The absolute winner of the contest it. Tchaikovsky Ganbaatar Ariunbaatar.
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Headlining cultural news last week was Vladimir Putin. On Thursday, the president visited the final gala concert of the winners of the XV International Competition. Tchaikovsky. Note that such a visit, Putin made during his first presidential term in 2002, he attended the final concert of the XII Competition. Tchaikovsky, for 13 years the country’s most important musical event of its field of view fell. The audience greeted the president standing applause. He said the welcome speech from the stage and walked down the hall, preferring government box seat in the sixth row, next to the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner Eva Wagner, who was part of the jury vocalists.
The main intrigue of the competition – who will be the Grand Prix – was discovered the next day in St. Petersburg. At the end of the concert on the stage the co-chairmen of the organizing committee, Valery Gergiev and Vladimir Medina to announce the name of the overall winner of the competition. As expected the musicians and critics to observe the course of the competition, at the Gergiev was not a foregone conclusion, the stage he admitted that even wanted to postpone the award of the Grand Prix for a while.
However, the maestro did not violate the rules of the contest and award the prize to the Mongolian singer. Baritone Ganbaatar Ariunbaatar received the first prize award in the amount of 100 thousand. Dollars. Note that a few years ago, the singer has performed with the ensemble of the Ministry of Interior Mongolia (and before that – he worked on the construction site, in a taxi), the miracle was in the company of the Buryat Opera and only a year later won at such a prestigious competition. For Competition. Tchaikovsky is unprecedented.
So, on Thursday night Vladimir Putin spent the evening in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, and the next day went to the Moscow theater Et Cetera. As it turned out, the chairman of the Union of theatrical figures of Russia, Alexander Kalyagin, when some time ago met with Putin, do not miss the opportunity and invited him to visit the theater. In the end the choice fell on the show “Faces” of hilarious stories of Chekhov, who was born, it seems, even before the birth of the theater Et Cetera, – two wonderful actor came up with it to tours. Performance however many years is a success. And now – and like the president who, when he came out of the theater and faced the audience, did not hide the joy of meeting with the beautiful, “But it’s not a theater stage and actors. And artists – chic ».
Sam Alexander Kalyagin last week met with the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medina. The reason for the meeting was to discuss the fate of the festival “Golden Mask”. On the eve of the ministry held a public hearing on the situation around the festival, where the President of the Theatre was invited. Alexander did not come to the meeting and explained the reason for his absence in an open letter addressed to the Minister: “I remind you that the sole founder (as I say,” father and mother “),” Golden Mask “is the Union of theatrical figures. And it seems to me at least strange that the discussion of our award organized by the Ministry of Culture “spur of the moment” with us or not pre-agreed time of the event, nor its size, nor the composition of the participants, “- wrote Kalyagin.
However, at a meeting with Vladimir Medina, as the press-service agency, “had agreed in principle on issues of disagreement in the theater community, including – improving the expert selection, the need to reduce the nominations, increase transparency and accountability directorate Award and Festival, the settlement of a number of legal issues related to the rights to the brand “Golden Mask”. On August scheduled first meeting of the working group that will develop a new regulation on the award. It will consist of employees of the Ministry and the Union of theatrical figures.
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