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“Minority” means contrasts of Russian life ”, - so the composer Alexander Zhurbin described his new musical,
which premiered on July 28, 2015. The ceremonial views of the northern capital are combined with paintings here.
provincial backwater, gold-embroidered velvet camisoles - with padded jackets and linen shirts, luxurious wigs
Catherine II's courtiers - with greasy beards and scythes peasants floor-length. According to the directors for
making braids and beards took kilometers of rope - it was enough to pave the way from St. Petersburg to Moscow,
and the costumes took about 1000 square meters of burlap and flange. There is in this performance and snow-white imperial
a carriage, and a dilapidated wooden fence, a river, a bridge, and even a dovecot, where Mitrofanushka nedorosl settled. One of the current
Persons will be made by Catherine II, to whom Pravdin comes in with a petition for staging a new comedy. So above the layer of events
in the estate of Prostakovs a story about the city authorities appears. Creating a controversial image of the power-hungry empress,
Librettist Lev Yakovlev turned to her memoirs and compiled a dictionary of Catherine's words and expressions. Almost all that heroine
will say on stage - a compilation of phrases that Catherine the Great herself has ever said. Gennady Chikhachev focused performance
mainly on the school age audience, putting the action brightly, dynamically, with an abundance of choreographic numbers,
without abstruse riddles and fashionable now flirting with the "basic instinct." In the musical, sharp humor, hooliganism and enthusiasm
combined with deep reflections on the eternal Russian problems: dependency, disrespect for the individual, despotism, the blind
parents' love for their child ... and about the problem of power, which does not see and does not hear those it controls. There is a place
to the tender feelings of Milon and Sophia, the intrigues of the restless Prostakovs and the kind magic of Starodum. Saving black and white
contrast images of the play Fonvizin, the play presents the story is not so straightforward. The point at the end of the performance is
comma calling for reflection. Not just to laugh at the disgraced Prostakovs together, but, tearing my eyes off the stage,
look around, look inside yourself. That, having seen fault, with enthusiasm of hopeless romantics to join with them in
fight - and make the world a better place.
Staging group:
Composer - Honored Artist of Russia Alexander ZHURBIN
Librettist - Lev Yakovlev
Director -
Honored Artist of Russia, Honored Artist of Russia Gennady Chikhachev
Musical Director and Conductor - Honored Artist of Russia Vladimir YANKOVSKY
Scenery - Honored Worker of Culture Tatyana MIROVA
Costumes - Prize winner of the Government of Russia Elena BOCHKOVA
Ballet master - winner of the international competition Ekaterina FOMICHEVA
Choirmaster - International Competition Winner Elena KONOREVA
Cast:
Prostakova - Honored Artist of Russia Lyudmila Polyanskaya
Prostakov - Vladimir Kurkin, Evgeny Bashlykov
Mitrofan - the winner of the Moscow Government Prize Vadim Popovichev
Skotinin - Sergey Ryazanov, Anton Fadeev
Sofya - Natalia Rebrova, Dina Velez-Morozova, Zhanna Andreeva
Milon - Konstantin Skripalev, Valery Polovinkin
Eremeevna - Honored Artist of Russia Tatyana Petrova,
Honored Artist of Russia Natalia Zamniborsch,
Starodum - Yury Krasov, Stanislav Yakubovsky
Pravdin - Oleg Zimin
Catherine II - Honored Artist of Russia Anna Alt
Kuteikin - Evgeny Bashlykov, Vladimir Kurkin
Tsyfirkin - Anton Fadeev, Sergey Ryazanov
Vralman - Grigory Zakhariev
Trishka - Stanislav Shirokov, Honored Artist of Russia Vladlen Mikhalkov
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