At the Gala are invited to all the stars - those that shone at the Bolshoi, Russian and Western premiers. In the hall gathered politicians and diplomats. President Dmitry Medvedev called Great Russian national brand. The curtain rises, and the boxes did not immediately understand the shocking directorial trick on stage left this KamAZ, bustling people in overalls and helmets. And only when the builders began to sing the music of Glinka Choir "Glory", the audience quieted down.
Holiday marred celebrity couple Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev. They decided to leave the main theater of the country in St. Michael in St. Petersburg. It was a complete surprise to the leadership team and even to their tutors. They explained their care professional dissatisfaction, although the Grand Osia and Bob danced principal roles in various ballets.
His first prime minister after the opening - "Ruslan and Ludmila". This production by Dmitry Chernyakov broke all records, never before in this room do not applaud at the same time not so loud whistling. The action moved into the XXI century, which in itself is not a new technique. But if we add to this naked actresses, Farlaf, like a regular at the nightclub, and Finn, toastmaster at a wedding, it becomes understandable why this show for children under 16 not admitted.
shows
The fashion of high art - the trend in 2011. The staff speak Russian museums - reviving forgotten traditions. To get to the exhibition, people are willing to stand for hours. And in the cold and heat.
Endless string of people on Volkhonka - already an urban legend. 270 thousand people and it - only to Dali. Exhibition of the great Spaniard - one of the most speculative and far-reaching. For her sake, the museum has extended visiting hours in the evening - before 9PM. 25 paintings - paintings of Salvador Dali in Russia have never seen: 90 sheets of unique graphics, photographs from family archives.
The experimenter year - another unofficial title of the Pushkin Museum in 2011. For the sake of "Dior: under the sign of art," Pushkin has changed beyond recognition halls: dresses, hats, shoes, perfumes, accessories - from the Christian Dior, whose career was brilliant, but very short - only ten years - from Yves Saint Laurent by Gianfranco Ferre, John Galliano from. 100 works of art house Dior - surrounded by paintings by Goya, Picasso, Modigliani, Renoir. 20 paintings from the Louvre, Versailles, Orsay Museum.
Until the end of February Volkhonka "guests" by Caravaggio. Admire them offer in the gloom: the color of blood on the wall - paintings, snatched a ray of light. 11 paintings by Italian artist - a rebel and a reformer, has turned into a renaissance baroque. Not only - as many as 11! - To bring them to Moscow, Irina Antonova personally negotiated for almost two years.
"This is a unique event in general. Since, in principle, such an exhibition can not be. No one ever in the world, this is what our Italian partners, such exhibitions in other countries besides Italy, had no", - says the director of the Pushkin Museum, Irina Antonova.
Only masterpieces using only the finest museums in the world. Irina Antonova, warned its employees - in the coming year will be calmer. The queues will get longer, and no museum of silence. Otherwise, it can not be a jubilee year for the museum. Pushkin - soon Century.
Record the Tretyakov Gallery - 300 thousand people who saw Levitan. The first exhibition of the artist in half a century, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of his birth. More than 300 works from 17 museums and private collections in Russia: a textbook landscapes, known to many from school, unidentified portraits, illustrations for magazines, vignettes and sketches - iconic images of the Russian nature. Exposure - a lyrical journey through Russia, which can take without leaving the walls of one room.
"The public came to very different, and Levitan, all was clear," - says the Deputy Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Lidia Iovleva.
The sensation of the year - an exhibition of Nikolai Ge, entirely of Discoveries. On the question of the artist, "What is truth?" Restorers have answered a century later - "Mercy". This picture, which by means of X-rays found under the top layer of paint. On another work - "Peter I interrogating Tsarevich Alexis" - also found the "outsider": the artist initially wanted to place her son a little farther from his father.
And for the first time - 55 graphic works by the master. Series considered to be lost. In the 70s at a flea market it was bought by a Swiss art dealer. Today figures in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Without the help of sponsors about the "buy of the year" Tretyakov Gallery could not even dream of.
"Exhibition of Nicholas Gay, of course, goes beyond simply showing creativity of an artist of the XIX century - the director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Irina Lebedeva. - It has become such a bridge that linked the classical 19th century, the second half of his age and already XX".
"The unprecedented exchange of masterpieces." So called the exhibition "In Christ". The Italians have agreed to bring to the Tretyakov Gallery "Madonna with Child" and the double-sided altar complex Giotto in exchange for the masterpieces of Andrei Rublev and Dionysius - put them in Florence in the building of the famous Baptistery.
See the works of Giotto, whose name in Italian culture associated Protorenessansa an era, has come from different parts of Russia. Experts predict - Giotto - is the future attendance record. A Tretyakov Gallery, which is another 5 years for major exhibitions introduced the tradition of "Late Thursdays," that is, until 10 pm, thinking, not to declare a "late" one more day of the week.
How many exhibitions in 2011 were in the Multimedia Art Museum Director Olga Sviblova straying from the bill - more than a hundred. Always dressed in black, stylish, energetic, and the envy of many, slender - the result does not seem to diets, and employment around the clock. Time for sleep is not enough, she says. Their employees, in jest, calm - more work, the less scandals at home. Even about the anniversary of the House of Photography, which became the Museum of Art a year ago, was forgotten.
"We have not had the time, we did not have the forces we had so many things and projects that we have not even celebrated 15 years of age. We decided that we will celebrate 16", - said the director of the Multimedia Art Museum, Olga Sviblova.
Sviblova pride - the most high-profile projects in 2011 - video installation art group AES + F - plays one of the most mysterious works by Giovanni Bellini's "Allegoria Sacra". The original "Sacred allegories" never left the Uffizi Gallery. But in the Multimedia Art Museum brought "Portrait of a Young Man" by Bellini. Classic and contemporary - all under one roof, the connection to time - the original curatorial course.
Photos and videos, says Olga L. - a material that can not withstand constant exposure. That is why the Multimedia Art Museum in black and white pictures are replaced with color and contrast - almost every month. Photos from the personal archives of Federico Fellini. Pictures of Stanley Kubrick - before you go to the movies, the director spent several years working in magazines. This exhibition - another discovery of the year. On the versatile talents of Kubrick's long time did not even art.
book
- Well, that's brilliant stand and what kind of book in your hands?
- Book Dmitri Bykov, our well-known writer and journalist, I have a great dad his lover, in fact, a gift for him would be.
The Laureates "Great Books" before getting any cash prize only - 3 million rubles. From this year for the first time - and even a prime location on the shelves. Winners - Mikhail Shishkin, Vladimir Sorokin, Dmitri Bykov and Yuri Buida favorite readers - have copyright stands. No publisher dictates, which works to provide and how to arrange them in a store window - the writers have chosen for yourself, for Hamburg score.
"This means that earned a very important mechanism, - the literary critic Alexander Arkhangelsky. - It is important prize than? Literary" social security ". Let's give the money a good writer, that he lived to see the next book. And everywhere there are other : you gave the prize, and the buyer in a bookstore you begin to learn - you get paid for it. "
At the end of this year were just novels. Authors - Dmitry Bykov, Olga Slavnikova, Yuri Arabs, Mikhail Shishkin. Last book - "Pismovnik" - almost a year has been on everyone's lips, touching correspondence boys and girls staged at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. The result - and readers of online voting, and the jury gave "Pismovniku" the first place.
"It was born out of such a call to write about what you do not understand. Most importantly, you do not understand how the woman is arranged. All that is before this boundary between a man and a woman can be something to do with age, with the knowledge to achieve. But sooner or later you reach the border. Then there is a strange, incomprehensible mystery, "- says Mikhail Shishkin, winner of the" Big Book "of 2011.
music
The main musical event of the year was the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition. This year the organizing committee was headed by artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre, conducted by Valery Gergiev. A brilliant conductor and one of the best managers in the cultural sphere, Gergiev was able to revive the ailing. In Soviet times, the contest was prestigious, twenty years ago because of the intrigues and protectionism - dropped out of the holder of serious music competitions.
Under the direction of Valery Gergiev competition became more honest. Maestro radically changed the formula of the contest - the first time since its inception in 1958, he was simultaneously in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In the capital competed with pianists and cellists, on the banks of the Neva - singers and violinists. The contest was broadcast online around the world - and the performances and rehearsals. And just in time for competition opened after the restoration of the Great Hall of the Conservatory.
"We just wanted to organize a high level of competition, in a big way, and absolutely uncompromising, honest, fair to judge on appearances. To the extent possible, to judge not only me, but the names of jury members speak for themselves. And I think this competition is now glorious future, "- said the People's Artist of Russia, the artistic director of the Mariinsky Theatre Valery Georgiev.
However, there were at the competition and trouble. At a rehearsal conductor of the State Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov, Mark Gorenstein, in conversation with his musicians contemptuously tossed into the Armenian cellist Narek address Hakhnazaryan - "village." The organizing committee found it offensive utterance, and Gorenstein, had to apologize and leave the competition. And by tradition a scandal in the tournament pianists. Alexander Madame Lubyantsev, one of the most interesting participants were not allowed to finish. As a result, hundreds of spectators chanted "Shame," the jury even came out of the room.
A Grand Prix was awarded to the pianist Daniel Trifonov. For the first time in the history of the competition provided an opportunity for winners to declare to the whole world, in his most prestigious concert halls and with leading orchestras, including the "Carnegie Hall".
movie
Year of Triumph Russian cinema - so called in 2011 the first criticism. Awards of two prestigious festivals, Cannes and Venice, went to the directors of Russia.
"This small, but such a long road had to go, that he was in my hands," - said director Alexander Sokurov has received the lion of Venice. But Alexander Sokurov almost refused to participate in the festival.
Italians in November last year took in a movie contest, which was not fully installed - would beat the competition - Cannes and Berlin. From "Faust" - its most expensive and slozhnopostanovochnym project - Sokurov did not have time to beginning of "Monsters": ran out of money. But a month before the festival project in Russia recognized the social importance, and the film has received state support. In Venice, "Faust" has left behind the creation of Roman Polanski, David Kronnenberga and George Clooney. Jury chairman Darren Aronofsky said that the film has shaken everyone - in its decision the judges were unanimous.
"Helen" by Andrei Zvyagintsev also pointed out in Venice, where it was shown out of competition. The film has collected half a dozen awards at the festivals of three continents, including - Cannes. For six months now, bought for the show over 50 countries. At home, during the broadcast on television channel "Russia", the tape broke all ratings records. Domestic critics like summed up in December, called "Helen" "best of the year." What pleased the author, but has caused some annoyance.
"I did not expect that kinokriticheskoe community to prioritize the issue of social inequality," - said the film director Andrei Zvyagintsev. - The main thing for me was the fate of this man, her personally, the fate of this young man, Helen, a man whose name millions. "
The movie "Twilight Portrait" is also light up in the Venice film critics prize deservedly awarded the "Best Debut." Number of winning first feature film by Angelina Nikonova exceeded ten: a festival in Reykjavik, Thessaloniki, Stockholm, Honfleur, Warsaw.
Despite the success of foreigners in domestic box office films until the family favor. Charges of Russian films in the past year fell to 10%- almost three times less than before. So, for the same "Helen" had to use so-called "vertical rolling" when copies of a little, but the poster movie is a long time.
A "Boris Godunov" by Vladimir Mirzoev and completely made my way to the viewer through "word of mouth." Film version of Pushkin's tragedy, directed by conceived as a student, was able to realize only now - lacked funds. Many actors have invested in the band's own fees. But to hire "Boris Godunov" took only three of the Moscow theater. Almost immediately, the pirates have posted a copy of the picture in the network, preventing crew last opportunity to pay back the project. Vladimir Mirzoyev took an unprecedented step - has created a web wallet and urged the audience, who managed to download movies, list at least $ 100. During the first three days, according to Mirzoyev in his blog, the treasury has fallen more than 30 thousand rubles.
"Hopefully, we will in 10 years to save up for the new film" - director smiles.
Lyubimov without Taganka
The loudest care of the year. Artistic director and director of the Taganka Theater Yury Lyubimov left the theater he created. Tyrant and despot, according to the actors. However, the tyrants called all great directors, from Vsevolod Meyerhold. The scandal broke during the spring tour in the Czech Republic. According to the master, during the dress rehearsal of the play "The Good Person of Szechwan" artists in the presence of Czech colleagues refused to go on stage, demanding payment of the fee. As a result, the legendary director left the theater. But the retired 94-year-old master is not going to. He began work on two productions.
"Possessed" Lyubimov will put in the theater Vakhtangov, of course, Dostoevsky's novel will be reduced. New performance Lyubimov planned long ago, but now he decided to devote his events in Norway and a little bit - the actors Taganka Theater. As a hint - lime demons within themselves.
A December 12, 2012 at the Grand Opera premiere of "Prince Igor". Lyubimov boldly calls the "Polovtsian Dances" sluggish. And going to edit music, will this long-term co-Lyubimov, composer Vladimir Martynov.
A Taganka theater at the request of the team was headed by Valery Zolotukhin. Brought glory to this artist just shows Taganka set Lyubimov. However, scandal rocked, and other theaters. Twice this year I was artistic director at the Mayakovsky Theater. This position under the pressure of the troupe left Sergei Artsibashev, it took Mindaugas Karbauskis. This year was particularly evident that the old system that has developed in Soviet times, should be changed. As the theater needs to make money, how to pay the fees of artists and how to enter into employment contracts with them - all these issues will be addressed next year.
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03.01.2012, 18:51
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