Павловск / Pavlovsk - 1969
Павловск в 1969 году.
на снимках А.Булгакова
Pavlovsk in 1969
Photographs by A. Bulgakov
Pavlovsk Palace is an 18th-century Russian Imperial residence built by Paul I of Russia within the southern suburbs of Saint Petersburg and is one of my favourite places to visit.
Overshadowed by its near neighbour of Tsarkoye Selo, Pavlovsk is a delightful deep yellow classical building with classical elegance. The surrounding parkland was designed as a classic English landscape garden by the Scottish architect, Charles Cameron. An idealised landscape filled with picturesque architecture, pavilions and statues........
Михайловский дворец / Mikhailovsky Palace - Late 1940s
Михайловский дворец
г. Ленинград
Фотографии Сергей Шиманский
Конец 1940-х годов
Mikhailovsky Palace
Leningrad
Photographs by Sergey Szmanski
Late 1940s
Музыка
Концертный вальс - Богдан Ятор
Music
Concert Waltz - Bogdan Yator
Here I present a further set of photographs by the Soviet photographer Sergey Szmanski. This time they are of the Mikhailovsky Palace.
The palace was originally built for Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, whose father, Emperor Paul I set aside special funds for the building on the birth of his youngest son in 1798.
The Palace was the home of Mikhail Pavlovich and his wife, Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna, and then to their children and grandchildren until, in the 1890s, Emperor Nicholas II decided to buy the building and use it to house the Alexander III Russian Museum. Between 1895 and 1897, architect Vasiliy Svinin transformed the palace interiors into museum halls and, as the collection rapidly expanded, the Benois Wing (originally the Exhibition Pavilion of the Academy of Arts) was added between 1914 and 1919.
Remarkably, the architectural surroundings of the palace have changed little in the last two centuries........
Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia - Госуда́рственный Эрмита́ж
From its Imperial origins, the Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum has distinguished itself as one of the finest museums of the world. Contrasting historical paintings, postcards, and photos with their modern contemporaries, the Winter Palace and State Hermitage Museum come alive in breathtaking detail. Music accompaniment: Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers and By the Beautiful Blue Danube, composed by Johann Strauss II.
The New Hermitage Museum is expertly portrayed through watercolor paintings by renowned artists Konstantin Ukhtomsky, Edward Hau, and Luigi Premazzi. The works provide a glimpse of the Hermitage Museum as it was in the mid 1800's. Through the paintings, it's possible to get a sense of the world renowned collections, which include: The Room of Ancient Sculpture, The Cabinet of the Italian Schools, The Room of Russian Sculpture, The Gallery of the Flemish School, The Gallery of the French School, The Room of the Dutch and Flemish Schools, The Room of Coins, The Room of German Painting, The Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting, The Room of Cameos, The Gallery of Antiquities of Cimmerian Bosporus, The Raphael Gallery, The Room of Greek Sculpture, Voltaire's Library, The Room of Engravings, The Hall of Graeco-Etruscan Vases, The Room of Archaeology, and The Room of Manuscript.
Perhaps the most stunning paintings of the Winter Palace lavishly illustrate the rooms of the private Imperial Apartments. Paintings include: The Drawing-Room of Duke M. Leuchtenberg, The Large Study of Grand Princess Maria Nikolayevna, The Boudoir of Grand Princess Maria Alexandrovna, The Military Library of Emperor Alexander II, The Bedchamber of Empress Maria Alexandrovna, The Study of Emperor Alexander II, The Study of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna, and The White Drawing-Room of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna.
J. Strauss II - Russischer Marsch, Op. 426 - James Allen Gähres, cond., Ulm Philharmonic
James Allen Gähres conducts the Ulm Philharmonic in New Year's Concert.
Johann Strauss II
Russischer Marsch (Russian March), Op. 426
Live recorded during public New Year's Concert.
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Cover: Portrait of Johann Strauss II, 1887/1888, by August Eisenmenger, and the title page of the first edition of 'Garde á cheval, marche russe', with the dedication to Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, published by A. Büttner, St. Petersburg in 1886.
Strauss II - Annen-Polka, Op.117 - New Year's Concert, James Allen Gähres, cond., Ulm Phil:
Strauss II - An der schönen blauen Donau, Op. 314 - New Year's Concert, James Allen Gähres, cond., Ulm Phil:
The 'Russischer Marsch', one of Johann Strauss' 'characteristic marches', belongs to that group of new compositions with which the Viennese maestro charmed audiences attending his series of charity concerts in St. Petersburg in 1886. This trip to Russia, made at the invitation of the 'Russian Society of the Red Cross' and a children's charity, was to be Johann's final visit there, and came after a lapse of seventeen years since his last concert engagement at nearby Pavlovsk (1869). There had been many changes during the intervening years, and after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Nihilists in 1881, the autocratic power had passed into the hands of his son, Alexander III (1845-94). The court society which surrounded the new Tsar may have known little of life in Russia thirty years earlier, but was well aware of Strauss' reputation as the darling of the public, and as a favourite of the Imperial family, through his triumphant 'Russian summers' at Pavlovsk during the years 1856-65. The appearance of the Viennese maestro in St. Petersburg in 1886 once again occasioned an outbreak of 'Strauss fever', with shops offering pictures, busts and statuettes of the conductor/composer, while one enterprising manufacturer even produced 'Strauss Cigarettes' with Johann's likeness on the packet.
The venue for the 1886 charity concerts was the vast riding school of the Horse Guards Regiment in St. Petersburg, and the 80-strong orchestra of the Imperial Russian Opera had been provided for the concerts. While Professor K. Siecke was charged with the conducting of the symphonic portions of each programme, Johann conducted only his own compositions. The majority of the works he performed were those which had proved popular in Pavlovsk during the 1850s and 1860s, but these were supplemented by more recent works like the 'Brautschau-Polka' (Op. 417) and 'Schatz-Walzer' (Op. 418), both based on themes from his latest operetta success, 'Der Zigeunerbaron' (The Gypsy Baron, 1885). In addition, Johann composed four new works especially for his 1886 Russian visit - 2 waltzes, a polka and a march. It was at his third concert, on April 29, 1886, that he unveiled his 'Marche de Garde à Cheval' (March of the Horse Guard), written as a tribute to the Tsar's bodyguard in whose riding school the concerts took place.
Although the 'Marche de Garde à Cheval' is without doubt uniquely interesting, as the critic of the St. Petersburger Zeitung opined of this, its title does not really suit the character of the piece. Far from being a 'cavalry march', this work is more descriptive of heavily-laden Russian foot-soldiers trudging wearily through the snow, even to the extent of the diminuendo at the end of the piece as the column of soldiers disappears into the distance. Thus, much more apposite was the name with which the march was rechristened for audiences in Vienna when Johann conducted its first performance there as an encore item during Eduard Strauss' benefit concert in the Musikverein on November 7, 1886: the Russischer Marsch. This was also the title under which August Cranz published the work, together with the composer's dedication to his Majesty Alexander III, Emperor of Russia.
The march manage to convey a sense of that ethnic Russian musical style in its catchy theme and colorful orchestration. It opens with a brief introduction, after which follows the lively march theme, a hardy, boisterous creation that conjures images of colorful Russian dances and costumes. The music in the middle section is less Russian in character and, in fact, would sound quite at home in one of the composer's more Viennese works. Still, it has a sense of festivity and provides contrast to the music in the outer sections. The march returns in the latter part and the work soon ends, but not with the usual excitement: the march theme is quietly played by the low strings and the music slowly fades away.
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SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE BALLET (SAINT-PETERSBURG THEATRE RUSSIAN BALLET)Russian ballet Saint-Petersburg The Russian Ballet theatre was created in 1990 by a family of professional actors and soloists of the Maryinsky Theatre. The leadership can trace their lineage back more than one hundred years of a dynasty that dominated Russian Ballet.
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ЭРМИТАЖ. Hermitage
Music: Rostropovich Bach Cello Suite No.1 Prelude
Created by Tatyana Nikolaeva
The State Hermitage ( is a museum of art and culture situated in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise nearly 3 million items[2], including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building also make part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since 1990, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky.
El Museo del Hermitage (Эрмитаж, que significa ermita en ruso) de San Petersburgo, Rusia, es una de las mayores pinacotecas y museos de antigüedades del mundo. La colección del museo ocupa un complejo formado por seis edificios situados a la orilla del río Neva, siendo el más importante de estos el Palacio de Invierno, residencia oficial de los antiguos Zares. El resto del complejo arquitectónico lo forman cinco edificios, entre los que se encuentran el Palacio Menshikov, el Edificio del Estado Mayor y un recinto para almacenamiento abierto. El museo se formó con la colección privada que fueron adquiriendo los zares durante varios siglos, y no fue hasta el año 1917 cuando fue declarado Museo Estatal.
Su colección, formada por más de 3 millones de piezas, abarca desde antigüedades romanas y griegas, a cuadros y esculturas de la Europea Occidental, Arte oriental, piezas arqueológicas, Arte Ruso, joyas o armas. Su pinacoteca está considerada, junto con el Museo del Prado, como la más completa del mundo.
XIX Фестиваль цветов «Императорский букет». «Спектакль цветов» (2019)
XIX Международный фестиваль цветочного и ландшафтного искусства Императорский букет в Павловском парке. Нынешний фестиваль посвящён проходящему в России Году театра и поэтому тема фестиваля - Спектакль цветов.
20-21 июля 2019 года, Государственный музей-заповедник Павловск (г. Павловск).
В фильме использована музыка:
Johann Strauss - Sound Waves.
Palaces of St. Petersburg
in 1996 a highly successful exhibition from St. Petersburg Russia was in Jackson Mississippi for 6 months. This is the 10 minute orientation video visitors to the exhibition saw as they entered. 20 years of sitting on a shelf has taken a toll on the beta tape. But overlook the drop-outs and see the palaces once again.
Mariupol
Mariupol is a city of regional significance in southeastern Ukraine, situated on the north coast of the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kalmius river. It is the tenth-largest city in Ukraine and the second largest in the Donetsk Oblast. Population: 461,810 (2013 est.). Following the capture of Donetsk city by pro-Russian insurgents associated with the Donetsk People's Republic in 2014, Mariupol was made the provisional administrative centre of Donetsk Oblast. The city was retaken on June 13, 2014 by government troops and has been under heavy bombardment and the fighting has intensified as of August 2015.
Mariupol was founded on the site of a former Cossack encampment named Kalmius. It was granted city rights in 1778. Mariupol has been a centre for the grain trade, metallurgy, and heavy engineering. The Ilyich Steel & Iron Works and Azovstal propelled Mariupol onto the European stage in the 20th century as one of the largest and most productive plants. Mariupol played a key role in the industrialization of Ukraine. Between 1948-1989 the city was known as Zhdanov due to the Soviet authorities frequently renaming cities after communist leaders. Today, Mariupol remains a centre for industry, as well as higher education and business, a legal centre, and the economic engine of Pryazovia.
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Its parks from the 18th century are a good example for Russian architecture and landscape design from a fascinating time. The world-famous parks and palaces of Peterhof are located 29 km west of St. Petersburg and display a wonderful harmony of architecture and sculptures, gardening and engineering. The original idea of ensembles, layout and artistic concept was developed by Peter the Great.
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Saint Petersburg Travel Guide - A Russian Beauty Experience
Saint Petersburg Travel Guide - A Russian Beauty Experience
Saint Petersburg is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on earth and virtually any building in the large historic centre, threaded with canals dotted with baroque bridges, can be considered an attraction—and indeed, it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. This is a magical city, with a long list of major attractions. Its Hermitage Museum, housed in the Winter Palace of the Romanov Dynasty, is both one of the world's greatest and oldest collections of art, treasure, and antiquities, and one of its most beautiful buildings.
Founded by Peter the Great in 1703, in the territory of the Inkeri town of Nien which was a capital of Finno-Ugric province Ingermanland which was part of Novgorod Republic, and Sweden. The creation of westward-looking Peter the Great, St Petersburg was intended from its inception as a display of imperial Russia’s growing status in the world. Fine-tuned by Peter’s successors, who employed a host of European architects to add fabulous palaces and cathedrals to the city’s layout, St Petersburg grew to be the Romanovs’ showcase capital and Russia’s first great, modern city. The capital may have moved back to Moscow following the revolution, but despite all that history has thrown at it, St Petersburg still feels every bit the imperial city with its historic heart largely frozen in time.
Whether you’re cruising along the elegant canals, crossing one of the 342 bridges in the city, or just watching them being raised in summer over the mighty Neva River at night to allow ships to pass through, you’re never far from water in St Petersburg. This has earned the city unsurprising comparisons to Venice, but the similarities don’t stop there: walking around the historic centre will reveal canals lined by Italianate mansions and broken up by striking plazas adorned with baroque and neoclassical palaces. North of the city centre there are also pristine beaches fringing the Gulf of Finland.
St Petersburg is an almost unrivalled treasure trove of art and culture. You can spend days in the Hermitage, seeing everything from Egyptian mummies to Picassos, while the Russian Museum, spread over four sumptuous palaces, is perhaps the best collection of Russian art in the world. Add to this world-class ballet, opera and classical concerts at the illustrious performance halls, and a slew of big-name music festivals over the summer months, and you won’t be stuck for cultural nourishment. Contemporary art is also available at the fantastic Erarta Museum, the Street Art Museum and in the buzzing gallery scene.
Summer White Nights are legendary: the northern sun barely dips below the horizon. Revelry begins in May, with parks and gardens greening with flowering trees, and peaks in mid-June when performing arts festivals pack out concert halls and the entire city seems to party all night long. It's the busiest time to visit and the crowds can often be overwhelming. But Piter, as the city is affectionately known, is just as beautiful in early spring, golden autumn and even winter: the skies may be leaden and the ground covered in snow, but the culture still dazzles and delights.
Saint Petersburg's metro system is the second largest in Russia, after that of Moscow. The metro is a cheap and effective way to get around the city, and also a major tourist attraction due to the beautiful decorations of the stations.
A lot to see in Saint Petersburg such as :
State Hermitage Museum
Savior on the Spilled Blood
Winter Palace
Peterhof
Peter and Paul Fortress
St. Isaac's Cathedral
Nevsky avenue
Nevsky avenue
Kazan Cathedral
Russian Museum
Mariinsky Theatre
Palace Square
Peter and Paul Cathedral
Yusupov Palace
Amber Room
Vasilyevsky Island
Palace Square
Summer Garden
Cruiser Aurora
Saint Michael's Castle
Pavlovsk Palace
Bronze Horseman
The Menshikov Palace
Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns
Kunstkamera
Smolny Cathedral
Alexander Column
Faberge Museum
Stroganov Palace
Oranienbaum, Russia
Marble Palace
Saint Isaac's Square
Tsarskoye Selo
Griboyedov Canal
Senate Square
The Palace Bridge
Anichkov Bridge
Catherine Park
Summer Palace of Peter the Great
Field of Mars
Saint Petersburg Metro
Gazprom Arena
The Hermitage Theatre
Yelagin Island
Mikhailovsky Theatre
Kronstadt Naval Cathedral
St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral
SMOLNY Historical and Memorial Museum
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...
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Johann Strauss II: Gut bürgerlich, Polka française, Op.282
Johann Strauss II: Gut bürgerlich, Polka française, Op.282 (1864)
Amid the extensive press coverage of balls and other entertainments usual during a Vienna Carnival, Der Zwischenakt for 13 January 1864 carried a brief announcement which, in time, was to have major significance for the future of Viennese musical theatre: “Hofball-Musikdirektor Johann Strauss is busy with the composition of a one-act comic operetta, for which purpose a locally-renowned author has furnished him with the text”. Though never completed, this fledgling attempt at composition for the stage was Johann’s first tentative step on the path which eventually leads to the mounting of his first operetta, Indigo und die vierzig Rauber (Indigo and the Forty Thieves, 1871), and the fifteen other stage works that were to follow in its wake.
Perhaps because of his preoccupation with this operetta in early 1864, Johann’s contributions for that year’s Vienna Carnival were limited to two waltzes and four polkas. Indeed the Committee of the Citizens’ Ball had to be satisfied with the dedication of a French polka, Gut biirgerlich, instead of the waltz which they had anticipated for their grand festivity held on 26 January in the magnificent surroundings of the Imperial Redoutensaal. Yet this engaging number attracted no press comment either at its premiére or at its first public performance on 14 February in the Volksgarten, alongside 17 other novelties composed by the three Strauss brothers, at the Strauss Orchestra's ‘Carnival Revue’ which was held as a benefit concert for Josef and Eduard Strauss. On both of these occasions, Gut burgerlich was conducted by its composer. The new polka fared scarcely better before Russian audiences when Johann included it in his concert programmes at the Vauxhall Pavilion in Pavlovsk that year: the five-month season saw just 17 performances of the work, the first on 9 May 1864 (= 27 April, Russian calendar), compared with 65 performances of that year’s most popular number - the Persischer Marsch (op. 289, Volume 22 of this CD series). The polka Gut biirgerlich was subsequently issued by Johann’s Russian publisher, A. Bittner, under the amended title La sérieuse, Polka (The Serious Lady, Polka).
The principal melody of the Gut biirgerlich, Polka was to find more lasting success thirty-five years later as part of the score of the posthumous Johann Strauss pastiche operetta Wiener Blut (1899), where it may be heard in the Act 2 (No. 7) duet for the Count and Countess, sung to the words “Ich war ein echtes Wiener Blut” (I was born a true red-blooded Viennese).
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The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
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Mariinsky, um teatro que conta a história da Rússia - life
Todas as manhãs há ensaio: Com mais de 150 anos de ópera e ballet, o agora renovado teatro Mariinsky é um dos símbolos da cidade de São Petersburgo.
Não consigo imaginar São Petersburgo sem o teatro Mariinsky, tal como não imagino este teatro em nenhum outro lugar. São a mesma coisa, diz o tenor Yevgeny Akimov.
Fundada em 1703 por Pedro o Grande, São Petersburgo (chamada, no passado, Petrogrado e depois Leninegrado) é vista, por muitos, como a capital cultural da Rússia.
A tradição é mantida viva no teatro Mariinsky (antigo Kirov), com toda a constelação de estrelas da ópera e do bailado, além de todos os artistas que trabalham nos bastidores.
Tentamos fazer tudo à mão, porque isso permite-nos colocar o nosso coração nas criações, conta Ludmila Mekhonoshina, diretora do departamento de cenografia.
A cortina e os cenários estão montados no sótão e descem ao palco onde as grandes obras de Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky ou Rimsky-Korsakov tiveram as estreias mundiais: Este é o teatro onde a ópera russa nasceu e cresceu. Tal como o Scala de Milão, o Mariinsky é um símbolo quer para a cidade como para o país, diz Vasily Barkhatov, diretor de cena.
Os ateliers de guarda-roupa trabalham nos fatos para mais de dez estreias por ano. Muitos desenhadores estrangeiros vêm a São Petersburgo para ver como as novas ideias ganham vida. É o caso de Isabella Bywater: Já trabalhei em sítios onde ninguém liga à produção, poque se trabalha como numa fábrica. Sabia que nesta casa se produz muito, mas nunca me senti como numa fábrica. Há um entusiasmo pela criatividade, que é uma verdadeira alegria.
À noite, o palco está pronto para mais um espetáculo. Boris Godunov, é uma ópera de Modest Mussorgsky baseada na tragédia de Alexandre Pushkin. Está neste palco desde o século XIX, mas diz muito sobre os tempos atuais: É assim que a peça é vista no estrangeiro, quer queiramos quer não. É assim que os russos são hoje, diz o barítono Yevgeny Nikitin.
Com a idade de ouro da cultura russa a continuar a moldar a identidade nacional, esta herança mantém toda a pertinência.
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