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

In general, it was relatively easy to predict the official results of the next “Mask”. Nevertheless, the results of the audience vote, from our point of view, could add interesting details to the picture.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the category “Composer’s Work in Musical Theatre”, the audience’s first place was Georgiy Firtich (the play “White. Petersburg – 84 votes”), but the jury recognized Eduard Artemyev first for his work on the play “Crime and Punishment” at the Moscow Musical Theater. Viewers voted for this work 66 times.

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Every year at the beginning of November, the Golden Mask expert council announces a list of candidates for the most prestigious Russian theater award. Traditionally, this list, whatever it may be, causes a storm of conflicting emotions in the professional theater environment. It includes nearly a hundred selected drama, ballet, opera, puppetry, dance and experimental productions from across the country staged last season. You can find out how the largest theater festival in the country is organized.

Scandals and boycott

Kirill Serebrennikov’s performance “The Muller Machine” at the Gogol Center was not considered by Golden Mask experts at the director’s request.

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"Prince" in "Lenkom". Director - Konstantin Bogomolov. Does not participate in the Golden Mask program.

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The expert council of the “Golden Mask” for the 2015–2016 season was forcibly formed with the participation of the Ministry of Culture. Along with professionals, it included odious opportunistic characters, which caused a stir. Directors Kirill Serebrennikov and Konstantin Bogomolov promptly responded to the structural changes of the festival. Almost simultaneously on their Facebook pages they announced their refusal to participate in the Golden Mask. "for reasons of hygiene". Thus, the list of 2017 nominees does not include the two most notable Moscow productions of the last season: Serebrennikov and Bogomolov. Contrary to expectations, there is no absolute horror among the nominees. Not a single performance based on, nothing similar to or military-patriotic.

Headliners

"Three sisters". Director: Timofey Kulyabin. Theater "Red Torch", Novosibirsk.

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"La Traviata". Director - Robert Wilson. Perm Opera and Ballet Theater.

"Hamlet". Director - Lev Dodin. MDT, St. Petersburg.

"Storm". Director - Andrey Moguchiy. BDT im. Tovstonogov, St. Petersburg.

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Evgenia Simonova in the play “Russian Novel”. Director: Mindaugas Karbauskis. Theater named after Mayakovsky

© Theater named after. Mayakovsky

Although without the performances of Serebrennikov and Bogomolov, “The Golden Mask” is like a cake without a cherry, the list of nominees, it seems, truly contains all the most prominent events from all over the country, plus several dark horses and new names. Here are the phenomenal Novosibirsk “Three Sisters” by Timofey Kulyabin, performed in sign language; cold Permian “La Traviata” by Robert Wilson; St. Petersburg “Hamlet” by Lev Dodin with Danila Kozlovsky; Kostroma documentary stand-up dance “The Marusya” by Dialogue Dance; the spectacular musical “The Bandit and the King” by Roman Feodori from Krasnoyarsk; quantum experiment by Dmitry Volkostrelov “Field”. There are as many as 28 people in the “Director's Work” category, among whom, in general, are almost everyone you can think of: from Dmitry Krymov and Sergei Zhenovach to Andrei Moguchy and Yuri Pogrebnichko. In the acting nominations, with the exception of Danila Kozlovsky and Ksenia Rappoport, there are almost entirely new names and mostly theater artists. A special joy is the presence on the list of nominees for Best Actress of Evgenia Simonova, who on a grand scale and reliably experiences an utter mental catastrophe in “A Russian Novel” by Mindaugas Karbauskis at the Theater. Mayakovsky.

New nomination - “Work of a playwright”

A playwright is not always the author of a play. Increasingly, the playwright in the modern theater becomes a co-author of the play; he works with the director in rehearsals or writes text to be performed in a specific place by specific actors. Until this year, the playwright’s work was not singled out as a separate category by the expert advice of the Golden Mask; and now it happened - and it's great. The pioneers of the nomination were Natalia Vorozhbit (“Sasha, Take Out the Garbage”), Marius Ivashkevichus (“Russian Novel”) and the tandem of Vyacheslav Durnenkov and Maria Zelinskaya (“Peace. Teleut Novels”).

Best conductor

Pavel Klinichev - Associate Professor at the Moscow State Conservatory. Tchaikovsky

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There have already been times in the history of the festival when there was only one contender in the conducting category (Boris Nodelman, 2014). This year, there are three candidates in the “Ballet/Conductor's Work” category, and all of them are Pavel Klinichev. The competition will include performances in which the sought-after maestro shines at the controls: “Romeo and Juliet” at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, “Ondine” and “Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge” at the Bolshoi Theater.

Geography

The geographical breadth of the award is impressive: Sharypovo (“Once Upon a Time”), Khabarovsk (“Inquiry”), Norilsk (“Uncle Vanya”), Glazov (“The Trial”), Novokuibyshevsk (“Ship of Fools”), Astrakhan (“Damnation of Faust” ) - and this is only half of the list of rare guests of the Golden Mask. The list makes it clear that modern dance teams, original puppet theaters, world-class opera and ballet theaters, visionaries and cultural leaders, experimenters and masters of the old school are scattered throughout the country. No country in the world can afford such diversity and abundance.

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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 an opera went 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 category “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

Ecuadorian authorities have denied Julian Assange asylum at the London embassy. The founder of WikiLeaks was detained by British police, and this has already been called the biggest betrayal in the history of Ecuador. Why are they taking revenge on Assange and what awaits him?

Australian programmer and journalist Julian Assange became widely known after the website WikiLeaks, which he founded, published secret documents from the US State Department in 2010, as well as materials related to military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But it was quite difficult to find out who the police, supporting by the arms, were leading out of the building. Assange had grown a beard and looked nothing like the energetic man he had previously appeared in photographs.

According to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno, Assange was denied asylum due to his repeated violations of international conventions.

He is expected to remain in custody at a central London police station until he appears at Westminster Magistrates' Court.

Why is the President of Ecuador accused of treason?

Former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa called the current government's decision the biggest betrayal in the country's history. “What he (Moreno - editor’s note) did is a crime that humanity will never forget,” Correa said.

London, on the contrary, thanked Moreno. The British Foreign Office believes that justice has triumphed. The representative of the Russian diplomatic department, Maria Zakharova, has a different opinion. “The hand of “democracy” is squeezing the throat of freedom,” she noted. The Kremlin expressed hope that the rights of the arrested person will be respected.

Ecuador sheltered Assange because the former president had left-of-center views, criticized U.S. policies and welcomed WikiLeaks' release of secret documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even before the Internet activist needed asylum, he managed to personally meet Correa: he interviewed him for the Russia Today channel.

However, in 2017, the government in Ecuador changed, and the country set a course towards rapprochement with the United States. The new president called Assange “a stone in his shoe” and immediately made it clear that his stay on the embassy premises would not be prolonged.

According to Correa, the moment of truth came at the end of June last year, when US Vice President Michael Pence arrived in Ecuador for a visit. Then everything was decided. “You have no doubt: Lenin is simply a hypocrite. He has already agreed with the Americans on the fate of Assange. And now he is trying to make us swallow the pill, saying that Ecuador is supposedly continuing the dialogue,” Correa said in an interview with the Russia Today channel.

How Assange made new enemies

The day before his arrest, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristin Hrafnsson said that Assange was under total surveillance. “WikiLeaks uncovered a large-scale spy operation against Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy,” he noted. According to him, cameras and voice recorders were placed around Assange, and the information received was transferred to the Donald Trump administration.

Hrafnsson clarified that Assange was going to be expelled from the embassy a week earlier. This did not happen only because WikiLeaks released this information. A high-ranking source told the portal about the plans of the Ecuadorian authorities, but the head of the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, Jose Valencia, denied the rumors.

Assange's expulsion was preceded by the corruption scandal surrounding Moreno. In February, WikiLeaks published a package of INA Papers, which traced the operations of the offshore company INA Investment, founded by the brother of the Ecuadorian leader. Quito said it was a conspiracy between Assange and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and former Ecuadorian leader Rafael Correa to overthrow Moreno.

In early April, Moreno complained about Assange's behavior at Ecuador's London mission. “We must protect the life of Mr. Assange, but he has already crossed all boundaries in terms of violating the agreement that we came to with him,” the president said. “This does not mean that he cannot speak freely, but he cannot lie and hack.” ". At the same time, back in February last year it became known that Assange at the embassy was deprived of the opportunity to interact with the outside world, in particular, his Internet access was cut off.

Why Sweden stopped its prosecution of Assange

At the end of last year, Western media, citing sources, reported that Assange would be charged in the United States. This was never officially confirmed, but it was because of Washington’s position that Assange had to take refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy six years ago.

In May 2017, Sweden stopped investigating two rape cases in which the portal’s founder was accused. Assange demanded compensation from the country's government for legal costs in the amount of 900 thousand euros.

Earlier, in 2015, Swedish prosecutors also dropped three charges against him due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Where did the investigation into the rape case lead?

Assange arrived in Sweden in the summer of 2010, hoping to receive protection from American authorities. But he was investigated for rape. In November 2010, a warrant was issued for his arrest in Stockholm, and Assange was put on the international wanted list. He was detained in London, but was soon released on bail of 240 thousand pounds.

In February 2011, a British court decided to extradite Assange to Sweden, after which a number of successful appeals followed for the WikiLeaks founder.

British authorities placed him under house arrest before deciding whether to extradite him to Sweden. Breaking his promise to the authorities, Assange asked for asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​which was granted to him. Since then, the UK has had its own claims against the WikiLeaks founder.

What awaits Assange now?

The man was re-arrested on a US extradition request for publishing classified documents, police said. At the same time, Deputy Head of the British Foreign Ministry Alan Duncan said that Assange would not be sent to the United States if he faced the death penalty there.

In the UK, Assange is likely to appear in court on the afternoon of April 11. This is stated on the WikiLeaks Twitter page. British authorities are likely to seek a maximum sentence of 12 months, the man's mother said, citing his lawyer.

At the same time, Swedish prosecutors are considering reopening the rape investigation. Attorney Elizabeth Massey Fritz, who represented the victim, will seek this.