Helikon-Opera is flying to Mars
Its 26th birthday of «Helikon-Opera» will celebrate on Mars!
On the 10, 12 and 13 of April, 2016, the theatre invites audiences to a series of gala concerts called The Martian Opera - a colorful phantasmagoria about opera life on Mars.
For three days the halls of Helikon-Opera will be transformed into a huge spaceship, and the audience will embark on a flight across the expanses of the infinite universe. The expedition will land on the red planet, on which there is the highest mountain of Olympus. There, in the crater of a long extinct volcano, there is an old Martian Theatre, forgotten by everyone. Every Millennium opera stars arrive here, to the Martian Olympus from the distant galaxies to show their talents.
There are two reasons for this intergalactic meeting - the birthday of «Helikon-Opera» and the 55th anniversary since the first manned flight into a space fulfilled by Yuri Gagarin. Leading actors of the theatre will present fantastic gala concert The Martian Opera in the Stravinsky hall. In the program of the concert there are rarely performed on the stage of «Helikon-Opera» arias, Martian dances, special cosmic catering and the exciting quest, devoted to the cosmonautics Day. Chamber halls, lobby and atrium areas will be transformed into the zones for competitions and interactive programs. During these dates in the Zimin Foyer there will be presented the exhibition of unique photos from space provided by Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics.
Gala concerts "The Martian Opera" will take place in «Helikon-Opera» in the address: 19/16, ul.Bolshaya Nikitskaya, Moscow.
The shows start on the 10th of April at 16:00 and on the 12th and the 13th April at 19:00.
Tickets are available at the theatre box office.
