Reduction and mere mortals do not manage to get together! And not because they are creatures from different worlds. Just ordinary people, it turns out, forgot how to play along with the secrets of the ancient castle!
After all, how should one behave? Of course, frightened stories about bringing, to be afraid of the kind of the ghost itself, scatter all around in a meeting with him ...
But the ghosts no longer believe, they are not afraid, and suddenly it is found that this ghost should be feared by people who do not want to leave him alone.
Maybe a little girl can help a ghost? After all, the ghost really suffers, paying for a terrible sin - murder. Someone must help him find peace!
Well, who does not remember from the school bench this "appreciate the act of Raskolnikov," "whether he had the right or not," "what do these thoughts lead to" ... Well, and so on.
But in fact the truth, to what?
Someone makes them think about the problems of being, and someone is encouraged to write an amazing libretto for the real rock opera.
Then there are those who create a musical masterpiece, those who embody on the stage are not such simple images, revealing new facets of the characters. And now - the masterpiece is ready.
But what is a masterpiece without decorations and unique technologies? In this age, when art and technology are intertwined together, creating an even more authentic world - it would seem impossible to surprise, but some still risk to try.
So, our heroes: music - Eduard Artemyev, libretto, idea and staging - Andrey Konchalovsky, art director - Matt Diili (Great Britain), costume designer - Tamara Ashba.
However, of course, this is not all who worked to create this amazing work, and the more interesting it is to come and see what happened to them in the end!
"I dreamed of a garden in a wedding dress, in this garden we are together with you. The stars in the sky, the stars on the sea, the stars and in my heart. "
They peacefully sing romances, but the shadow of the coming revolution has already fallen on such a cozy house. The clouds are gathering. The storm is just around the corner.
Guests are chatting on the summer veranda. All my family, the manufacturer's family, their friends and acquaintances gathered. The head of the family soon intends to take his sick wife to Yalta to Chekhov, hoping that the former doctor will cure his wife of consumption.
They are waiting for the famous singer, who promised to sing Russian romances for them. And they themselves love to sing, sincerely, captivating.
Almost twenty songs! From the most famous to rarely performed, on the verses of Lermontov, Pushkin, Tyutchev and unknown authors.
Some of them, for example, "The Black Shawl", will not be sung, but played out as a mischievous theatrical performance.
The guests gathered at the dacha veranda on the day of Chekhov's death. Very soon - the first Russian revolution.
But there is still time to sing a captivating romance about the first dates.
"Leaves are a whisper or wind gusts sensitive soul I greedily catch. The eyes are deep, the mouth is silent: dear, oh dear, I love. "
The wicked sorcerer disliked the gentle, beautiful fairy and bewitched her! From now on, the fairy is a little defenseless girl. She lives in the forest ... Who will help her to regain her former appearance?
Only those who are brave in heart and are able to do good deeds unselfishly, can save the fairy from the spell. Yes, that's just not everyone will pass such a test, because those who help others free of charge and with a pure heart, not so much in this world. And all those who showed cowardice are imprisoned by a sorcerer ...
Will the lumberjob Goran manage to go through hard trials and help the fairy?
A ballet with many tricks not only amuses and amuses young spectators: it teaches them how beautiful love is!
The Tin Soldier was in love with the Ballerina, but their romantic union was prevented by the evil Troll. Unsaid, reincarnated left their youthful feeling - but even so it was perfect!
To be amazed at your love and be ready to give your heart to another - only such straightforward and honest natures as the Tin Soldier are able to remain true to their great feelings!
What kind of wife to choose? Princess in a pink dress, which with a glamorous dog in the guests appeared? The nature of such a bride is unbearable, and she certainly does not know how to cook, but she will be demanding much from her husband!
No, it's much better to marry a simple girl, hard-working. With her, any work - in joy, and to work around the house together with her nice!
And the time will come - and the stork will have to catch up. Well, to catch up so to catch up, there's nothing to do. Go!
Mirrors, mirrors - huge, like a way out into the world of the other world, small, giving a reflection in the eyes opposite, - here around the mirror and nowhere from them can not escape. Unless to rise in full growth, having entered in an oval frame and to stop, but from what of their parties? However, the hoax gets stuffed.
A rich Moscow house wakes up leisurely and impressively, the morning as morning is vain, noisy. There, a dress from a tailor was brought to the fitting, then the men came with their eternal land issues. There, someone at the mirror turns, rehearsing the look fatal, but what about without a fatal look? Without it, nowhere. And so, slowly, the owner of the house descends merrily to breakfast ... And what is it good to say for a slow, slightly sleepy meal? Of course, the soul ... About the soul and the world, which is inaccessible and beckons with its mystery, the world beyond. And after all, there are experts on this topic: mediums, spiritists ... And the table as it suits - a huge, oval, the very thing for the main event of the day - the session. Here, at this session, the world of everyday problems will collide, even if the masters want to buy themselves, even the enthusiasm of the landlords, they want to buy themselves, but the world of spiritual needs, when one wants to touch an unknown and believe in it - do not stand up for the price. But who dares to take advantage of these "fruits" of the minds of the holy? Can a smart and resourceful maid? And that, at her groom the present talent of the medium opened! But why do you need a smart girl?
All the answers in the sparkling and most "densely populated" theater performance, as if in a mirror you will see everything in it yourself. And what - it's up to you.
Make a creative career, be a true opera guru, become a maestro in the public eye - is it easy?
No, it's incredibly difficult even for someone who is talented. A hundred times more difficult - someone who is desperately talentless.
But the thirst for glory takes precedence over both prudence and over banal conscience.
From somewhere verses are put, from somewhere - music; The idea, the libretto - everything has been borrowed, and now the work is made "out of what was" and put into the light.
But fate will take revenge on someone who stubbornly insolence and indifference to copyright steals someone else's, betraying him for his. A wife can obediently endure the eternal self-praise of her husband, a bohemian environment can grieve in half with the grieving musician, but the artistic world is cruel, and the public will not forgive mediocre cheating: will not accept the production. Mocked at the premiere, the alleged Maestro will not find the strength to go on stage. The passionate and ardent applause turned into a nightmare, the heart could not stand the hard crash of hopes, and now the maestro simply does not exist - he became a story about an unreasonably vain man, turned into a memory of his unpleasant delights, a symbol of sly mediocrity.
Death to her was the only salvation.
Poor, poor Anna ...
Women are such creatures that, as long as they are not studied, there is always a surprise. Even for her.
Husband, son, position in society. All this is meaningless when it appears. Something insolent was in her clothes and gait. And he flashed a poisonous gleam in his eyes and took her far, far away.
A thief, a thief ... Stole it from the family, from relatives. She stole her heart from her. Shame and disgrace. There is no road back.
The fire of passion flared instantly. But in this world prejudices and stereotypes rule. What choice will she make between her family and her love? After all, it seems that only now she began to really live.
She met him at the station. Someone's devilish eyes snatched the look from the crowd. But the circle will close. The story, which began with the railway, will end there.
This is not love - it's a sure death. Death. Dead sleep, nightmares ... A terrible old man, all in black oil, clattering and screeching on the rails.
In all this wonderful smile is to blame.
"Today I am very willing to dispose of my Sabbath. And, if Ninka is not capricious, I will dispose of my life. "
Girls loved foreigners.
She sells love for money, better - for currency. He knows all the entrances and exits to hotels where Europeans settle. He is afraid of the police persecution ...
And she connected her life with a real bandit. She fell in love with an "adult and tall man with two golden teeth, a dreamer and a criminal".
In the difficult post-war years in Moscow there were so many. They lived in communal apartments, drank, but hoped for a better life.
"First, they were playing candy wrappers in a parlor with chimneys. And then the romance left the podvoroten thieves. "
The story of love of one of them was told in his play by Vladimir Vysotsky.
"Well, and the trouble with this Ninkoy, she slept with the whole of the Horde!" With such sleep, who would want? And I do not care, I really want to! "
The country heals wounds, exhausted people return from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Those who did not wait for the father or son from the war were burning.
There are a lot of Vysotsky's songs in the play.
"They looked around, woke up, drank, then sobered up. And those who waited, those who did not want to cry, wept. "
A vortex of memories with reflections on decency, traditions and honor.
Restaurant - a world full of temptations, on whatever side of the world you were. If you are having fun in the hall - you are seduced by luxury, idleness, a sense of sublimity over the world in general, and the presence of helpful waiters adds ghostly conceit.
And what about the flip side of this luxurious world? Who are they, these little "fussy" people? What becomes a temptation for them? Perhaps, someone dropped "five hundred" rubles?
And what are they living, inconspicuous, helpful waiters? Look, there's one, he has such an expressive face and eyes, what does he think?
Maybe all of his memories will start to appear behind him, like "background", forming into living pictures. After all, the main thing here is him.
He and his life against the backdrop of a "vague" revolutionary time, when any life's stability collapses under the pressure of strength, which not everyone can resist.
The son goes to the "revolutionaries", the daughter escapes from the house and the child gets accustomed, everything rolls down somewhere and how to stop all this is incomprehensible. And then there's the constant "bring - give".
And how can you maintain your inner dignity and not lose faith in life?