Opera in a shopping center: Mezzo TV channel organizes a broadcast from the Bolshoi Theater to the VEGAS Kuntsevo shopping center with the help of the Tricolor operator. Opera in a shopping center: Mezzo TV channel organizes a broadcast from the Bolshoi Theater to the VEGAS Kuntsevo shopping center with the help of operator T

TV channel Mezzo announced the start of cooperation with the Bolshoi Theater to conduct live broadcasts of theater productions. The first broadcast is scheduled for November 12 When will you be able to see it live? Shostakovich's opera "Katerina Izmailova" conducted by the world famous Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev.

The premiere of the opera “Katerina Izmailova” took place in February 2016. The plot of the opera is familiar to the audience - the libretto was written by Shostakovich based on Leskov’s essay “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”. This opera by Shostakovich has been staged at the Bolshoi Theater three times since 1935. And now, thanks to cooperation with the Mezzo TV channel, connoisseurs around the world will be able to see the production simultaneously.

The goal of the Mezzo TV channel is to make music accessible to a wide audience. The language of music is understandable to everyone, which is why Mezzo is broadcast in more than 57 countries from Australia to Canada. More than 28 million families are subscribers of the Mezzo TV channel.

With the help of Mezzo, audiences are introduced to classical music, jazz and ballet. On the TV channel you can see current stage stars, legends of the past, new talents, solo concerts, opera, symphonic and church music, jazz, ethnic music, and dance. Every month Mezzo focuses on three artists - their concerts, performances, and broadcasts.

Every year Mezzo produces 150 outstanding performances and 25 live broadcasts in theaters around the world. From the current repertoire of the Bolshoi Mezzo Theater the following have already been filmed: the operas “The Queen of Spades”, “Wozzeck”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, “Prince Igor” and the ballets “Sleeping Beauty”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Nutcracker” , “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, “Swan Lake”, Swan Lake”, “Raymonda”, “Flames of Paris”.

Upcoming broadcasts on Mezzo live HD

January 12, House of French Radio
Rachmaninov, Dvorak: Denis Matsuev and the National Orchestra of France

January 17, Montreal Symphony House
Haydn, Reich: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano

“WE ARE CLOSE TO BECOME A CULTURAL CENTER OF RUSSIA”

Today the composition of the Kazan Opera participants who will take part in the gala concert of the Universiade Festival of Festivals on July 17, the closing day of the World Games, was determined. As the BUSINESS Online newspaper learned, these will be bass Mikhail Kazakov, soloist Albina Shagimuratova and chief conductor of the opera house Renat Salavatov.

This year, as in the past, among the festival participants. Chaliapin was in Kazan Valery Gergiev, which on February 16 presented to Kazan residents one of the last premieres of the Mariinsky Theater - the opera Jules Massenet"Don Quixote". The maestro was in Kazan for only one day, but managed to meet with the mayor of the capital of Tatarstan Ilsur Metshin with whom he and the director of the opera house Raufal Mukhametzyanov discussed the cultural program of the Universiade.

Last year, Georgiev and Mukhametzyanov decided that on one of the days of the sports forum, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra would give a gala concert in Kazan. During this visit, the maestro had an idea: why not show it to the whole world? Metshin developed the idea and proposed broadcasting not only the Mariinsky concert, but also the Kazan Opera program. So it was decided. The gala concert will take place on July 17, the day the Universiade ends, and will be broadcast on one of the most popular TV channels promoting classical music - Mezzo.

But not only the orchestra and soloists of the Mariinsky Theater will take part in the concert. A large block is given to the soloists of the Kazan Opera - these are world-class “stars” Shagimuratova and Kazakov. In addition to Kazan, they perform at the most prestigious venues in the world - from La Scala to the Metropolitan Opera. In addition to the soloists, some of the numbers in the concert will be conducted by Salavatov, the chief conductor of the TGAT Opera and Ballet named after. Jalil.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Kazan “the sports center of our country,” this is true, but such a broadcast also shows that we are close to becoming the cultural center of Russia. The Mezzo TV channel is one of the most respected in the world, it is watched by everyone who is involved in classical music and gives preference to it. And if he showed interest in our work, interest in the city where Fyodor Chaliapin was born, where two international festivals are held - an opera festival named after this great bass and a ballet festival named after Rudolf Nureyev - this is an unconditional success, - he commented on the situation with the broadcast to the BUSINESS Online correspondent director of the opera theater Mukhametzyanov.

THERE WILL BE 9 CAMERAS FILMING

The Telmondis company will directly handle the broadcast. It was founded in 1972 and is one of the largest French producers of audiovisual products through the broadcast of “live” performances of the highest level - opera, ballet, world-famous circus and music shows, classical and modern dance, jazz, classical music.

Since 2004, Telmondis has been a permanent partner of the largest television channels in France (France Televisions, Arte France, Mezzo, Gulli, Paris Premiere), as well as international television channels ARTV (Canada), NHK (Japan), ZDF (Germany), RAI 3 (Italy) , SIC (Portugal), RTBF (Belgium), KRO (Netherlands), CFI (France, focused on the Mediterranean countries, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Asia), A1 Jazeera Children Channel (Qatar), MDR (Germany), 2M (Morocco) and other.

The total target audience of Telmondis is more than 150 million people around the world. The company cooperates with the Grand Opera, the Zurich Opera, the Royal Brussels Opera House, the Lyon National Opera, the Parisian Phoenix Cirque and others. Of the Russian theaters, the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theaters received her attention.

As for the broadcast itself, it is worth clarifying that Mezzo is a French TV channel dedicated to classical music, opera, ballet, jazz and ethnic music. The channel was founded in 1992 under the name France Supervision. In 1998 it received its current name. In 2001, it was decided to merge the Mezzo and Muzzik channels; in April 2002, the channels merged.

Since 2003, the channel's slogan has been Écouter, Voir, Oser ( fr. - listen, watch, dare). The channel's program includes recordings and broadcasts of concerts of classical, sacred, jazz, ethnic music, opera performances, classical and modern ballet, documentaries and television magazines about music and performers.

MIKHAIL PLETNEV, BORIS EIFMAN AND OTHERS

Representatives of the Telmondis company several days ago already visited in the opera house, took a plan of the auditorium and calculated the number of cameras that would be needed for broadcast. There will be 9 of them. Naturally, holding such an important concert as the gala concert of the cultural Universiade is a troublesome task, and placing 9 cameras in the hall will not be easy. But the theater will not incur any expenses, except moral ones. All settlements with the company will be handled by city and republican authorities.

“The name of Fyodor Chaliapin is familiar to classical music lovers around the world, but only a few know that the great singer was born in Kazan,” says the company’s president Antoine Perse, who had already come to Kazan, met with Metshin and held negotiations at the Town Hall. Naturally, the “Chaliapin theme” will prevail when compiling the concert program. And here the performer of Chaliapin’s parts – bass Kazakov – will be very useful.

However, not only the memories of the great countryman and his traditions will surprise people during the Universiade in the opera theater at the Festival of Festivals. Its cultural program will open on the same day as the sports forum - July 6. It will open with the premiere of a rarely performed opera. George Gershwin“Porgy and Bess”, the opera will be presented for the first time on the stage of the Kazan Theater and will be performed in concert. The musical director of the production is a maestro from Italy Marco Boemi. The main roles, as prescribed by the composer, will be performed by African-American singers. But what to do with the choir is still being decided.

Then three more operas will be presented to the public. This is Eugene Onegin Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a classical production whose musical director was Pletnev. Today it became known that he agreed to conduct the orchestra during this performance during the Universiade. The public will also see the theater’s last two premieres – “Turandot” Giacomo Puccini in an avant-garde production Mikhail Panjavidze and a completely traditional production of “Aida” Giuseppe Verdi staged Yuri Alexandrov.

The ballet block also consists of four diverse performances, showing the entire range of directions in which the theater operates. This is a classic - “Swan Lake” by Tchaikovsky, Tatar ballet Farida Yarullina"Shurale" and two modern ballets - "Spartacus" Aram Khachaturyan and "Anyuta" Valeria Gavrilina. However, the ballet block will be strengthened by the arrival of a troupe from St. Petersburg Boris Eifman What they will bring to show to the guests of the Universiade will be decided in the coming days.

We have already determined the casts that will participate in the performances of the summer festival by selecting the best performers. At the end of April, Boemi begins rehearsals for Porgy and Bess with the theater orchestra. It was difficult to find soloists for this performance; only a few sing these parts in the world, but we nevertheless found worthy performers from New York, Miami, South Africa,” says the casting manager Anna Bagautdinova.

THERE WILL BE INTEREST IN EUROPE WATCHING OUR PERFORMANCES

Will such a broadcast be of interest to foreign viewers? Here's what BUSINESS Online experts think about this.

Alexey Stepanyuk- director of the Mariinsky Theater, professor of the St. Petersburg Conservatory:

I think this will be an interesting project; Mezzo has long formed its own specific audience of music fans who are interested in everything new. Performances and concerts of the Mariinsky Theater are periodically broadcast by foreign television channels, and this is a very good promotion for both the theater and the city. It’s a pity that the performances of our White Nights festival are not broadcast yet. Such a broadcast will not harm Kazan.

Nikolay Rybinsky– special correspondent for Radio Orpheus, author of numerous reports from festivals named after. Shalyapin and Nuriev:

Of course, the audience will watch, a guarantee of this is the performances of the Kazan opera and ballet troupe, which people go to abroad with pleasure. This means there is demand if people go and buy tickets. Therefore, they will watch such a broadcast, and they will also receive the soloists of the Mariinsky Theater and Valery Gergiev as a bonus. But I want to note that such a broadcast is not cheap.

Rashid Kalimullin– Chairman of the Union of Composers of the Republic of Tatarstan:

Mezzo is a very reputable channel; viewers already know that it broadcasts only high-quality music. I watch it all the time; recently, for example, I watched a wonderful production of La Bohème with Albina Shagimuratova in the title role. The fact that the broadcast would be carried out on such a prestigious TV channel, and not on some cheap one, was the right decision. For the prestige of our city, which hosts the Universiade, that is, the second most important sports game after the Olympics, this will be good PR.

November 13, 2018, Moscow. The Mezzo TV channel is expanding the boundaries of broadcasting: now lovers of classical music, opera and ballet will be able to enjoy live broadcasts not only at home.

On November 15, from 19:00 to 22:30, visitors to the VEGAS Kuntsevo shopping and entertainment complex will see a live broadcast from the Bolshoi Theater - the opera “The Tsar’s Bride” (conducted by the Bolshoi Theater music director Tugan Sokhiev). The broadcast will take place on the ground floor of the shopping center next to the skating rink.

The project, unique for the TV channel and shopping and entertainment complex, will be supported by operator Tricolor.

“For Tricolor, as the leader of the Russian Pay TV market, it is important to provide high-quality and varied content. We are pleased that thanks to our long-standing cooperation with Mezzo, more than 30 million of our viewers can join the best works of classical ballet, opera and musical art. Live broadcasts from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters make vibrant theatrical performances available to a huge number of people in different parts of Russia. We are happy to help our partners carry out the first show of the famous opera “The Tsar’s Bride” by Rimsky-Korsakov in an unusual place for classical art - the VEGAS shopping and entertainment complex in Moscow. We are confident that this bright event will be remembered by the audience,” comments Pavel Steshin, Tricolor Public Relations Director.

The opera consists of four acts, transporting the audience to the Alexandrovskaya Sloboda of 1572. Viewers will be able to plunge into the real cycle of love intricacies of the times of Ivan the Terrible.

You can find out more about the Mezzo and Mezzo Live HD TV channels on the website http://www.mezzo.tv/en/ru

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About Mezzo and Mezzo Live HD

Mezzo is a TV channel dedicated to classical music, opera, jazz and ballet. Mezzo collaborates with the largest theaters around the world, such as the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, La Scala in Milan, Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris National Opera and many other famous the whole world is a concert venue.

Mezzo Live HD began broadcasting in April 2010, the channel rebroadcasts the best classical music concerts, operas, ballets and jazz performances from around the world in HD format. Thanks to this technology, Mezzo Live HD viewers have the opportunity to virtually find themselves in the most famous concert halls on the planet. MEZZO Live HD is a Full Native HD TV channel that annually broadcasts more than 25 live concerts.

For questions regarding the distribution of TV channels, please contact the partner of Lagardere Active TV in Russia – Universal Distribution.

About VEGAS shopping center Kuntsevo

The third project of the Crocus Group VEGAS themed shopping mall network, which was opened in the fall of 2017. The design of the complex is made in Italian style, and a picturesque city with cozy streets and flowery balconies is integrated into its space. The central atrium became a copy of the greatest architectural monument - the ancient Roman Colosseum. In addition to shopping, in the new VEGAS you can visit a cinema, a family recreation park, an ice skating rink, the Crocus Fitness sports complex and the YOUR HOUSE hypermarket. Leading world and Russian brands are represented here, and a large food court area is occupied by famous restaurants.

About Tricolor

Tricolor is a multi-platform operator of the digital environment, providing a range of digital services including television viewing. Tricolor creates a unified information space of entertainment and services for the whole family, accessible from any device, anywhere and regardless of time. Broadcasts throughout Russia.

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The TV camera is dangerous. A mediocre performance will die under her gaze. If the performance is talented (and in the case of “The Queen of Spades” staged by Alexey Stepanyuk and with the musical direction of Valery Gergiev, he is not just talented, we are dealing with an extraordinary phenomenon of Russian culture), then the television camera will highlight its cultural codes and subtexts a hundredfold .

“You FEAR WITH AFTERNESS, YOU INSULT WITH PRAYER...”

“I cannot take upon myself all their destinies, these are not troubles, but destinies.

Everyone has their own destiny. There is Dostoevsky in this “Queen of Spades”, am I right?

Eat. St. Petersburg is the darkest and stuffiest city, the city of the Queen of Spades. A gambling house is hell. The statues at the ball come to life and dance, they are without muscles, they are tax collectors. There are many ghosts there, the ghost of the Countess appears on the bed. The running of the hangers is like the running of rats around the house. Gergiev immediately understood everything, and the orchestra played with a dark, gloomy sound, slow tempos, huge pauses.

Does Herman love Lisa?

No, he would like to love her, but no. She turned to him with a grin of death - the Countess. There is no love, there is a destroying passion, three people were burned by their gaze, they are already marked by death. Tormenting desire and the impossibility of love, this happens in Tchaikovsky. This is the story of the Nutcracker and Masha, in the finale of the ballet there is simply a collapse of tragedy, there is no happy ending.

But in “The Queen of Spades” there is Yeletsky’s love...

This is more than love. This is knightly service. He's like an otherworldly knight. And Lisa is a masochist; she experiences inexplicable pleasure in death.

She is choking with jealousy.

From destructive jealousy, when she realizes that Herman did not need her, but the Countess.

“The Queen of Spades” at “Mezzo” is, in fact, a new performance. Where the beauty of dying, the poetry of destruction are elevated to cult. The cameraman who filmed the production was able to understand what was laid down by the director in the subtexts, what was lived by the conductor in this array of beautiful and chilling music.

Close-ups, when it doesn’t occur to you that this is an actor in front of you - these faces seem to have stepped out of the canvases of Goya, already possessed by madness. And you, too, willingly or unwillingly, are plunging into this abyss. From the first notes, from the first frames. What previously may have been out of focus due to perception from the auditorium, is now focused and has acquired paramount importance.

This boy, this slightly arrogant and like a transparent Petersburg youth, invented by the director - he is so strange, mysterious, almost ethereal. He is like a helmsman in Charon’s boat, a guide to another world, to those same Elysian Fields, Elysium, where the righteous, after leaving for another world, spend their days without sadness and worries. Although Lisa, Herman and the Countess are far from righteous...

Boy ( Egor Maksimov) begins the performance - with some kind of half-smile, with fluttering eyelashes. And, as always happens in the performances of Alexei Stepanyuk, the further development of the story seems to emerge from the fog. Through the glare, through the golden moving columns, through the mourning tulle, Herman sometimes looks out through it... Fate looks out.

Yes, no love. There is her desire - to the point of insanity, to the point of convulsion. In the veins of Herman ( Maxim Aksenov) and Lisa ( Irina Churilova) - “black blood”, which “not even dates, not even love” will not humble. She looks at him without even looking. “You look at me without even looking,” you can’t say more precisely. At the Countess's ( Maria Maksakova) there was once “black blood” that Saint Germain felt, but alas, it’s all in the past now. However, she also guesses Herman through her skin - the most reliable “sense organ”.

It seems that the Countess does not even live in memories, she is simply in another dimension. Her first impression of Herman is a premonition of the end, an instantly activated intuition. She leaves this dimension of hers for a couple of minutes when Herman comes to her, but this tension of strength becomes fatal for her.

Stepanyuk builds the performance in such a way that you experience sensations equal to those when you fly on a roller coaster - from jubilation (yes, there is that too) to breathtaking horror. There is horror when, together with the characters, you look into the abyss... It seems that you cannot hide from Herman’s gaze. And the word “scary” does not leave my mind.

But there is a paradox: the performance was made, let’s borrow the expression of the Orthodox philosopher Alexander Elchaninov, “with the grace of the heart.” Because it’s a pity for the heroes, they require our audience compassion. Close-ups of Herman, his despair in his eyes, the doom of both him and Lisa are a test of mercy for the public.

“I SHALL NOW SAY YOUR NAME...”

“Gergiev plunged the orchestra into the abyss. And at the same time he did not change his good taste.

The word “scary” is often repeated in opera. Why?

Terrible-passion-suffering - these words have the same root.

- “Joy and suffering are one?”

Yes. The story of the Countess is the story of a turn of the century. She lived in the time of knights, and now the Stingy Knight has entered the arena. He craves power over the world.

- “There are piles of gold there, and they belong to me, to me alone”?

(From a conversation with Alexey Stepanyuk.)

Herman is a tyrant, and, like any tyrant, he is weak, much weaker than the Countess, even Yeletsky. Yeletsky in the play ( Vladislav Sulimsky) is bright and pure, and truly a knight who inscribed the name of a beautiful lady on his shield. Herman is afraid of lack of freedom, hence his “I don’t know her name, and I don’t want to find out.” For him, any connection is a fetter in his legs, preventing him from achieving his goal. The goal is power over the world, the path to this is money. The Napoleon complex literally eats him up. It is no coincidence that Pushkin’s Hermann is “a man with the profile of Napoleon.” This difference also passed on to Herman in the opera.

And for sure - there is no love, there is a city with its evil grin, with a desire for suicide - well, how else could it have such a love for floods? The city and the people in it, who became part of it, accepted its rules of the game. With the madness of white nights, with the poisonous aroma of night violets, with the enchanted lunar circle of damp March.

All this is not directly in the play and it is all there. Because almost all of Alexey Stepanyuk’s performances are icebergs, slightly above the water, but the whole colossus of his philosophical thought is hidden, because “a thought expressed is a lie.” You can’t pronounce the name, Herman was right, let them guess for themselves.

A true artist is always in reticence, in secrecy, in unwillingness to reveal himself to the first person he meets. Which of us, right away, can say that we understood Tchaikovsky, Blok, Dostoevsky? If we do understand, it is after going through a painful path of knowledge, but it is all the more valuable that you finally understand and make it your own. So it is in “The Queen of Spades”.

The recording of the performance by the French TV channel Mezzo, made with great delicacy and respect for the director and conductor, magically highlighted many hidden subtexts. From the mystery of the Russian soul, which is drawn by the abyss and, fearing it, a person with cheerful despair goes on a date with it. Before understanding this terrible, destructive craving for power over the world. What the game of Maxim Aksenov showed was simply a rupture of the aorta.

The ending of the play is quiet and unexpected. The anguish that directors, as a rule, love in the last bars of this opera has left him. No, Stepanyuk’s German is even a little tired. He sits on the proscenium, and the boy, this strange boy, quietly closes his eyes.

In general, everything is logical. A small dwarf quietly crawled out and stopped the clock.

Photo: Valentin Baranovsky, Natasha Razina

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