“Tannhauser” insulted the feelings of believers – Channel Culture

11.03.2015 | 10:53

 One of the most resonant events of recent times. The situation around the staging of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre “Tannhauser” was resolved. The court in Novosibirsk stopped both investigation into the opera by Richard Wagner. Theater director and director Boris Mezdrich setting Timothy Kulyabin fully justified.

 The court’s decision in Novosibirsk applauded.

 “I think it’s a cause for serious reflection, – said Boris Mezdrich. – I am very glad that Novosibirsk, after all, the city is normal. Acquittal gives hope that common sense is, and the judicial system responds to it. Many thanks and journalists, and colleagues ».

 This is the first thing told reporters director of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre Boris Mezdrich. The meeting lasted six hours. Today, the court acquitted the Novosibirsk Opera and director. “Tannhauser” at the scene of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Timothy Kulyabin introduced in December 2014. Success. More than three thousand spectators at the premiere. The title of “performance of the year” by the newspaper “Music Review” and claim the prosecutor’s office of Metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk Tikhon “Deliberate public desecration of religious or theological literature, objects of religious veneration, signs or emblems ideological symbols and paraphernalia or their damage or destruction.”

 The action of the play takes place in the present day. Film director, completes shooting erotic film “Grotto of Venus”, about the unknown years of Jesus. According to the director of that time Christ spent in the society of the goddess of love Venus. According to experts who spoke in court, not in the formulation of objects of religious worship.

 “The play is extremely talented – says Associate Professor Center for Religious Studies RSUH Boris Falikov. – It puts a very important and urgent problem of the relationship between religion and art. And there could be offended by the desecration of holy places? I do not as a spectator or as a theologian can not understand ».

 And the symbolism is not spoiled or destroyed. Around 50,000 people have signed a petition in support of the play.

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