The Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) offers the viewer 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 of the first performance of the troupe took place on November 5. 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 in 1987 became laureates of the State Prize of Russia named after Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka. The building where the theater is located was designed by S. Brodsky. It was an outstanding Soviet architect. Musical theater (Petrozavodsk) is decorated with columns and sculptures. A 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 musical theater has the largest stage in the republic and is equipped with the most modern equipment. The auditorium is designed for 607 seats.
The theater constantly takes part in theater festivals in various 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 Actor". He is by far the youngest dancer to receive such a high award in the entire history of the award. Lighting designer Alexander Mustonen received the Golden Mask as the best lighting designer. The Nutcracker ballet staged by the Petrozavodsk musical theater is one of the best performances in our country.
Troupe
The Musical Theater of Karelia (Petrozavodsk) is a huge troupe with about 200 artists. The ballet troupe is considered one of the youngest in our country, its soloists work in various dance genres. The theater is served by graduates of the A. Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet, Perm Choreographic School, as well as artists from Japan. The artistic director of the ballet troupe is Honored Artist of the Republic of Karelia Kirill Simonov
The opera troupe is creative youth, laureates and diploma winners of various competitions, National and Honored artists of Karelia. Voices of opera performances of the musical theater: ten owners of the soprano, four - mezzo-soprano, five tenors, four baritones, two basses. The artists of the choir are ten sopranos, six violas, seven tenors, seven basses. Six guest artists also collaborate with the musical theater. The orchestra consists of sixty talented professional musicians.
The director of the theater is Elena Larionova, who has the title of Honored Worker of Culture of Karelia.
Opera repertoire
The musical theater (Petrozavodsk) offers its viewers a very large and varied repertoire. The poster invites the audience to ballets, operettas, musicals, concert programs and drama performances. The theater’s repertoire also includes the following operas:
- The Magic Flute (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).
- "Eugene Onegin" (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
- “Carmen” (Georges Bizet).
- “Madame Butterfly” (Giacomo Puccini).
- The Queen of Spades (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
- The Barber of Seville (Joachino Rossini).
- “La Traviata” (Giuseppe Verdi).
- Reed Flute.
- "Three brothers".
Ballet repertoire
Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) offers its viewers 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 (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky).
Other genres
The Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) offers its viewers the following performances in the genres of operetta, musical and drama:
- "Pinocchio.BY" (to the music of Alexei Rybnikov).
- “Go to Questland” (A. Pantykina).
- The Golden Chicken (V. Ulanovsky).
- “Beauty Nasto” (A. Salo).
- “Mother Cat” (L. Sepulveda).
- “Frost” (V. Maximova).
- “My Fair Lady” (Frederick Lowe).
- "Beware, Baba Yaga!" (V. Pleshak).
- "At the command of the pike" (M. Bushmeleva).
- “A glass of water” (V. Kondrusevich).
- "Teremok" (A. Kuligina).
- "Black Chicken" (R. Lvovich).
- "Count of Luxembourg" (Franz Lehar).
- The Bat (Johann Strauss).
- “Old Fashioned History” (a performance based on Soviet operettas).
- The Gypsy Baron (Imre Kalman).
- “The True History of Lieutenant Rzhevsky” (V. Baskin).
- "Silva" (Imre Kalman).
- The Babi Revolt (Evgenia Ptichkina)
- Osage County (T. Letts).
- “Dowry” (A. N. Ostrovsky).
- “My wife is a liar” (V. Lukashova and V. Ilyin).
- "The fruits of enlightenment" (Leo Tolstoy).
"Wait for me"
The Musical Drama Theater (Petrozavodsk) annually on the Victory Day presents a program called "Wait for me." Here we hear 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 poems from front-line soldiers . Spectators are always with great warmth and with tears in their eyes take this holiday event. The author of the theatrical concert “Wait for me” is Elena Leontyeva, Honored Worker of Culture of Karelia, and Snezhana Savelyeva, Honored Artist of the Republic, acts as the director. Actors create on the stage an atmosphere of expectation of victory, as those who fought for it, how they believed in a happy future, hoped to survive, how they loved ... On Victory Day, a theatrical concert will be shown on the stage of the theater. On the eve of the holiday, the troupe will make the “Victory Route” and show the program “Wait for me” in several regions of the Republic of Karelia. This is a kind of tribute to the theater’s propaganda brigades, who went to the frontlines with concerts during harsh war years, performed in hospitals and in front of partisan detachments in order to maintain the morale of the defenders of the Motherland. The goal 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 exploits.
Children's studio
The Musical Theater (Petrozavodsk) in 2009 opened its doors to future ballet stars. A studio was opened for children. It is headed by N. Galtsin, Honored Artist of Karelia and Russia. Recruitment to the ballet studio is carried out on a competitive basis. Here children of two age categories are engaged: a preparatory group (children aged 7 to 9 years old study rhythm with elements of classical dance) and the main one (10-12 years old). Students of the ballet studio participate in competitions and festivals, as well as go on stage with adult artists and take part in performances.