BG on the trial of the producers of “Tannhauser”: The conviction will be the beginning of a new era of the Inquisition – TVNZ

BG in recent years publicly expressed very rarely. Solely on solid grounds. At this time, turn to your audience and everyone who he is known for his forced an unprecedented trial of the authors and directors of the opera “Tannhauser” in Novosibirsk. What theatergoers interpret a work of Wagner, may incur for the production of the play criminalize prompted Boris Grebenshikov write the following lines in Facebook, followed by Alexander Kalyagin and Oleg Tabakov:

– If our country allow the conviction of the director Timothy Kulyabin and Novosibirsk Opera, it will be a triumph of medieval obscurantism and the beginning of the era of the New Inquisition, – the musician. – – The use of religious prohibitions to secular art logically lead to the burning of books in the squares and the destruction of paintings and statues of the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery.

Recall that Boris Mezdrich, the head of the Novosibirsk Opera and director of the theater Timothy Kulyabin, which put performance of “Tannhauser”, located in the status of the accused in the administrative article “deliberate public desecration of objects of religious veneration,” March 4 and 5 appear before the court until the world.

However, there is a possibility that it can acquire the character of the criminal, it has engaged in checking the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.