At the Bolshoi, there was a velvet counterrevolution

During the short period of musical leadership of Leonid Desyatnikov poster appeared in ' Wozzeck ', ' Die Fledermaus ' and ' Esmeralda '.

The man with the formation of St. Petersburg, who studied at the Conservatory with Boris Tishchenko, Desyatnikov first appeared at the Grand in 2005 as the author of the opera ... The scandal then, as you remember, was exaggerated in scale and rough on directing. Excited, ... Foremen on all attacks spoke softly: ... By the time he was widely known in narrow circles: its assets were listed among other chamber opera ... As well as music for films, ... Plus - this is important - the laurels of one of the most frequently performed in the world of contemporary Russian composers. After leaving the loud Alexander Vedernikov Desyatnikov presented to the public as a new music director of the Bolshoi Theatre. He had already looked in the marginal zlatoparchovyh interiors. Go to press conferences had not shaved, frock coat preferred something crumpled - velvet, was democratic, ironic, intelligent. I would like to add, too.

Formal results of Desyatnikov the post - a huge victory for the opera ... Ballet lived his life, regularly producing premieres of boring, the orchestra - its. All the major plans for past and future have been laid out before the season Desyatnikov, so that by and large he is the hero of the old Soviet comedy, ... But the arrival of his, personal qualities and, above all, a sober understanding of the forces and promised the problems the Big Velvet Revolution. alas. A year ago, Desyatnikov in an interview with ... Again, alas!. He pays it indirectly, for work on the ballet ... The venture is not easy, since the turn of Balzac in the novel, a play about the collective unconscious bohemian really could not have anyone. How it works after the sudden resignation, disguised as ... Hopefully in the corporate sense of humor desyatnikovskoe. I suspect even that his undercover personnel decisions, which he learned after the fact, - the tragedy is much smaller than for those who buy tickets to the Grand.

As the successor to Desyatnikov - the new music director Vasily Sinai, the contract with him, too, is not signed yet, but, of course, new responsibilities, he will combine with the post of chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre. A year ago, his name was called in the list of five ... So, in his person found a middle ground: 63 -year-old walked Sinai Lazarev and younger Currentzis, Yurovsky and Petrenko. He is a great conductor, a man weighted punching radical projects and tease the geese bohemian habits will not be. He is best known as a symphonic conductor, living in Europe since the seventies and not tearing the opera. In the early nineties - a music director and principal conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Orchestra of the Netherlands, and later principal guest conductor of the prestigious location - Orchestra BBC BBC. In this sense, Basil Sinai fits in imperial format of the Big.

Foremen for the main theater of the country was myagkovataya - it quickly ... Like others of his predecessors, to present themselves in the role of ... Alexei Ratmansky, Boris Akimov - they are all long taxiing on large positions in the Large. Akimov also formulated the main principle of personnel changes in the Great: ...

But there is another side. Perhaps the change is preceded by music director or blocking changes to the contract, General Director of the Bolshoi, Anatoly Iksanov. On the extension of his term, expiring this year, goes much speculation: whether to extend the contract for two years, or five, or do not renew at all, and comes complete change of administration exactly on the eve of the opening scenes of the historic.


That's brewing question can still be changed at the top managers, and the whole philosophy of management in the Great? . A puzzled, to bring the contents of which not much official secrets to all the curious. Then, at the time of termination of the contract will be appreciated by those who could, but did not do, and some would do, but could not. Personnel transparency will benefit the theater, power, and the audience. And to add charisma to senior management. Great, meanwhile reeling at all levels. If the first person of the main theater of the country do not know their own future, and the viewer in its relations with the Great could not feel confident.

Leila Guchmazova.

What do you think?.

Basil Barkhatov, director:.

- Change the music director of the Bolshoi says that people are looking for a. Leonid Abramovich - smart people with good taste, and maybe something in the situation it did not suit. Yet, apparently, a role played by the fact that the Sinai - a practicing conductor. As far as I remember from working on the ... Maybe Iksanov Desyatnikov and mutually understood that something needs to change? . For Leonid Abramovich - a wonderful composer and artist in the broadest sense, not the nomenclature unit.

And that change in leadership so often happens, do not see the nightmarish. European theaters and festivals often change their commissaries - the same Gerard Mortier went from one place to another not only in art, even for political reasons. In this sense, no big black spot.

Alexander Bakshi, composer, Laureate of State Prize of Russia:.

- Right, that Lenya left: the case of the composer - to write music, theater and even run by people who are engaged in the practice of performance: directors and conductors. In my memory there was only one exception, when the theater led Kirill Molchanov. Even Wagner, but he did his own theater, the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi or the - another thing. Composers would be good to organize a council under the composer's theater, but to lead... But not for me to judge. I myself have been thirty years never serve, and it is difficult to imagine myself in his office with his secretary.

We really have no musical quartermasters. In the world of these people with a flair largely determine the development of theaters and festivals. Not going in cycles on the famous, they need to combine business skills, artistic taste and a sense of the zeitgeist. This trend should feel quartermaster. Now do a lot Valery Shadrin on Chekhov Festival and Vladimir Urin in Mamta, but, by and large, in Russia, this was Diaghilev - others do not know.

The large theater, a large, it is a factory for production of performances, and to manage it, we need, as they say, specially trained people. I do not know, maybe the Sinai and be able to somehow keep track of all. The main thing is to not repeat history, when the deal can be alone, but must meet other.



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