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Golden Mask launches in Estonia

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Golden Mask launches in Estonia


18.10.2019

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The international Golden Mask program opens on Friday, October 18, according to RIA Novosti. The first festival will be held in Estonia. Russian performance groups bring their most interesting works for the past fifteen years. Tallinn Mayor Mikhail Kylvart is sure that in this anniversary season of the Golden Mask in Estonia will help the residents of the Baltic Republic will be able to indulge into high art.

The opening performance will be the Kankan of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater. The musical, staged according to classical canons by director Miklós Gábor Kerényi, is based on the work of the famous composer from the USA Cole Porter. In the middle of the last century, his music was very popular on Broadway.

The festival program includes Seryozha by Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. Dmitry Krymov staged it based on Anna Karenina by the classic of Russian literature Leo Tolstoy.

Mossovet State Academic Theatre is to present the production of It's Not All Shrovetide for the Cat, where the famous actor Evgeny Steblov plays the main role. Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater from St. Petersburg will show the production of Konstantin Bogomolov's Glory. Moscow Pushkin Theater will bring to Estonia From the School, based on the play of the young Belarusian playwright Andrey Ivanov.

The performances of Russian creative groups will take place in Narva, Sillamae and Kohtla-Järve. Russkiy Mir reported that the program of the Golden Mask would be complemented by a concert by soloists of the St. Petersburg Musical Comedy Theater and soloists of the Estonian Theater, dedicated to the memory of Georg Ots. The program includes arias and duets from operettas, as well as opera arias from the repertoire of the great Estonian singer, accompanied by an orchestra of the St. Petersburg theater.

All performances come with simultaneous translation into Estonian. Seminars, master classes and lectures are held within the framework of the festival

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