Danila Kozlovsky golden mask. "Golden Mask" announced the winners

The Golden Mask theater award ceremony began on the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Musical Theater (MAMT). The final list of nominees this season included 28 dramatic performances of “large” and “small” forms, 13 operas, five ballets and nine contemporary dance performances, four performances in the operetta/musical genre, as well as eight puppet shows.

The winner of the award in the category “Best Performance in an Operetta-Musical” was “Bindyuzhnik and the King” (Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk). The best actress in a musical operetta was played by Maria Biork - she was awarded for her role as Sonya in the play “Crime and Punishment” (Musical Theatre). 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. The best director in this category was Roman Feodori from the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk, and the conductor was Andrey Alekseev from the Musical Comedy Theater in St. Petersburg.

“Romeo and Juliet”, staged at the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, was named the best ballet performance. The “Best Actor” award was given to Igor, who played Mercutio in this production. The best conductor was Pavel Klinichev - he received a prize for his work “Ondine” to the music of Hans Werner Henze (Bolshoi Theater, Moscow). Victoria Tereshkina played the best female role in the play “Violin Concerto No. 2” (Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg), Anton Pimonov received an award for the same performance 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 award for best opera conductor was given to Teodor Currentzis for the performance of La Traviata at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm. Best Director: Richard Jones (opera Rodelinda, Bolshoi Theatre). The award in the category “Best Opera Performance” also went to “Rodelinda”. The award for the best actress in an opera was given to Nadezhda Pavlova (Violetta Valéry in La Traviata at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm), and for the best male role went to Liparit Avetisyan for (Chevalier des Grieux in the operetta Manon at the Stanislavsky Musical Theater and Nemirovich-Danchenko in Moscow). In the category “Best Work of a Composer in Musical Theatre” the award was won by Eduard Artemyev.

Danila Kozlovsky was recognized as the best dramatic actor for the role of Hamlet at the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg. The best dramatic actress was Evgenia Simonova, who played Sofya Tolstoy in the play “Russian Novel” at the Mayakovsky Theater. The best director for the second year in a row was Andrei Moguchiy - he was awarded for the play “The Thunderstorm” at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. The prize for best supporting actress in a drama was given to Elena Nemzer from the Alexandrinsky Theater for her role as Pantaloon in the production of “The Raven”, and for best male role went to Holgen Münzenmayer (Deacon in the play “Once Upon a Time” at the Sharypovo Drama Theatre).

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 to supporting theaters and expressed confidence that the award ceremony will provide participants with the opportunity to discuss current issues and exchange their experience. Mr. Putin also congratulated the laureates on their well-deserved success and wished everyone present good luck and inspiration for the implementation of their plans and ideas.

Among the just announced Golden Mask winners in various categories, there are so many St. Petersburg residents that the city can be congratulated: ballet, puppets, musicals, drama - everything, as it turns out, is the best here. But the nuances of the preferences of the high jury make us wary and think about the future with some anxiety. The results are so predictable and understandable from the layouts that it is obvious: the winners were not chosen by the jury as such, but by its “internal censor”, who did not make strategic mistakes in the first place.

First, let’s name (and congratulate) those who are bringing the “Golden Masks” to the city. In fact, the Grand Prix in the “Puppet Theater” section went to the play “Kolino’s Work” by St. Petersburg director Yana Tumina, which appeared as a project of the independent production company “KontArt” (for which we should be especially happy) with the support of the “Puppet Format” theater (to which we have special respect) . This performance is not only excellent in terms of the quality of production and the level of theatrical text, it is also, as they say, socially responsible: it is based on the book by artist Sergei Golyshev “My Son is Down,” but without a single sentimental note, without bad pathos and opportunistic pedaling the theme of “special people/children”. This is high lyricism for family viewing. Participants in the play Anna Somkina and Alexander Balsanov were separately awarded as best actors.

Things weren’t going well with the opera today—Moscow and Perm shared the prizes. But in the field of ballet, we are still the best and still thanks to the efforts of the Mariinsky Theater: the director of the ballet “Violin Concerto No. 2” after Prokofiev, Anton Pimonov, was named the best choreographer, and the impeccable Victoria Tereshkina was named the best ballet actress.

As for the music/musical performance nomination, the St. Petersburgers have two prizes: Andrei Alekseev was named best conductor, and Viktor Krivonos was named best actor. Both - for their work in Gennady Trostyanetsky’s play “White. Petersburg" of the St. Petersburg Theater of Musical Comedy.

As for the dramatic nominations, they are, as usual, the most intriguing and populous. Here among the winners is the artistic director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater. G.A. Tovstonogov Andrey Moguchiy, for the second year receiving an award as the best dramatic director: now - for “The Thunderstorm” according to Ostrovsky, cleared of vulgar social “school” interpretations of the characters, turned into a terrible fairy tale told through the means of folklore fair theater - homage a century later, the innovator Meyerhold was noted by all critics without exception.

Also among the laureates in the “Drama” section is Nikolai Roshchin, an artist and director of the play “The Raven” in Alexandrinka. Awarded as an artist and on merit. In this yet another terrible fairy tale (this time Italian, in Gozzi's adaptation), Roshchin drew everything - and even the new faces of the actors: similar gutta-percha masks change the performers beyond recognition, actually depriving them of individual facial expressions (the totalitarian world demands this). But you can’t hide Elena Nemzer under any guise, whose sharp, grotesque gift (she played the female version of Pantalone - Signor Pantalone) manifested itself here almost more strongly than in other performances - so “The Mask” turned out to be her as the best dramatic supporting actress where it suits you.

Two more “Masks” also went to Alexandrinka. One is a special jury prize for the “love triangle” Vershinin - Masha - Kulygin from the play “Beyond the Curtain” (an extreme fantasy by Andriy Zholdak based on “Three Sisters”, requiring courage and dedication from the actors): respectively, Igor Volkov - Alena Vozhakina - Vitaly Kovalenko . The second, out-of-competition, goes to Nikolay Marton “For his outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art” (we recall that a year ago this phenomenal actor took the stage for “The Mask” in the nomination “Best Dramatic Supporting Actor” - for the role of the Unknown, played with skill and scale and , God willing, will rise again and again).

The Third Federal Drama Theater also did not go without an award: the only “Mask” was awarded to the play “Hamlet”, and it was received not by director Lev Dodin, but by the performer of the title role, Danila Kozlovsky. And this is precisely an example of the cunning of judges who had to pronounce a verdict in troubled times. In general, it was obviously impossible for the jury to ignore Dodin’s performance, and, it seems, awarding the main artist is not a bad idea. But the problem is that Dodin designed the play so boldly and according to such radical laws that it can either be completely accepted or completely rejected. This is a world invented to the last nail by Dodin in counterpoint with Shakespeare, this is harsh anti-humanism - a value system in which the artist Kozlovsky, like all other actors, perform the tasks of a master, precise to the millimeter, on the verge of a foul. Perhaps this is not Dodin’s best performance in terms of integrity and perfection of form, but it is fully a “ride into the unknown,” a search for something new, without which no creativity can be called such. But the fact of the matter is that the new, radical, extreme, provocative (and “Hamlet” from beginning to end is a desperate provocation, blows to the gut and other pain points in a maddened world) is not in trend today. Today, in order to avoid troubles from one or another “watcher of culture,” it is necessary to reward something that is understandable, transparent, and decent, at least in appearance (cultural ministers-administrators are not much of a reader of hidden meanings, so the front in an aesthetic package is passing for now).

By and large, three performances could compete for the main prize in drama - “Best Performance” - in terms of scale and level of understanding of the existential problems of our time: “The Thunderstorm” by Moguchy, “Hamlet” by Dodin and “Three Sisters” by Timofey Kulyabin. At the same time, it was clear that Kulyabin with “Tannhäuser” had a history of being a bad match for the main “Mask” of the season. I even imagined a wonderful picture - how Moguchiy or Dodin, having received the Grand Prix (and each of these masters of “Masks” already has more than five), solemnly transfers his award to a younger comrade, while the audience gives a standing ovation. Actually, after Kulyabin’s “Three Sisters”, where the sisters communicate in the language of the deaf and dumb (today’s society does not hear educated and cultured people, you can’t argue), were selected for the program of the Vienna Theater Weeks and experienced a real triumph among the sophisticated public there, “The Mask ” could be given to this young theater author without looking. But the only thing the jury was able to do for Kulyabin was to offer a special prize, and even then not to him, but to the acting ensemble of the play (Kulyabin’s name is not in the wording of the special prize, you can check on the “Masks” website). And this is another decision behind which there is iron calculation. And the Grand Prix went to a performance that was not so much outstanding as correct: “Russian Novel” by Mindaugas Karbauskis - a story about Leo Tolstoy with the main character Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya performed by Evgenia Simonova. Here we must admit that the Lithuanian playwright Marius Ivaskevicius wrote an elegant, intelligent play about the characteristics of the national family (Russian, of course), and his personal “Mask” is the only award in this case that does not raise any questions.

However, it was not possible to keep what is called a “good face” everywhere. The Golden Mask looks like a real embarrassment to Bob Wilson, a director from the USA who had a reputation as one of the best directors in the world, when not all the jury members were even born. So Wilson (attention) managed to be awarded as “Best Lighting Designer in Musical Theatre.” For those who are not in the know: working with light, which Wilson spends more than 300 hours on for each new production, is one of the key substantive discoveries of his directing, but he made it several decades ago. Last year, let me remind you, Wilson staged “Pushkin’s Tales” at the Theater of Nations with Yevgeny Mironov in the role of Pushkin. And how right the theater was when it refused on principle to be nominated for “The Mask.”

However, the list of nominated directors this year reached almost thirty people. And this, on the one hand, greatly increases the rating of the winner, Andrei Moguchy, and on the other hand, it smacks of absurdity. There was a place for almost everyone more or less worthy, but there was no place for Kirill Serebrennikov and Konstantin Bogomolov. Well, if you, gentlemen, have nominated so many young people, then let the public learn at least one new name. Well, yes, let’s say that there are few performances that can compare with “The Thunderstorm” - and the furor of the performance during the capital’s showings confirmed this. But the jury could have disposed of the special prizes differently. It could, but walking along the beaten paths is, of course, safer. Safer.

And, of course, this “Mask” revealed not only nationwide diseases, but also the problems of “our Vasyuki”. With all due respect, facts are stubborn things. Federal theaters operating in St. Petersburg bring a harvest of “Masks” every year, and for all the city’s seasons the Musical Comedy is in charge (other theaters not only did not become laureates, but were not even nominated). Apparently, without tangible changes the situation in theatrical St. Petersburg cannot be changed for the better.

Zhanna Zaretskaya, Fontanka.ru

MOSCOW, April 19 – RIA Novosti. About 50 awards were presented at the Golden Mask theater award ceremony, which took place on Wednesday at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow. Conductor Teodor Currentzis, actor Danila Kozlovsky and director Andrei Moguchiy - best director for the second year in a row - did not go without awards.

The Golden Mask 2017 festival featured 74 performances from 25 Russian cities. The number of nominees for the national theater award was a record - 213 directors, actors, artists, composers, and playwrights.

Among those who received the largest number of nominations are the capital's Bolshoi Theater, the Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater, the Maly Drama and Bolshoi Drama Theaters of St. Petersburg, the Mossovet Theater and the Red Torch (Novosibirsk).

The solemn ceremony was attended by the director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, the famous theater director Robert Sturua, the chief director of RAMT Alexey Borodin, Marina and Dmitry Brusnikin, the head of the Union of Theater Workers Alexander Kalyagin, the actress of the Mossovet Theater, People's Artist of Russia Nina Drobysheva.

Before the presentation of the awards, the director of the Golden Mask, Maria Revyakina, asked the audience to remember with a minute of silence Georgy Taratorkin, who headed the award for more than 20 years and died in 2017.

Drama

The main prize of the award for the best dramatic performance of a large form went to "Russian Novel" of the Mayakovsky Theater. And for the second year in a row, the jury recognized Andrei Moguchy, who staged the play “The Thunderstorm” at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, as the best director. The jury also awarded "Magadan/Cabaret" of the theater "Near Stanislavsky's House" as the best dramatic performance of a small form.

Kozlovsky was recognized as the best dramatic actor for the role of Hamlet at the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg.

“I would like to take the opportunity to thank my dear people. First of all, this is my teacher, director of the Maly Drama Theater Lev Dodin, who has some power, strength, inner drama not to stage Hamlet in a comfortable form, but to ask questions in it, which today one cannot help but ask... I want to say thank you to the family, parents and mother, who often asked me where her mask was, and now she has it,” Kozlovsky said at the award ceremony.

The best dramatic actress was Evgenia Simonova, who played Sofia Tolstoy in the play “Russian Novel” at the Mayakovsky Theater. The award 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 the male award went to Holgen Münzenmayer, who played the role of the Deacon in the play “Once Upon a Time” at the Sharypovo Drama Theater.

Opera

“I am a happy person because I am a musician, and I strive to be the best both musician and person... The purpose of creativity is to bring happiness to people,” Currentzis said at the award ceremony.

The best director in opera, according to the jury, was Richard Jones, who staged the opera Rodelinda at the Bolshoi Theater. "Rodelinda" was also recognized as the best performance in the opera.

The prize for best actress in an opera was given to Nadezhda Pavlova, who performed Violetta Valerie in La Traviata at the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater in Perm, and for the best male role in opera - Liparit Avetisyan for Chevalier des Grieux in the operetta Manon at the Stanislavsky Musical Theatre. and Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Operetta and musical

The winner of the award in the category “Best Performance in an Operetta/Musical” was “Bindyuzhnik and the King” of the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk. In the nomination "Best Actress in a Musical Operetta" the winner was Maria Biork for her role as Sonya in the play "Crime and Punishment" at the Musical Theater, directed by Andrei Konchalovsky. Composer Eduard Artemyev was also awarded a prize for his work in this performance.

The “Golden Mask” for the best male role in this category was awarded to Viktor Krivonos for his role in the play “White. Petersburg” at the Musical Comedy Theater in St. Petersburg.

The award for best supporting actor in an operetta/musical went to Vladimir Galchenko from the Gorky Drama Theater in Samara. The best director in an operetta/musical was Roman Feodori from the Theater for Young Spectators in Krasnoyarsk, and the conductor was Andrey Alekseev of the Musical Comedy Theater in St. Petersburg.

Ballet

The prize for the best female role in ballet and modern dance was given to Victoria Tereshkina for her role in the play "Violin Concerto #2" at the Mariinsky Theater, and for the best male role in ballet - Igor Bulitsyn, who played Mercutio in "Romeo and Jelliette" at the Opera and Ballet Theater In Ekaterinburg.

The best conductor in ballet was Pavel Klinichev for the Bolshoi Theater's play "Ondine", which, however, was not an intrigue, since he was the only contender for the award in this category for three different performances.

The jury recognized the performance "Violin Concerto #2" by Anton Pimonov at the Mariinsky Theater as the best work by a choreographer/choreographer in ballet and modern dance.

The best performance in modern dance was named “All Roads Lead North” by the Moscow Ballet Theatre. At the same time, the prize for the best performance in ballet was awarded to the Opera and Ballet Theater in Yekaterinburg for “Romeo and Juliet”.

Special prizes

The prize "For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Theatrical Art" was awarded to the artistic director of the Dagestan Kumyk Music and Drama Theater Aigum Aigumov, the soloist of the Mariinsky Theater Irina Bogacheva, People's Artist of Russia and Yakutia Andrei Borisov, the Georgian director, screenwriter, playwright, artist, artistic director of the Tbilisi Puppet Theater Rezo Gabriadze, actor and director of the Omsk Musical Theater Georgy Kotov, actor of the Alexandrinsky Theater Nikolai Marton, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and "Snuffboxes" Oleg Tabakov and actor of the Vakhtangov Theater Vladimir Etush.

The “Art, Science and Sports” charity foundation, founded in 2006 by Russian businessman and philanthropist Alisher Usmanov, was awarded an honorary prize “For support of the theatrical art of Russia.”

About 50 awards were presented at the Golden Mask theater award ceremony, which took place on Wednesday at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater 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.

Evgenia Smirnova was recognized as the best dramatic artist for her role in the play “Russian Novel” at the Mayakovsky Theater. Danila Kozlovsky became a laureate in the category “Best Actor in a Large Formal Drama” for his role as Hamlet in the MDT – Theater of Europe play of the same name.

Conductor Teodor Currentzis also won the National Theater Award “Golden Mask” 2017 for his work on the opera “La Traviata”. In the “Modern Dance” category, the performance “All Roads Lead North” was recognized as the best.

Full list of laureates:

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/PERFORMANCE

BINDYUSHNIK AND THE KING, Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/CONDUCTOR’S WORK

Andrey ALEXEEV, “White. Petersburg", Musical Comedy Theatre, St. Petersburg

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Roman FEODORI, “Bindyuzhnik and the King”, Theater for Young Spectators, Krasnoyarsk

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/FEMALE ROLE

Maria BIORK, Sonya, “Crime and Punishment”, Musical Theatre, Moscow

OPERETTA–MUSICAL/MALE ROLE

Victor KRIVONOS, Apollon Apollonovich Ableukhov, “White. Petersburg", Musical Comedy Theatre, St. Petersburg

OPERETTA-MUSICAL/BEST SUPPORTING ROLE

Vladimir GALCHENKO, Prince of Serpukhov, “The Story of a Horse”, Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky, Samara

BALLET/PERFORMANCE

ROMEO AND JULIET, Opera and Ballet Theater, Ekaterinburg

CONTEMPORARY DANCE/PERFORMANCE

ALL ROUTES LEAD TO THE NORTH, Ballet Moscow Theater, Moscow

BALLET/CONDUCTOR'S WORK

Pavel KLINICHEV, “Ondine”, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

BALLET–MODERN DANCE/ WORK OF A CHOREOGRAPHER–CHOREOGRAPHER

Anton PIMONOV, “Violin Concerto No. 2”, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

BALLET–MODERN DANCE/FEMALE ROLE

Victoria TERESHKINA, “Violin Concerto No. 2”, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

BALLET–MODERN DANCE/MALE ROLE

Igor BULYTSYN, Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Opera and Ballet Theatre, Ekaterinburg

OPERA/PLAY

RODELINDA, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

OPERA/CONDUCTOR'S WORK

Theodor KURENTZIS, La Traviata, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

OPERA/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Richard JONES, Rodelinda, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

OPERA/FEMALE ROLE

Nadezhda PAVLOVA, Violetta Valeri, “La Traviata”, Opera and Ballet Theater. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

OPERA/MALE ROLE

Liparit AVETISYAN, Chevalier des Grieux, “Manon”, Musical Theater named after. K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Moscow

WORK OF A COMPOSER IN MUSICAL THEATER

Eduard ARTEMYEV, “Crime and Punishment”, Musical Theatre, Moscow

SPECIAL MUSICAL THEATER JURY AWARDS

Performance “the_Marusya”, Dialogue Dance Company, Kostroma

Performance “Hercules”, Bashkir Opera and Ballet Theater, Ufa

ARTIST'S WORK IN MUSICAL THEATER

Ethel IOSHPA, “Salome”, New Opera Theatre, Moscow

WORK OF A COSTUME DESIGNER IN MUSICAL THEATER

Elena TURCHANINOVA, “The Snow Maiden”, “Old House” theater, Novosibirsk

WORK OF A LIGHTING DESIGNER IN A MUSICAL THEATER

Robert WILSON, La Traviata, Opera and Ballet Theatre. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Perm

DRAMA/ARTIST'S WORK

Nikolai ROSCHIN, “The Raven”, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/COSTUME DESIGNER

Elena SOLOVIOVA, “Ship of Fools”, Gran Theater, Novokuibyshevsk

DRAMA/LIGHTING DESIGNER

Alexander MUSTONEN, “Bald Cupid”, Moscow Theater for Young Spectators

COMPETITION "EXPERIMENT"

THE SNOW Maiden, Theater "Old House", Novosibirsk

DOLLS/PERFORMANCE

KOLINO ESSAY, Producer center "KontArt", St. Petersburg

PUPPETS/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Natalya PAKHOMOVA, “The Tale with Closed Eyes “Hedgehog in the Fog””, Moscow Puppet Theater

DOLLS/ARTIST'S WORK

Victor ANTONOV, “Iron”, Puppet Theater of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk

DOLLS/ACTOR'S WORK

Anna SOMKINA, Alexander BALSANOV, “Kolino’s composition”, Producer center “KontArt”, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/PLAY OF LARGE FORM

RUSSIAN NOVEL, Theater named after. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

DRAMA/ SMALL FORM PERFORMANCE

MAGADAN/CABARET, Theater "Near Stanislavsky's House", Moscow

DRAMA/DIRECTOR'S WORK

Andrey MOGUCHIY, “The Thunderstorm”, Bolshoi Drama Theatre. G.A. Tovstonogov, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/FEMALE ROLE

Evgenia SIMONOVA, Sofya Tolstaya, “Russian Novel”, Theater named after. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

DRAMA/MALE ROLE

Danila KOZLOVSKY, Hamlet, “Hamlet”, Maly Drama Theater – Theater of Europe, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/SUPPORTING ROLE

Elena NEMZER, Pantaloon, “The Raven”, Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg

DRAMA/MALE SUPPORTING ROLE

Holger MUNZENMAIER, Deacon, “Once upon a time,” Drama Theatre, Sharypovo

DRAMA/WORK OF PLAYWRIGHT

Marius IVASKEVIČIUS, “Russian Novel”, Theater named after. Vl. Mayakovsky, Moscow

SPECIAL PRIZES OF THE JURY OF DRAMA AND PUPPET THEATER

Acting ensemble of actors in the play “Three Sisters”, Red Torch Theater, Novosibirsk

Igor Volkov, Vitaly Kovalenko, Elena Vozhakina - actors in the play “Beyond the Curtain”, Alexandrinsky Theater, St. Petersburg

AWARD "FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEATER ARTS"

Aigum AIGUMOV, artistic director of the Dagestan Musical and Drama Theater named after. A.P. Salavatova, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, laureate of the State Prize of the Government of the Republic of Dagestan.

Irina BOGACHEVA, soloist of the Mariinsky Theater, People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of the USSR State Prize, Laureate of the Highest Theater Award of St. Petersburg "Golden Sofit" "For outstanding contribution to the theatrical culture of St. Petersburg."

Andrey BORISOV, theater and film artist, director, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Altai Republic.

Rezo GABRIADZE, Georgian film director and screenwriter, playwright, artist, sculptor, artistic director of the Tbilisi Puppet Theater.

Georgy KOTOV, actor and director of the Omsk Musical Theatre, People's Artist of the RSFSR. Nikolai MARTON, actor of the Alexandrinsky Theater, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.

Oleg TABAKOV, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov, People's Artist of the USSR, Laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

Vladimir ETUSH, actor of the Theater named after. Evg. Vakhtangov, People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the Theater School named after. B. Shchukina.

PRIZE “FOR SUPPORT OF THE THEATER ARTS OF RUSSIA”

Charitable Foundation "Art, Science and Sports"

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.

“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