2024-05-16 02:44:39
On Could 18 and 19, the long-awaited tour of the Moscow theater “Pyotr Fomenko Workshop” will happen on the stage of the Azerbaijan State Educational Musical Theater in Baku. Azerbaijani spectators will have the ability to see one of many theater’s iconic productions – the play “Wolves and Sheep” primarily based on the play of the identical title by Alexander Ostrovsky.
Director of the “Pyotr Fomenko Workshop”, Honored Cultural Employee of Russia Andrei Vorobyov advised journalists of the Russia-Azerbaijan interparliamentary friendship group led by State Duma deputy Dmitry Savelyev concerning the upcoming tour, the well-known efficiency and his expectations from the go to to Baku.
– Andrey Mikhailovich, so far as we all know, your theater has already represented Russia in Azerbaijan twice. What performances of yours have the Azerbaijani public already been capable of see, and why did you select Ostrovsky’s play this time?
– You might be completely proper – the upcoming tour is a continuation of our superb relations with Azerbaijan and one other long-awaited go to to Baku. The primary efficiency we delivered to Baku was “Household Happiness” primarily based on the story by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Pyotr Fomenko, the second was “Humorous Man” primarily based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s story “The Dream of a Humorous Man”, and now for the third time we’re bringing Russian classics once more – That is “Wolves and Sheep” by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Fomenko. That is, with out exaggeration, a legendary efficiency that was created a 12 months sooner than the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop theater was born, that’s, 32 years in the past.
– Within the earlier two instances, did you personally accompany the theater employees on excursions to Baku? What impressions did these visits go away you with?
– I used to be on the primary tour, sadly, I couldn’t go on the second, however this time I’ll undoubtedly go. Every time our theater’s excursions in Baku have been accompanied by nice consideration from the theater group. It ought to be famous that the viewers in Azerbaijan may be very nicely ready – they’re refined folks, nicely versed in artwork, together with theater, who know theater and find it irresistible. And each time we got a cheerful alternative to speak with folks in the identical language. We simply discover folks in whose hearts there’s a response to what we, the truth is, have been doing all our lives, to which we have now devoted all our efforts.
It is vitally necessary for us to be in Baku once more, and we’re able to go there repeatedly, as a result of it’s a fantastic metropolis, the place fantastic folks reside, the place there may be very tasty meals, unusually lovely avenues, streets and squares. On our first visits to Baku, its reconstruction came about proper earlier than our eyes, and we noticed how outdated five-story buildings have been laid out with marvelously lovely native stone, how streets and avenues have been cleared and widened, wires and outdated, pointless promoting, stalls have been eliminated, and new trendy buildings have been erected. , lovely skyscrapers. Within the renewed Baku, typically it appears to me that I’m in Paris, and after strolling a block, I all of the sudden discover myself in London.
Azerbaijan may be very enticing to us as, on the one hand, a state with a particular historical past, with its personal tradition, with its personal spiritual traditions, with its personal language, and alternatively, it’s a fully secular state, a really free, democratic nation, open to communication and cultural trade.
– Why was the Baku Musical Theater chosen as your touring venue in Could?
– This theater has wonderful acoustics, superb stage circumstances, that are best suited for exhibiting our efficiency in one other metropolis and on one other stage. Crucial factor for all of us – theater workers and artists – is to current the efficiency to the viewers of one other metropolis with out cuts, with none modifications, that’s, precisely within the kind during which it’s proven in Moscow.
– You talked about that the play “Wolves and Sheep” is already 32 years outdated. What has remained in it since its creation, and what has modified?
– In the course of the lifetime of the play, the solid of actors was up to date, and one replace occurred attributable to tragic circumstances – because of the demise of the artist of our theater Yuri Stepanov. He was a beautiful, sensible artist who was adored by the entire nation. However we needed to protect the efficiency, and as a substitute of Yura Stepanov, Alexey Kolubkov has been enjoying Lynyaev for a few years. And actually two years in the past, Folks’s Artist of Russia Galina Borisovna Tyunina, who all the time performed Glafira on this efficiency, got here up with the initiative to replace the solid. She mentioned that point passes, and it’s clear that it makes its personal changes that should be adopted. Due to the very cautious and severe rehearsals performed by Galina Tyunina, it was attainable to introduce new younger artists into the efficiency, who the truth is are under no circumstances alien to this materials, as a result of virtually all of them are graduates of the Fomenko workshop, or the Kamenkovich-Krymov workshop, or the Zhenovach workshop in GITIS. All of them went by a sure stage of formation in our theater. Due to this fact, the efficiency solely improved because of the emergence of a contemporary stream of younger vitality. This efficiency has change into much more lovely, even if younger artists have been launched into it as a substitute of the celebrities who handed the baton to the youth. I haven’t even modified the worth of tickets for this efficiency, and but this is without doubt one of the costliest sold-out reveals within the Fomenko Workshop. When a spectator is able to vote with rubles whereas going to a efficiency of Russian classics, it says quite a bit.
– We began speaking about theater schooling. So far as we all know, you run a studio on the Moscow Artwork Theater. What do you consider the follow of recruiting nationwide programs? And does Fomenko’s workshop plan to implement academic tasks in Baku?
– Sure, I’ve been instructing the craft of producer and supervisor on the Moscow Artwork Theater College for 10 years as a course grasp. And I really feel superb about focused nationwide programs. I consider that this custom, which dates again to the outdated Soviet instances, was clearly vital for cultural integration. The coaching of nationwide artistic personnel on the premise of the perfect theater institutes was completely carried out, and it’s fantastic that this good trigger continues – I’m very pleased about this and happy with our successes. On this sense, I wish to word the very and delicate angle of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, who pay quite a lot of consideration to points associated to cultural integration. I’m assured that the paths of mutual integration that exist already will solely strengthen and develop.
As for our theater “Pyotr Fomenko Workshop”, we have now very busy work in Moscow and an enormous variety of excursions. However each time we’re on tour, we, in fact, maintain varied artistic conferences, evenings of communication with the viewers, and grasp courses for college kids of native theater institutes. Typically we even carry our personal exhibitions, which we reveal within the lobby of the theater the place we quickly reside for excursions. If the host get together in Azerbaijan receives any proposals, concepts associated to additional joint tasks, and maybe not solely touring actions, but additionally the academic course of or internships, sensible occasions – we can be very pleased and, in fact, with pleasure We’ll reply to such an initiative. That’s, my direct participation within the upcoming excursions is aimed, amongst different issues, at strengthening ties with Azerbaijani colleagues and, probably, creating some agreements for the long run.
– And in conclusion: what do you personally anticipate out of your upcoming journey to Baku?
– After the primary tour, I visited Azerbaijan greater than as soon as on non-public visits, with my mates, however I’d name it not tourism, however a visit to superb locations, near me in spirit and worldview. We weren’t solely in Baku, but additionally went to admire the temple complexes, rested within the Caspian Sea, loved the views and, in fact, superb Azerbaijani delicacies. So from my new journey I anticipate actual pleasure and communication with fantastic folks. We’ll take heed to nationwide songs, watch grandiose nationwide dances, that are completely genuine and extremely lovely. We will certainly go to eat scrumptious Azerbaijani meals: dolma in grape leaves, kebabs, Baku pilaf – a totally uncommon, sudden dish of wondrous magnificence that I actually like. Azerbaijanis are very refined in gastronomy. They’ve completely superb nationwide delicacies, very delicate, very swish, like Azerbaijani dance. And, in fact, superb wine. There’s a particular place there – the village of Ivanovka, the place Outdated Believers reside and make superb wines. Particularly, there may be an autochthonous grape selection referred to as “madrasse”. It grows solely there, and no different wine will be made like that of Azerbaijan, just because this grape selection now not exists in any nation on this planet.
And, in fact, as a theater director, I’m wanting ahead to the chance to refresh our cultural relations with a beautiful metropolis, with fantastic spectators, which can result in the emergence of some new concepts and artistic tasks. We actually hope so.
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