"Helikon-Opera" tour to Samara

12.09.2011

“Helikon-Opera” tour to Samara

On the 7th and 8th of September “Helikon-Opera” performed “Tsarina” by D. Tukhmanov on stage of Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The performance was supported by META Enlightment Charity Fund.

Helikon’s “Tsarina” opened the new season in this beautifully renewed theatre, which celebrated its 80th anniversary in June 2011. For the artistic director of “Helikon-Opera” Dmitry Bertman Samara is connected with the memory of his father, Alexander Semenovich Bertman was born in this city, which in the Soviet times was called Kuybyshev.
According to a theatre’s new tradition, the audition of young Samara singers by Helikon’s creative managers was held in the context of the tour. The members of the commission highly valued the skills and talents of Volga soloists.

Musical critic Irina Muravyova shares her impressions with the readers of “Rossiyskaya gazeta” here http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/11/carica-poln.html
We offer you a photo report.

Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet

Press-conference before the performance: (from left to right) principal conductor of "Helikon-Opera" Vladimir Ponkin, artistic director of "Helikon-Opera" theatre Dmitry Bertman, chief artistic director of Samara Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet Natalia Glukhova, Chairman of the META Enlightment Fund Valentina Sigayova, the director of the Department of OAO "Uralsib" in Samara Elena Bogatina

Helikon's artists and staff near Volga

An interview to the local TV channel. Larisa Kostiuk

Elena Semenova

Svetlana Sozdateleva

Larisa Kostiuk, Svetlana Sozdateleva and Elena Semenova

Elena Semenova and Alexandra Kovalevich

Vadim Zaplechny, Elena Semenova, Peter Morozov and Mikhail Guzhov

The chief of the department of cultural and educational programsof META Enlightment Fund Irina Lapidus, stage director of "Helikon-Opera" Natalia Dychenko and deputy of the artistic director of "Helikon-Opera" Rostislav Protasov