi Theater). The award for Best Opera Performance also went to Rodelinde. The award for the best female role in the opera went to Nadezhda Pavlova (Violetta Valerie in La Traviata of the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm), and for the best male role - Liparit Avetisyan for (Chevalier des Grieux in the operetta Manon of the Stanislavsky Musical Theater and Nemirovich-Danchenko in Moscow). Eduard Artemiev won the award in the nomination "The best work of a composer in musical theater".

Danila Kozlovsky was named Best Drama Actor for his role as Hamlet in the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg. The best dramatic actress was Evgenia Simonova, who played Sophia Tolstaya in the play "Russian Novel" by the Mayakovsky Theater. Andrey Moguchy became the best director for the second year in a row - he was awarded for the play "The Thunderstorm" at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. The prize for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama was won by Elena Nemzer from the Alexandrinsky Theater for her role as Pantaloons in the production of The Raven, and for Best Male - by Holgen Münzenmeier (Deacon in Once Upon a Time by the Sharypovo Drama Theater).

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent greetings to the participants, organizers and guests of the award ceremony. The head of state noted the contribution of the "Golden Mask" in support of theaters, expressed confidence that the presentation of the award would provide the participants with an opportunity to discuss current problems and exchange accumulated experience. Also, Mr. Putin congratulated the laureates on their well-deserved success and wished all those present good luck and inspiration for the implementation of their plans and ideas.

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The 23rd Golden Mask All-Russian Theater Award ceremony has come to an end.

The next "Golden Mask" is awarded to Vladimir Etush, at the moment when the artist appeared on the stage - the whole audience stood up to greet the artist. Also, for his contribution to the development of theatrical art, the artistic director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, People's Artist of the USSR, Oleg Tabakov was awarded.

The prize is awarded to People's Artist of the RSFSR, Nikolai Marton, as well as People's Artist of the USSR, opera singer - Irina Bogacheva.

People's Artist of Russia, Andrei Savvich Borisov is also awarded a special prize. And, finally, the "Golden Mask" is awarded to Rezo Gabriadze, who, unfortunately, could not come, and therefore a video message from him is played on the screen above the stage.

The Golden Mask is awarded to the actor and director Yevgeny Kotov, who passed away on March 21 this year.

Also, the award was presented to the artist Aygum Aygumovich. His "Golden Mask" will go to the Republic of Dagestan.

Ingeborga Dapkunaite and Igor Kostolevsky appeared on the stage to present the laureates with a special STD RF prize for their outstanding contribution to the development of art. During her speech, Dapkunaite noted that she did not consider the theater to be an “objective business”.

At the end of the ceremony, a special prize was awarded to the jury of the drama theater and puppet theater. A special prize was given to Timofey Kulyabin, director of the Novosibirsk Red Torch, as well as Igor Volkov, Vitaly Kovalenko and Elena Vozhakina - actors of the performance “On the Other Side of the Curtain” staged by Andriy Zholdak in Alexandrinka.

Finally, the winners were announced in the two most long-awaited nominations: Best Small Form Show - Magadan / Cabaret at the Near Stanislavsky House and Best Large Form Show at the Mayakovsky Theater.

During the presentation of the prize, the director of the theater said that the theater dedicates this Golden Mask, among other things, to Igor Kapustin, a lighting designer who passed away last year.

Marius Ivashkevicius for his work on "Russian Novel" at the Mayakovsky Theater received a prize in the nomination "Best Playwright".

For the best female role in the DRAMA nomination, the legendary Evgenia Simonova is awarded for her role as Sophia Tolstoy in The Russian Novel at the Mayakovsky Theater.

And the prize for the best directing this year was awarded to the artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater named after Tovstonogov - Andrey Moguchy for the play "The Thunderstorm" at the Bolshoi Drama Theater.

Danila Kozlovsky was awarded the Golden Mask in the Best Actor nomination for the role of Hamlet in the acclaimed production of Lev Dodin. On stage, the artist thanked his teacher and the director of the play.

In the nomination "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" Elena Nemzer is awarded for the role of Pantaloons in Nikolai Roshchin's "The Crow" at the Alexandrinsky Theater. The prize for Best Actor in a Supporting Role goes to Holger Münzenmeier for her role as Deacon in Once Upon a Time, presented by the Sharypovo Drama Theater.

Yevgeny Mironov and his partner in the film "Time of the First" Alexandra Ursulyak appear on the stage. And finally, the awards ceremony begins in the most anticipated DRAMA category. Yevgeny Mironov has just arrived from the filming of a film in which he plays the role of Lenin. On this occasion, he recalled one of his statements: “I know nothing better than Apassionata, I am ready to listen to it every day. Amazing, inhuman music. I am always proud, maybe naive, childish, I think: these are the kind of miracles people can do ... But often I can't listen to music, it gets on my nerves, I want to talk cute nonsense and stroke the heads of people who, living in a filthy hell can create such beauty. And today you cannot stroke anyone on the head - they will bite off your hand, and you have to hit them on the heads, beat mercilessly, although we, ideally, are against any violence against people. " On his own behalf, Mironov added that he is now observing how art workers have united and do not allow others to "beat themselves on the head."

Victor Antonov was chosen as the best artist in the DOLLS nomination for his work in the play "Iron" at the Puppet Theater of the Republic of Karelia. And Natalya Pakhomova receives the prize for the best director for the play “A Tale with Closed Eyes“ Hedgehog in the Fog ”at the Moscow Puppet Theater. However, Natalia herself was unable to attend the presentation of the award, since she is at the release of the play in another city, and the artistic director of the Moscow Puppet Theater received the award for her.

In the category of DOLLS, the awarding ceremony is carried out by Alexander Borok, chief director of the Chelyabinsk puppet theater and Maria Litvinova, one of the founders of the Trickster theater. Anna Somkina and Alexander Balsanov are awarded for the best work of an actor, who presented the play "Kolino's composition", jointly created by the Producer Center "KontArt" and the "Puppet Format" theater in St. Petersburg. Kolino's Composition was also awarded in the Best Performance category.

After the next performance, Marat Gatsalov and choreographer Vladimir Varnava appear on the stage, who will present prizes in the EXPERIMENT category. While Gatsalov is trying to explain something to Barnabas, he manages to run a large circle around the stage and continues to dance near the microphone. In the EXPERIMENT nomination, the victory was won by the play "Snow Maiden" of the Novosibirsk theater "Old House".

For the best work of a lighting designer, now in the DRAMA nomination, Alexander Mustonen is awarded for his work in the play "Bald Cupid" at the Moscow Theater for Young Spectators. Alexander dedicated the victory in the nomination to his mother, who passed away while working on the play.

Elena Solovieva was recognized as the best costume designer in the drama theater. And finally, Nikolai Roshchin received the Golden Mask for the best work of an artist in a drama.

The artists are awarded this year by Galya Solodovnikova and Alexander Shishkin. Robert Wilson was awarded for Best Lighting Design in the MUSIC THEATER nomination for the production of La Traviata at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater. Elena Turchaninova was recognized as the best costume designer in the musical theater for the play "Snow Maiden" at the Novosibirsk theater "Old House".

For the best work of the artist in the nomination, Ethel Ioshpa was awarded for the production of Salome at the New Opera Theater.

And finally, the Dialogue Dance Company received a special prize from the MUSIC THEATER jury. By the way, this is the third Golden Mask of Dialogue Dance; one of its founders, Evgeny Kulagin, came out for the award.

Petr Pospelov, the presenter of the awards in the nomination MUSICAL THEATER, enters the stage. “This is a fairly new nomination,” notes Pospelov.

In the nomination "Best Composer's Work" the prize goes to Eduard Artemyev for the play "Crime and Punishment", but the prize for him goes to the famous musician Sergei Stadler.

The best conductor was awarded to Teodor Currentzis, who was nominated this year for his production of La Traviata at the Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm. The conductor says that he is very glad that he is able to do what he is doing. He is happy to be a musician, but he strives to become better, both in music and in life. Currentzis congratulated the audience of the ceremony on the Easter holiday and wished everyone happiness. "Christ is Risen". The audience reacted vividly to the congratulations and replied: "Truly He is Risen."

The Bolshoi Theater's Rodelinda is awarded in the nomination for the best performance of an opera.

Liparit Avetisyan was awarded in the nomination for Best Actor for the performance of Chevalier des Grieux in the production of "Manon" at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. Richard Jones was awarded Best Director for his production of Rodelinda at the Bolshoi Theater.

The awarding ceremony for the OPERA category winners begins.

The winner in the nomination for the best female role, Nadezhda Pavlova, in addition to the prize, will receive a gift from Norilsk Nickel - a Nickel "mask" and a scarf with a northern theme. Pavlova received a prize for her role as Violetta Valerie in La Traviata at the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater.

During the break between the blocks, the participants of the "New Ballet" appear on the stage again.

And the best performance in the BALLET nomination was recognized as the production of the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater - “Romeo and Juliet”.

Not surprisingly, Pavel Klinichev receives the prize for the best work of conductor - he was the only nominee in the category. The conductor was awarded for the production of Ondine at the Bolshoi Theater. Anton Pimonov was awarded for the best work as a choreographer for his work on Violin Concerto No. 2 at the Mariinsky Theater. The prize for the best performance in the CONTEMPORARY DANCE category will be taken by the Moscow Ballet, which presented the production “All paths lead to the north” at the festival.

In the BALLET category, the prize for Best Actress is awarded to Victoria Tereshkina for her role in the play Violin Concerto No. 2 at the Mariinsky Theater. Igor Bulytsyn, who played the role of Mercutio in the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" in Yekaterinburg, was awarded in the nomination for Best Actor.

The block has been completed, and now the New Ballet is on stage with a laconic plastic performance performed in black and white. They were the ones who performed at the opening ceremony of the festival this year.

Finally, the prize for the best performance in the OPERETTA-MUSIC category goes to the Theater of the Young Spectator in Krasnoyarsk for the production of Theodore's The Bindyuzhnik and the King.

Roman Feodori was awarded for the best directorial work for the play "The Bindyuzhnik and the King" at the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators. Andrey Alekseev was recognized as the best conductor for his work on the production “Bely. Petersburg ".

Vladimir Galchenko wins Best Supporting Actor prize. Galchenko played the role of Prince Serpukhovsky in the play "The History of the Horse" at the Gorky Drama Theater in Samara.

And the prize for the best male role in the same category goes to Viktor Krivonos, who played the role of Apollo Apollonovich Ableukhov in the play “White. Petersburg ”of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater.

So, Lika Rulla and Dmitry Bogachev appear on the stage and the awarding ceremony in the OPERETTA-MUSIC nomination begins. The Best Actress Award went to Maria Biork for her role as Sonya in Crime and Punishment at the Musical Theater.

In her opening remarks before the ceremony, Maria Revyakina, general director of the festival, recalls Georgy Taratorkin. The memory of the recently deceased President of the Golden Mask Association was honored in the hall with a minute of silence. Revyakina notes that the current festival is the largest in terms of the number of performances. The jury finished its work only today at three o'clock in the morning.

Finally, the ceremony begins.

Two bells have already rung, and the guests are gradually settling down in the hall. At the moment, three circles hang over the stage - three talking heads, which are lamenting: “I beg you, I know this modern theater of yours. Strip naked and rejoice ... Where to get good directors. If I had my way, I would have given the stage to the directors only after forty ... ". These same heads remind everyone who goes on stage that “brevity is the sister of talent” and ask everyone to be laconic.

The 23rd Award Ceremony will begin very soon at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater

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Before that, experts of two councils, dramatic and musical, watched 936 premieres of the season all over Russia - from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean. In 2017, for the first time on such a scale, a very important all-Russian program "The Golden Mask in Cinema" was held: the ballet "Romeo and Juliet" staged by Vyacheslav Samodurov (Yekaterinburg Opera), "Life and Fate" by Lev Dodin, "The Thunderstorm" by Andrey Moguchy and "War and the world ”Petr Fomenko was seen in a live film broadcast by residents of 60 cities of the country.

At the opening of the premium ceremony, the hall of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater stood up in memory of Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin, the permanent president of the Golden Mask. A great actor and noble man, Georgy Taratorkin passed away on February 4, 2017.

The closing of "The Mask" traditionally begins with awards in the most unsettled (despite constant efforts to develop it) genre of Russian theater - operetta and musical. The jury named the musical by Roman Feodori "The Bindyuzhnik and the King" based on Babel's "Odessa Tales" (Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk) "Best Performance". The best performance in the genre "Contemporary dance" - "All paths lead to the north" "Ballet Moscow" (choreographer - Karin Ponies, to music by David Monceau (both - France). The jury's special prize was awarded to the performance "The Marusia" - performance choreographer Alexander Andriyashkin, artistic solo of the PR-manager of the dance company "Dialogue Dance" Marusya Sokolnikova (and this is the third "Mask" of the young troupe of contemporary dance from Kostroma!).

The jury recognized Romeo and Juliet as the best performance in the ballet by Vyacheslav Samodurov and the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater (Igor Bulytsyn - Mercutio in this production) received the ballet soloist's Mask. But 2017 has somewhat broken the already familiar trend - not all opera and ballet "Masks" went to the theaters of the Urals and Siberia. Two prizes were awarded to the performance of the Mariinsky Theater Violin Concerto No. 2 to music by Sergei Prokofiev: Victoria Tereshkina won the female ballet Mask -2017, the Best Choreographer award to Anton Pimonov.

A soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet since 1999, Pimonov presented his first original production in 2013. In less than 4 years, the theater's repertoire included 7 of his works.

The best conductor is Teodor Currentzis. Photo: RIA Novosti

Three Masks -2017 received Bob Wilson's La Traviata at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater: she was awarded for the role of Violetta Nadezhda Pavlova, a rising star of the theater (the second Nadezhda Pavlova on the Perm stage - this time not a ballet, but an opera one), "The" Mask "was received by Theodor Currentzis (the" Ural Athenian "went on stage not in a tailcoat, but in a rocker leather jacket - and turned to the parterre with the words:" Christ is Risen! ", And the audience quite amicably answered). Finally, the stage director himself, the largest director and stage designer of our time, Robert Wilson (USA), received the "Mask" of the lighting designer.

The best soloist was Liparit Avetisyan - Chevalier des Grieux in Manon of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater. The best opera of the season is Rodelinda by the Bolshoi Theater to music by G.F. Handel, and the best opera director is Richard Jones (Great Britain). Russian "Mask" -2017 has joined Jones' very long list of professional awards (only Laurence Olivier awards in this list - 7).

In the "Mask" -2017, the "wandering" nomination of the composer reappeared. According to the estimates of many theater professionals, there are more and more original new scores on the Russian stage: the stream does not dry out, and the nominations are clearly destined to become permanent. "Mask" -2017 was awarded to Eduard Artemiev for the musical "Crime and Punishment" (Musical Theater, Moscow). Among the nominees was Georgy Firtich with a synthetic score of Georgy Trostyanetsky's performance “Bely. Petersburg "(Theater of Musical Comedy, St. Petersburg) - not a staging of the novel" Petersburg ", but a free fantasy about the Neva capital in 1905 (suffice it to say that the long-suffering imperial couple at Trostyanetsky sings a duet at the footlights in a duet The girl sang in the church choir ... "). Among the nominees was Alexei Sergunin with the opera "Doctor Haas", staged by "Helikon". And Alexander Manotskov - with the minimalist and pagan virtuoso Snow Maiden (Old House Theater, Novosibirsk). Manotskov, the main cultural hero of the play, did not receive the "Mask" -2017 - but the "Snow Maiden" was awarded in the "Experiment" nomination.

Ethel Yoshpa, a student of Dmitry Krymov, a graduate of the Russian Academy of Theater Arts in 2008 (for her work on Salome by Richard Strauss at Novaya Opera), received the mask of a stage designer in a musical theater. The stage designer's mask in the drama was received by director Nikolai Roshchin - for the artistic design of his play "The Raven" at the Alexandrinsky Theater. (Gozzi's tale by Roshchin is magnificent and extremely gloomy: Prince Gennaro's ship is decorated with the skulls of brides who did not fit him, Smeraldin's little arap fills the scene with cranberry blood. And in the dark blue sky, magnificent and terrible art objects float, like a Star Wars armada, ready to land to the ground.)

In 2017, a special project was recognized as the best performance in the Puppet Theater: the performance by Yana Tumina "Kolino's composition" (Producer Center "KontArt", St. Petersburg). It is based on a book by the artist Sergei Golyshev about his son, a special boy Kolya. And the poems of Kolya himself (now he is 12 years old, he was at the ceremony of presenting the "Mask" - and rejoiced together with the director and actors Anna Somkina and Alexander Balsanov (the "actor's" mask for the puppeteers also went to the play "Kolino's composition"). the sad world of the commuter train journey of the poet Kolya and the girl he invented Varya became one of the most humane performances of Masks -2017.

New nomination in "Mask" -2017 - "Playwright". This seems deeply true - and long overdue. There were three performances in the competition based on new plays written in Russian. "Sasha, take out the trash" by Natalia Vorozhbit (staged by Viktor Ryzhakov at the Meyerhold Center) is a laconic and tragic chronicle of Kiev today, a long conversation between his wife and the shadow of a Ukrainian officer who died "in the ATO zone". About how, in particular, how the Soviet lieutenant is going through the collapse and twists of the 1990s, how he becomes a patriot of a new country that arose during the collapse of the empire. The inclusion of a play in the competition says something about the dignity and professional independence of the 2017 Russian National Theater Award.

The nomination also included “Peace. Teleut short stories ”by Vyacheslav Durnenkov and Maria Zelinskaya is a documentary story of the descendants of a small Siberian people who passed along with everyone in the 20th century: a melting pot of a single school, great construction projects and carriages.

But he received the first "Mask" of the playwright Marius Ivashkevichus - for the play "Russian Novel", the basis of the play by Mindaugas Karbauskis and the Mayakovsky Theater about Tolstoy. (In an interview with Novaya Gazeta, Ivashkevichus spoke about the essence of the play: “ Tolstoy, like Levin in the novel, had a family born after a catastrophe. Orphanhood disasters. They both felt somewhat of their youth as the only survivor of a shipwreck. And so -​ this man is creating a huge family again "... And then - about how the Yasnaya Polyana idyll, built by the firm hand of a genius, collided with reality.)

“Mask” -2017 for the role of Sofia Andreevna in “Russian Novel” was given to Evgenia Simonova. "Russian Novel" was also awarded as the best performance of a large form. The male actor's "Mask" -2017 was given to Danila Kozlovsky - Hamlet in the play by Lev Dodin.

“Magadan / Cabaret” by Yuri Pogrebnichko and the theater “Near Stanislavsky's House” was recognized as the best performance in small form - a new part of the theatrical hypertext about the ruins of the Russian XX century, shot at close range (as always in the Okolo Theater) by carriage and street melody, trembling scraps romances, the dim light of railway lanterns, the dampness of the greatcoat.

Pogrebnichko, by the way, received the "Mask" for the first time since 2003. (It was especially offensive for the theater and actress Lilia Zagorskaya in 2012, when the amazing performance “Occupation is a nice thing!” That breaks the heart of every veteran and disabled person of the Land of Soviets was left without awards.) But ... it was in the drama competition “Masks” - 2017 (as happens every year) passions boiled: so many excellent works were nominated that it is a shame for some now (and "The Mask" is one).

The jury's special prize for the acting ensemble was given to "Three Sisters" by Timofey Kulyabin (Krasny Torch Theater, Novosibirsk): the best director's work for today, shrill Chekhov in the language of deaf-mute demons (here they speak with gestures, and the text of the play crawls across video screens), terrible Chekhov, whose characters have thrown off their last uniform, the last corset - clear and imputed Russian speech, but they feel and speak with groans, hums, writhing delirium tremens.

The second special prize of the drama jury went to the actors of the Alexandrinsky Theater, playing "On the Other Side of the Curtain" by Andriy Zholdak. And this is "Three Sisters" - surreal, subtly illuminated, full of alien wind and the noise of the waves of the cold circumpolar sea. Here, the souls of the Prozorov sisters and their associates rush in space (it seems, after the death of our planet), confirming the immortality of the word written in the old spelling in 1900. Both Kulyabin's Three Sisters and Zholdak's Beyond the Curtain could claim the main Masks.

The lists of nominees (28 directors were included in it in 2017 - and how can the jury choose between them ?!) such worthy works of the last season as "Uncle Vanya" by Mikhail Bychkov (Chamber Theater, Voronezh), "Kira Georgievna" by Sergey Zhenovacha, "The Last Rendezvous in Venice" by Dmitry Krymov with Alexander Filippenko, noble "Notes of a Young Doctor" by Grigory Kozlov (Masterskaya Theater, St. Petersburg), the spectacular "Ship of Fools" by Denis Bokuradze (Gran 'Theater-Studio, Novokuibyshevsk).

The "Director's" "Mask" -2017 was received by Andrey Moguchy. His "Thunderstorm" (Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater) is like a square play on a screen of eternal dolls dressed in black (only Katerina in scarlet), types of the Russian folk theater with all its fierce murderous dramas. The powerful visuality of the early theater of the Mighty and the classic BDT tradition found a new synthesis. The set design of Vera Martynova for the performance could rightfully claim the "Mask" - the city of Kalinov, black like a young minimalist's jacket, stitched with silver lightning bolts of God's wrath, shaded by pillars of pale light: either the lanterns play on the landing stage and the Volga docks, or angels beloved by Katerina descend and ascend ...

The Golden Mask (like a huge number of cultural and publishing institutions in Russia) was founded in the early 1990s. By the end of this decade, when the entire wave of “quarter-century” anniversaries has passed, we will be able to assess how many heroic projects the “hard times” have spawned. How desperately their founders fought for these projects. How many load-bearing structures of the modern cultural process of the Russian Federation were created then - and survived, developed, strengthened in spite of the wind of time.

But the "Mask" in this long series is one of the most important initiatives. The festival and the award have become an institution of search, selection, and presentation of new theatrical names before the eyes of the professional community (and in two or three years' time - and the “wide audience”). It would be worth writing about this separately, listing the first successes of the Mariinsky Ballet and the Novosibirsk Opera, conductor Currentzis and choreographer Baganova, novice author Grishkovets, young directors Serebrennikov, Moguchy, Chernyakov, Krymov (after all, everyone went through the "lifting mechanism" of "Masks") ...

And in the nominations-awards "Masks" -2017, as always, new names dawned. Rising reputations were clearer. Ballet critics whispered to the dramatic: "Pay the closest attention" - and underlined a line in a narrow booklet with the names of the nominees, similar to the program of the St. Petersburg races with the participation of Vronsky and Frou-Frou.

The tradition is still alive. She (in a broad sense!) Turned out to be persistent and capable of development.

And how do you remember how it began! And what kind of death was seriously expected a quarter of a century ago ...

The 2017 award was the largest in terms of the number of participants

Actor Danila Kozlovsky, winner in the Drama / Male Role nomination, at the Golden Mask award ceremony

Moscow. April 19. site - Andrey Moguchy, Danila Kozlovsky, Teodor Currentzis became laureates of the 23rd Russian National Theater Prize "Golden Mask", the ceremony of which took place on Wednesday at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater.

"For 23 years, it was the largest" Mask "- in more than three months we had more than 220 performances, including all projects, competition and out-of-competition programs. festival Maria Revyakina.

She also remembered Georgy Taratorkin, who died in February 2017, who had headed the Golden Mask for over 20 years. “Georgy Georgievich knew for sure what dedication to his work means, what it means to understand and accept theater people, forgive and love them. He watched with equal interest both the capital's performances and performances from the regions. And truly, Georgy Georgievich was a man of honor and dignity, an inner aristocracy, "Revyakina said.

Chairman of the Drama and Puppet Theater jury, artistic director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT) Alexei Borodin told Interfax that there is a tendency of searches in the works presented this season. “This is a search in different directions. And I think it’s good,” he said.

Answering the question whether the discussions about censorship had an impact on the atmosphere in the theatrical environment, Borodin noted that, in his opinion, such discussions only liberate people. "Everyone is reacting now to this (discussions about censorship - IF) absolutely calmly and even, to some extent, all these conversations provoke to some kind of creativity that is free," the artistic director of RAMT expressed confidence.

"The Golden Mask" in the nomination "Best Performance in a Drama. Big Form" was awarded to the "Russian Novel" of the Vladimir Mayakovsky Theater, and the best dramatic director was Andrey Moguchy ("The Thunderstorm" of the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater).

The jury awarded Danila Kozlovsky ("Hamlet" of the Maly Drama Theater - Theater of Europe) for the best male role in a drama, and Evgenia Simonova (Sofia Tolstaya in the "Russian novel" of the Moscow Mayakovsky Theater) for the female role.

The best opera production was Rodelinda by the Bolshoi Theater, and Teodor Currentzis was named the best conductor in opera (La Traviata by the Perm Tchaikovsky Theater and Ballet).

The best ballet performance was recognized as "Romeo and Juliet" of the Theater of Opera and Ballet of Yekaterinburg, and the best conductor was Pavel Klinichev. In this nomination, three works were presented, on each of which Klinichev worked. The jury noted his "Undine", presented in the Bolshoi Theater.

The first in the nomination "Operetta / Musical" was "Bindyuzhnik and King" of the Krasnoyarsk Theater for Young Spectators.

Aigum Aygumov, Irina Bogacheva, Andrei Borisov, Rezo Gabriadze, Georgy Kotov (who died in March 2017), Nikolai Marton, Oleg Tabakov, Vladimir Etush became the laureates of the Union of Theater Workers (STD) prize for their outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art.

The Golden Mask was established in 1993 by the Union of Theater Workers of the Russian Federation as a professional award for the best works of the season in all types of theatrical art.

In total, more than 900 applications were submitted for participation in the 23rd "Mask" - 130 cities, 614 drama performances and 325 performances of musical performances took part in the selection.