From 4 to 12 August 2018 in the territory ancient city Tauride Chersonesus will host the II International music Festival"Opera in Chersonesos".
The event was organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture Russian Federation, the Government of Sevastopol, the Rostec State Corporation, the Russian Helicopters Holding, the Red Square media group and the My History Foundation for the Support of Humanities.
“Opera in Chersonesos” has become a new landmark event among Russian classical art festivals. Last year, the event was attended by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. The event attracts guests with a unique combination of place and action - the ancient spirit of the ancient city of Chersonesus, included in the list world heritage UNESCO, and immortals musical works executable under open air stars of Russian and world opera.
“This year the “Opera in Chersonesos” project sets itself a new high bar, preparing a program that has expanded both genre and geographically. Conceptually, it will become a living history of the formation of classical art, reflecting key milestones its development and revealing Russia as part of a large European culture“says Oleg Berkovich, head of the organizing committee of the Opera in Chersonesos festival.
August 4, on the day dedicated to the Year of Russian Ballet, spectators will enjoy a performance by world ballet stars who will perform parts from legendary European productions - “Corsair”, “Giselle”, “ Swan Lake", "Don Quixote".
10th of August The musical program will open with the opera “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell, staged by the Moscow Theater “ New Opera" them. E.V. Kolobov, whose libretto is based on the fourth book of Virgil’s Aeneid. The magical atmosphere of the ancient city of Chersonesus will take viewers to the era of the legendary Carthage, telling the love story of the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Queen of Carthage Dido.
11th August will take place international gala concert. The best opera arias from European and domestic works XVIII-XIX centuries performed by foreign and Russian performers, among whom are Melanie Diener (Germany), Oksana Shilova ( Mariinskii Opera House), Valeria Mela (Italy), Sergey Radchenko ( Grand Theatre), Dmitry Ribero-Ferreira (Russia-Columbia-USA), Olga Tolkmit (Helikon Opera), Valery Alekseev (Bolshoi Theater), Artem Krutko (Moscow Novaya Opera).
Final day - 12th of August- will give listeners the great Russian opera of P.I. Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" is an invariable component of the repertoire of the best music venues in the world. The work will be performed by the theater's leading cast
"New Opera", which received a national award for its production theater award « Golden mask».
The program of the summer music festival will also include two chamber concerts in the amphitheater of Chersonese Tauride - “Two Centuries of Russian Romance” and “Tango Around the World” performed by Colombian Dmitry Ribero-Ferreira.
“The fate of Chersonesus is inextricably linked with the history of the world’s greatest civilizations: Greece, the Roman Empire, and, of course, Ancient Russia. And any civilization is, first of all, culture. It is very important for us today that Chersonesos has become such an amazing meeting place with the highest culture. And “Opera in Chersonesus,” which was held for the first time in 2017, aroused such enormous and lively interest that it was absolutely impossible to abandon this idea. I am sure that in 2018 the festival program will once again pleasantly surprise our visitors and give us all unforgettable moments of joy from meeting real art!” emphasized Svetlana Melnikova, director of the State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Tavrichesky Chersonesos”.
The international music festival “Opera in Chersonesos” was first held in August 2017. For three days in the background ancient city-famous arias from classical productions were performed at the open-air museum, main theme Russian opera classics became the festival's main focus. More than 3,000 people attended concerts and performances within the festival.
The international festival “Opera in Chersonesos” started in Crimea this night. And although the name seems to clearly define the genre, world ballet stars performed at the opening. Thus, it was decided to celebrate the Year of Russian Ballet, which was declared 2018.
Vladimir Putin joined the guests of the celebration. After the gala concert, he thanked the artists, and then got acquainted with the project of a new cultural space that is being created on the peninsula.
Eternal classics of world ballet against the backdrop of the ancient city. Where else can you find such scenery, the artists said. Performing in Tauride Chersonese is the dream of many premiers and prima ballerinas.
“It’s a difficult venue, open air, but all the artists are charged with enthusiasm, they are ready for creativity, they are ready to show their high art to the public,” said the director of the production, National artist Russia Andrey Uvarov.
The festival is called “Opera in Chersonesos”. But the first concert last year created such a sensation that the organizers realized: it was time to grow. There was no doubt in which direction. It's the year of ballet in Russia, and its world stars are in Crimea. IN auditorium No free seats. A year ago, the president attended a gala concert. And this time Vladimir Putin came to the opening of the festival.
The artists brought masterpieces of world classics to Crimea - parts from legendary European productions: “Corsair”, “Giselle”, “Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote”.
Even for professionals, it is not an easy task to create opportunities in the open air to match the best concert venues in the world. For this purpose, more than 500 tons of equipment were brought to Chersonesos: light, sound, huge projection screens - so that a performance in the spirit of today. In order not to damage the unique UNESCO monument, special wooden paths were laid everywhere.
The audience, including People's Artist of Russia Ilze Liepa, appreciated the first evening Bolshoi Ballet. The festival here is already called the new calling card of Chersonesos.
“Perhaps it will be possible to build here a little more stage and watch entire ballet performances. I think that would be great. Once upon a time, my father Maries Liepa danced the ballet “Spartacus” at the famous amphitheaters of Greece and Rome. I think that it would all look very beautiful here,” said People’s Artist of Russia Ilze Liepa.
“The impression is amazing, unforgettable! In such incredible scenery, seeing world-class ballet stars is an experience of a lifetime,” says main director Sevastopol Academic Russian drama theater Grigory Lifanov.
After the speech, the President personally thanked the artists.
“It was nice to watch. I want to thank you. Miracle. Just a miracle. I love ballet, but mostly classical ballet. But what you did is impressive. So plastic, so beautiful,” said Vladimir Putin.
And this is just the beginning - many decided to stay in Crimea to rest.
In Chersonesos, the president also visited the Vladimir Cathedral, built on the site where, according to church traditions and the testimony of historians, Prince Vladimir was baptized. During the Great Patriotic War, the German invaders blew up the temple during their retreat, and only in the 2000s did active restoration begin. The abbot showed the head of state the new font.
On the special role of Crimea for Russian culture conversation with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and Governor of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov. Vladimir Putin was introduced to the project of a new cultural space, including a museum and theater and educational complex. It will be based on an opera and ballet theater with a choreographic school for 250 children.
“Sevastopol managed to select the lands, and they are already registered and ready for transfer. Now it looks like this,” said Olga Golodets.
V. Putin: “A sad sight.”
O. Golodets: “It’s sad to say the least. That is, not only have no funds been invested in culture for several decades.”
V. Putin: “There is also a boarding school there.”
O. Golodets: “Yes, this is a boarding school.”
V. Putin: “Here is the Opera and Ballet Theatre. Where will the artists and the troupe live?”
O. Golodets: “We have a special residential complex where all employees will live.”
The project includes a separate cinema and concert complex. Also an art cluster - staff from the Hermitage, the Russian Museum and Tretyakov Gallery. And a separate request from the residents of Sevastopol - a complex dedicated to the defense of the city.
O. Golodets: “Residents really ask that the leading painting, which has become a symbol of the defense of Sevastopol (it is in the Russian Museum), be exhibited here, because it is truly the brightest symbol of defense. We are now at the stage of geological surveys. Here it is very important to carefully approach the architecture of the project, to do it carefully and soundly.”
V. Putin: “The competition must be announced.”
O. Golodets: “Yes, with the participation of city residents, so that they, too, can express their wishes. Today we are talking about the fact that we must return the “metropolitan character” to the cultural space of Crimea and Sevastopol on a completely new level. This is very important, because the flow of tourists is growing day by day. Since the opening of the Crimean Bridge, 1.5 million tourists have already passed through it. And in seven months we see a tourist influx to the Crimean land of 26 percent.”
It is planned that everything cultural space will fit into the first coastline and will stretch for 13 kilometers - from the Kornilov embankment to Katernaya Street.
“The objects will create a new urban space. This will be a park space, an open area. In fact, it will be central park city of Sevastopol. Foreign experts, primarily architects, were brought in in order to fit these objects into architectural appearance. It will be a beautiful park. It’s shown here,” said Sevastopol Governor Dmitry Ovsyannikov.
V. Putin: “Let’s not delay, okay?”
O. Golodets: “Yes.”
The “Opera in Chersonesos” festival will last another week. Ahead best arias performed by leading Russian and foreign soloists and a final concert with Tchaikovsky’s classic “Eugene Onegin” from the owners national award"Golden Mask".
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The international music festival "Opera in Chersonesos" will bring together famous Russian and foreign opera singers, as well as young talents.
August 19-20 at State Museum-Reserve“Chersonese Tauride” will host the international music festival “Opera in Chersonese”, where famous Russian and foreign opera singers will perform: Veronika Dzhioeva, Vasily Ladyuk, Agunda Kulaeva, Alexey Tatarintsev, Vladimir Matorin and others.
The international music festival "Opera in Chersonesos" will bring together leading soloists, as well as young artists of Russian and foreign opera stage. The festival will take place with the support of the Government of Sevastopol. Over the course of three days, famous arias from classical productions will be performed against the backdrop of the ancient city-museum in the open air. The festival is expected to attract more than 3,000 spectators.
August 19 will be a big one gala concert with the participation of stars of the world classical stage. On August 20, young performers from leading Russian theaters– the future of Russian opera. During the festival, spectators will hear famous arias from Tchaikovsky’s operas “Eugene Onegin”, Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Sadko”, “Snow Maiden” and “May Night”. The following works will be performed from the stage: Puccini – “La Bohème” and “Gianni Schicchi”, Bizet – “Carmen”, Rossini – “ Barber of Seville"and many others, which are the property of the world opera art.
During the festival, the following will take the stage: leading soloist of the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater Vasily Ladyuk, laureate of the international competition “Maria Callas Grand Prix” and guest artist of the Bolshoi Theater Veronika Dzhioeva, leading soloist of the New York Metropolitan Opera Vladimir Matorin, as well as Opera singer from Italy Valerio Zgargi. In addition, Alexey Tatarintsev, winner of the first prize of the XV International competition named after Tchaikovsky, and Agunda Kulaeva, Russian Opera singer, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater.
“The ancient city of Chersonese Tauride is the most majestic archaeological monument in the south of Russia, and we are grateful and proud that our site was chosen for such a significant festival as the Opera in Chersonese.” Once upon a time here, in the ancient theater, right in the open air, our ancestors gave performances, sang hymns, and held important public events. Now it will sound here classical music, world-famous artists will come and perform the most famous works. We are glad that continuity has not been lost, art still lives today where it did thousands of years ago,” said Svetlana Melnikova, director of the State Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Tavrichesky Chersonesos”, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation.
“Ancient Chersonesus is a unique place where the feelings that awaken in us are greatly intensified and experienced much more vividly great art. By holding the festival in Sevastopol, this year we are placing special emphasis on Russian opera, emotional, deep, this is our huge contribution to the world treasury, says the festival organizer, head of the New Republic Foundation Oleg Berkovich. – The summer open-air opera festival on the ruins of the ancient polis has every chance of becoming one of the most beautiful events in the European cultural calendar. We hope that “Opera in Chersonesos” will not be easy musical holiday for citizens and guests of the city, but also an annual center of attraction for connoisseurs of opera from all over the world.”
Tickets can be purchased on the Krymbilet website, as well as at the city box office. The cost is 500-750 rubles, depending on the row and location. In the near future, tickets will also appear at the ticket office of the museum-reserve.
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From August 4 to 12, 2018, the II International Music Festival “Opera in Chersonese” will be held on the territory of Tauride Chersonese.
August 4, the day dedicated to the Year of Russian Ballet , spectators will be treated to performances by world ballet stars who will perform parts from legendary European productions - “Corsair”, “Giselle”, “Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote”.
“Conceptually, the festival program will become a living history of the formation of classical art,” said Oleg Berkovich, head of the organizing committee of the “Opera in Chersonesos” festival. “It reflects the key milestones of its development and reveals Russia as part of a larger European culture.”
On the first day of the “Opera in Chersonese” festival, a gala concert was prepared for the audience with the participation of world stars who performed parts from legendary European productions - “Giselle”, “Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote” and others. The evening opened with a performance of a pas de deux from the ballet Le Corsaire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin together with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District Vladimir Ustinov, Governor of Sevastopol Dmitry Ovsyannikov, Head of the Republic of Crimea Sergei Aksenov, Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov Tikhon, famous ballerina Ilze Liepa and other guests arrived at the “Opera in Chersonesos” festival and took seats in the front rows of the stalls.
10th of August The festival's musical program will open with the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell, staged by the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater. E.V. Kolobova. The atmosphere of the ancient city will take viewers to the era of the legendary Carthage, telling the love story of the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Queen of Carthage Dido.
August 11 in Chersonesos An international gala concert will take place. Guests of the event will hear famous opera singers leading Russian and foreign theaters: Melanie Diener (Germany), Oksana Shilova (Mariinsky Theater), Valeria Mela (Italy), Sergei Radchenko (Bolshoi Theater), Dmitry Ribero-Ferreira (Russia-Columbia-USA), Olga Tolkmit (Helikon Opera ), Valeria Alekseev (Bolshoi Theater), Artema Krutko (Moscow Novaya Opera Theater). They will sing arias from works of the 18th–19th centuries.
The program of the “Opera in Chersonesos” music festival will include two chamber concerts in the amphitheater of Tauride Chersonesos: “Tango around the world” and “Two centuries of Russian romance” , where the well-known “The Chrysanthemums Have Bloomed”, “Night”, “Coachman, Don’t Drive the Horses”, “Drunk Street” and others will be performed.
According to the organizers, “Opera in Chersonese,” just like last year, will be preceded by a kind of “prologue” of street actions and performances, and open charity concerts.
“Opera in Chersonesos” was held for the first time in 2017 and aroused such enormous interest that it was absolutely impossible to abandon the idea of holding the festival again, - says Svetlana Melnikova, director of the state historical and archaeological museum-reserve “Chersonese Tauride”. - I am sure that in 2018 the festival program will also pleasantly surprise our visitors!”
Last year, “Opera in Chersonesos” became a landmark event among Russian classical art festivals. The event was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.
This year on August 12th - on the final day of the “Opera in Chersonesos” festival, leading cast "New Opera" will present to listeners his famous “Eugene Onegin”, staged by the founder of the theater Evgeny Kolobov and awarded the “Golden Mask”.
The “Opera in Chersonesos” festival is organized with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the government of Sevastopol, the Rostec state corporation, the Russian Helicopters holding company, the Red Square media group and the My History fund for the support of the humanities.
“Opera in Chersonesus” is a large-scale project that has become one of business cards Sevastopol, new cultural tradition cities federal significance. The festival attracts guests from all over Russia with a unique combination of place and action - the ancient spirit of the ancient city of Tauride Chersonesos, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List, and immortal musical works performed in the open air by world opera stars.
For two years in a row, the event has been attended by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
The event was also attended by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, and Minister of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva.
The ancient city of Chersonese Tauride is the most majestic archaeological monument in the south of Russia. Its history is closely connected with the great civilizations of antiquity and the Middle Ages, of which it was an integral part for two thousand years.
The oldest ancient theater in our country, discovered by archaeologists, still retains its significance as a popular place for showing performances, holding concerts and other public events.
In 2018 the festival will present new program, expanded genre and geographically. During the four days of the festival, opera performances of “Dido and Aeneas” by G. Purcell and “Eugene Onegin” by P. I. Tchaikovsky, a Gala concert with the participation of leading soloists of the Russian and foreign opera stage, and thematic chamber concerts will take place.
August 4, in honor of the Year of Russian Ballet, world ballet stars will perform parts from legendary European productions - “Corsair”, “Giselle”, “Swan Lake”, “Don Quixote”. Music program will open 10th of August opera "Dido and Aeneas" staged by the Moscow Novaya Opera Theater.
“This year’s program has become brighter, richer and more diverse. The festival attracts world-famous artists, and of course, we try to create all the conditions for them. Ancient Chersonesos actually turned into an open-air theater. A special ballet covering appeared on the stage, making it easy and comfortable to dance on. This summer evening, for one day, Chersonesos certainly became the brightest point in the world of classical culture,” says Oleg Berkovich, head of the organizing committee of the Opera in Chersonesos festival.
11th August An international gala concert will take place. The festival will end 12th of August opera P.I. Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" performed by the leading cast of the New Opera Theater, which received the national theater award "Golden Mask" for the production. The program will also include two chamber concerts performed by Colombian Dimitri Ribero-Ferreira.