Helikon Opera
Helikon Opera is a Russian opera company based in Moscow, specializing in unconventional productions.[1][2] Their main performing base is the 250 seat Mayakovsky Theater, the former ballroom in the palace of the Shakhovskoi-Glebov-Streshneva family who were patrons of the arts in 19th century Moscow. The company was founded by Dmitry Bertman and gave its first performance, Stravinsky's Mavra, on April 10, 1990.
Helikon Opera gives 200 performances a year, primarily in Moscow but also abroad, performing in the UK for the first time in 1997. The company's repertoire includes both mainstream works and rarely performed operas and chamber operas. In the past they have staged Fleishman's Rothschild's Violin, Hindemith's Hin und zurück and Prokofiev's Maddalena and were the first company to revive Tchaikovsky's Undine (1994) and to stage Prokofiev's The Ugly Duckling (1992).[3] In October 2010, Helikon gave the first performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa to be seen in Moscow in six years.[4]
During the restoration works on the palace, begun in 2006, the company has performed temporarily in a small theatre at 11 Novy Arbat.
Staff
- Artistic director, stage director — Dmitry Bertman
- Principal conductor — Vladimir Ponkin
- Set and costume designers — Igor Nezhny and Tatiana Tulubieva
- Director of creative groups — Ilya Ilin
- Chief chorus master — Denis Kirpanev
- General manager — Viktoria Pavlova
- Technical director — Rostislav Protasov
Soloists:
- Marina Andreeva (soprano)
- Alisa Gitsba (soprano)
- Anna Grechishkina (soprano)
- Marina Karpechenko (soprano)
- Elena Kachura (soprano)
- Tatiana Kuindji (soprano)
- Ekaterina Oblezova (soprano)
- Ksenia Viaznikova (mezzo-soprano)
- Elena Guschina (mezzo-soprano)
- Elena Ionova (mezzo-soprano)
- Larisa Kostiuk (mezzo-soprano)
- Nikolay Dorozhkin (tenor)
- Vadim Zaplechny (tenor)
- Anatoly Ponomarev (tenor)
- Andrey Vylegzhanin (baritone)
- Igor Tarasov (baritone)
- Sergey Toptygin (baritone)
- Sergey Yakovlev (baritone)
- Dmitry Ovchinnikov (bass)
- Mikhail Guzhov (bass)
- Dmitry Skorikov (bass)
and many other
References
- ^ CBS News."Russia's Love Of Opera" 17 March 1999.
- ^ Charlton, Angela. Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg. Frommer's (2010) p. 183. ISBN 0470537639
- ^ Stolyarenko, Lyudmila. "Rebels with a cause". Opera, Volume 48, Issues 7-12 (1997) pp. 1170-1171
- ^ Hodouchi, Ayano. "Bad romance, Tchaikovsky style". The Moscow News October 14, 2010.
External links
- Helikon Opera official website (English version)
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