Russian Musical Theater of Petrozavodsk: photos and reviews

Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) offers the spectator a diverse repertoire, consisting of performances of all musical and stage genres, from classical opera to modern comedy.

About the theater

The Russian Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) has existed since 1955. The premiere show of the first performance of the troupe was held on November 5th. It was the operetta "Free Wind" by Isaac Dunaevsky. The theater became famous thanks to the ballet "Sampo". Its authors - composer G. Sinisalo and choreographer I. Smirnov, as well as performers of leading parties became in 1987 the laureates of the State Prize of Russia. Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. The building, where the theater is located, was built according to the project of S. Brodsky. He was an outstanding Soviet architect. The musical theater (Petrozavodsk) is decorated with columns and sculptures. Photo of the building is presented in this article.

In 2006, the reconstruction of the theater began. It was completed in 2009. To date, the music theater has the largest stage in the country and is equipped with the most modern equipment. The auditorium is designed for 607 seats.

The theater constantly takes part in theater festivals in different cities of Russia and abroad. The ballets "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cinderella" were nominated for the Golden Mask Award. The performer of the party Mercutio - Vladimir Varnava - became the winner in the nomination "Best male role". He is by far the youngest dancers who received such a high award in the history of the award. Lighting designer Alexander Mustonen received the "Golden Mask" as the best lighting artist. The ballet "The Nutcracker" in the production of the musical theater of Petrozavodsk is among the best performances of our country.

Troupe

The Musical Theater of Karelia (Petrozavodsk) is a huge troupe, in which there are about 200 artists. The ballet troupe is considered to be one of the youngest in our country, its soloists work in various dance genres. The theater is supported by graduates of the A.Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Perm Choreography School, as well as artists from Japan. Artistic director of the ballet troupe - Honored Artist of the Republic of Karelia Kirill Simonov

The opera troupe is creative youth, laureates and students of various competitions, People's and Honored Artists of Karelia. Voices of opera performances of the musical theater: ten soprano owners, four - mezzo-soprano, five tenors, four baritones, two basses. The choir artists are ten sopranos, six violas, seven tenors, seven basses. With the musical theater also six invited artists collaborate. The orchestra consists of sixty talented professional musicians.

Director of the theater is Elena Larionova, who has the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Karelia.

Opera repertoire

To its viewers a very large and diverse repertoire is offered by the musical theater (Petrozavodsk). The poster invites the public to the ballets, operettas, musicals, concert programs and dramatic performances. Also in the repertoire of the theater there are the following operas:

• "The Magic Flute" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).
• "Eugene Onegin" (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
• "Carmen" (Georges Bizet).
• "Madame Butterfly" (Giacomo Puccini).
• "The Queen of Spades" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
• "The Barber of Seville" (Joachino Rossini).
• "Traviata" (Giuseppe Verdi).
• "Reed pipe".
• "Three brothers".

Ballet repertoire

Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) offers its spectators the following ballet performances:

• "Anna Karenina" (Rodion Shchedrin).
• "Giselle" (Adolf Adana).
• "Cinderella" (Sergei Prokofiev).
• "The Little Humpbacked Horse" (Rodion Shchedrin).
• "The Corsair" (Adolf Adana).
• "Romeo and Juliet" (Sergei Prokofiev).
• "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (Felix Mendelssohn).
• The Nutcracker (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky).

Other genres

Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) offers its audience the following performances in the genres of operetta, musical and drama:

• "Buratino.BY" (to the music of Alexei Rybnikov).
• "Forward, to Questland" (A. Pantykina).
• "The Golden Chicken" (V. Ulanovsky).
• "The Beauty of Poe" (A. Salo).
• "Mother Cat" (L. Sepulveda).
• "Morozko" (V. Maksimova).
• "My Fair Lady" (Frederic Lowe).
• "Watch out, Baba Yaga!" (V. Pleshak).
• "According to the pike command" (M. Bushmeleva).
• "A glass of water" (V. Kondrusiewicz).
• "Teremok" (A. Kulygin).
• "The Black Hen" (R. Lvovich).
• "Count of Luxembourg" (Franz Lehar).
• "Bat" (Johann Strauss).
• "An unchanging story" (a performance based on Soviet operettas).
• "The Gypsy Baron" (Imre Kalman).
• "The True History of Lieutenant Rzhevsky" (V. Baskin).
• "Silva" (Imre Kalman).
• "Babi Riot" (Evgenia Ptichkina)
• "Osage County" (T. Letts).
• "The lackey" (A. N. Ostrovsky).
• "My wife is a liar" (V. Lukashova and V. Ilyin).
• "Fruits of Enlightenment" (Leo Tolstoy).

"Wait for me"

Theater musical and dramatic (Petrozavodsk) annually to the Victory Day is a program called "Wait for me." There are war songs familiar to all of us from childhood: "Katyusha", "Nightingales", "Ballad of a Soldier", "In the Dugout", "Roads", "Random Waltz", "Smuglyanka" and others, as well as verses of the front-line poets . Spectators always with great warmth and with tears in their eyes accept this pre-holiday action. The author of the theatrical concert "Wait for Me" is Elena Leontieva - Honored Worker of Culture of Karelia, as the director Snezhana Savelieva - Honored Artist of the Republic. Actors create an atmosphere of expectation of victory on the stage, as those who fought for it, as they believed in a happy future, hoped to survive, as they loved ... On the Victory Day, a theatrical concert will be shown on the stage of the theater. On the eve of the holiday, the troupe will perform the "Victory Route" and show the "Wait for Me" program in several regions of the Republic of Karelia. This is a kind of tribute to the memory of the propaganda brigades of the theater, who during the hard military years went to the front with concerts, performed in hospitals and in front of partisan detachments in order to support the morale of the defenders of the Motherland. The purpose of the "Victory Route" is to remind compatriots that the Great Victory was forged by the joint efforts of those who did not spare themselves on the fronts, who worked in the rear and who inspired the feats.

Children's studio

Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) opened its doors in 2009 for future ballet stars. A studio for children was opened. It is headed by the Honored Artist of Karelia and Russia N. Galtsin. Set in a ballet studio is carried out on a competitive basis. Here children of two age categories are engaged: the preparatory group (children aged 7 to 9 learn rhythm with elements of classical dance) and basic (10-12 years). Students of the ballet studio participate in contests and festivals, and also go on stage together with adult artists and take part in performances.