On June 17 and 18, the premiere of the “Orleans Virgin” Opera Pi Tchaikovsky “at the National Belarus Opera and Bolshoi theater, placed by the arts director of the children's musical theater named after Natalia Sats, President of the Georgy Isahakan Music Association. The legend of Jeanne d'Arc, a woman from the heads of the movement to protect her homeland, now sounds in a special way, he said in an interview with Soyuz.
Georgy Georgievich, “Orleans Virgin” – a rare guest about opera scenes. Why?
Georgy Isaacan: “Virgin Orleans” by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky is one of the greatest Russian opera plays. And it was amazing that colleagues from Belarus chose a really rare music work for the context. You see, there are some complex opera points, as they say, heavy weight. Such a work requires the highest group of performers – both singers and orchestras. A rare theater may have a chance. And Belarus's Bolshoi Theater has a delegation capable of performing this incredible music. At the same time, production is related. The legend of Jeanne d'Arc – a woman from the heads of the movement to protect their homeland, I think it now hears in a special way for all of us. And it is an important topic for Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Therefore, in many ways, this choice is not accidental. And, it seems that for me, we have collected a very interesting group. The conductor of the performance was the main conductor of our two Artem Makarov Theater, I was the director, and the winner of the great Russian theater-artist Alexei Tregubov, whom we released a unique, unique opera of Giuseppe Verdi Verdi on the stage of the Russia theater.
Such a rhyme: Russia's Bolshoi Theater and Belarus's Bolshoi Theater, a group that created a rare product there, and now we are producing a rare product here. And it seems that for me, even in the internal topics of these two performances will have a lot of rolls, because we are trying to recreate the historical legend of Virgin Orleans, but also try to ponder what today is true to ourselves, in fact, the gods. This is like a human dialogue today with historical memories.
Today they talk a lot about the importance of historical memories.
George Isaacan: Yes. And in order for it to be preserved, great efforts must be made every day. In order for Tchaikovsky music to continue to make sounds, fun, conquer – we must complete it fully. And therefore, the names of great historical figures do not become empty letters on pages in textbooks, but still alive, we must create works that inspire them.
It seems to me that this is our common desire, moving with the Minsk Theater. I really hope that “Orleans Virgo” will succeed, and in the next few years, we will be able to bring and introduce the opera in Moscow. Because this event is not only for Bethlehum people, but also the Russian theater. In the end, there are few opportunities to see this incredible beauty of the opera in a performance on stage.
You have a strong relationship with colleagues Bethlehut.
Georgy Isaacan: I can talk a lot about Belarus with enthusiasm, tenderness and love, because there was a time, a very young director, I ordered alone there, perhaps my best performances – Bohemia Bohemia on the stage of Bolshoi theater of Belarus.
Belarut musical theater is one of the very important components of the Music Theater All -union. Excellent conductor, choreographer, artist, musician, singer, actor – music theater in Minsk always thrive. Here are a large number of names that we are still proud.
And today, these relationships are stronger than ever, because the main conductor of our Artem Makarov Theater is also the main conductor of Belarus's Bolshoi Theater. Recently, for us, he made the premiere “Romeo and Juliet”, flying here. And then I flew to work together in the play “Orleans Virgin”.
We hope that this fall, the celebration festival of the movie theaters “Watch music” will be able to bring performances from Minsk, show them the best scenes of Moscow and with Moscow audience, will be satisfied when developed and in a great form of the Opera Music Theater.
What is your connection to other colleagues in the article space?
Georgy Isaacan: I topped the Music Theater Association, including Russian cinema and the Bethlehum Academic Opera Theater, and the National Bolshoi Opera House of the National Belarus. The Association also merged Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Kyrgyzstan.
For example, we are friends of the Uzbek theater. Tashkent is generally a great theater city, with a set of two theaters. Uzbek TV series – Russian dramas, Uzbek Operetta – Russian Opera. A separate property, of course, is the academic Bolshoi theater of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi, built under the project of architect Alexei Viktorovich Shchusev. The incredible beauty of the lobby, each dedicated to one of the big cities of Uzbekistan – Samarkand's hall, Bukhara's hall … and many times the Uzbek theater has come to our “Music” festival. And last year, at the festival, there was one, perhaps, from the main cinemas of CIS – Opera Opera and Bark Astana, brought a great picture – Opera Abai to the stage of Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. We strive a lot to make our cultural space still popular, so that we can continue to contact, communicate, exchange and our connections are not interrupted.
We have learned everything in the same school, with the same teacher, we continue their business and it is very important to us that these relationships are not torn. There are a large number of ideas about common projects, creative activities. And at the “Music” festival, we can see what the theater is moving in and what our tradition continues.
By the way, recently, the alliance of Russian theater staff signed an agreement with the Belarus stage alliance and the same thing happened at the final secretary with the Armenia stage worker. For me, this is very important that at the level of creative trade unions, our countries think that it is necessary to establish close relationships, communication, and exchange of ideas that have existed in the new time.
I said above the importance of traditions, but the theater is a living creature, every day it gives us all the new ideas and development streams. And of course, we have to keep each other to understand what interesting thoughts appear and what I want to develop.