From April 4 to 8, three baroque performances from the theater's repertoire will be played, which today is the only venue in Moscow where you can not only hear old operas, but also see them in a full stage, not concert, incarnation - and not in the format of a festival one-off show, but as repertoire performances. "Surprisingly, the first samples of the opera as a genre were its greatest peaks, which both four hundred years ago and today are admired," said Georgy Isahakyan, one of the main propagandists of the ancient opera in the modern theater.

- In early music with a man happens this: you suddenly for a moment gain a feeling of absolute harmony and a touch to something that lies outside of you. Why, I think, actually there is music, theater, painting. What in modern music requires some kind of hellish tension (you need to make an incredible effort to hear the absolute in modern music), in baroque with you happens as it were ". "In the Baroque, there is much that resonates with the religious feeling. Baroque choruses (almost chorals), arias lamente - it all gives a sense of being on the edge: like you are engaged in a secular thing, but it obviously has a vertical, some upward-directed rod. I suspect that this is what really attracts people. The feeling that inside this music you suddenly find peace. I do not entertain myself with the illusion that everyone comes for this, but almost all this (at least for a moment) is gained - the feeling that everyone is a part of world harmony. When this music flows through you, this feeling permeates you. You feel yourself as part of the universe, part of something great, beautiful and perfect. And when the music ends, you still have the bitterness of the expelled from paradise, "added Isahakian. On Wednesday and Thursday, on April 4 and 5, the first Spanish opera composed by composer Juan Hidalgo de Polanco on the libretto of Pedro Calderon himself will perform on the Great Stage - "Love Kills". This performance about love and revenge became an absolute hit in today's Moscow and for the second season goes on with a sold-out. Spectators are located directly on the stage - under the open grate-skies, in which, like in the old theater, nymphs fly over their heads. The musical director and conductor of the production is maestro Andrew Lawrence-King, who assembled at the Natalia Sats Theater a unique ensemble of baroque instruments so that the audience could hear how old music really sounded. On Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, on the Small Stage, the Italian opera of the year 1600 will be shown - "The Game of the Soul and the Body" by Emilio de Cavalieri. "The first opera in the history of mankind, the opera, which was written at the beginning of the seventeenth century as a man's conversation with neither more nor less than God, seemed to us important to do as a chamber, intimate conversation when - eyes in the eye with the artist, when you can reach by when you can reach it is impossible to hide lies. Because this theme, which is absolutely "outdated" after 400 years - the theme of man's spiritual path, can only be said: in close proximity to one another, that is, in the space of the Small Scene, "said George Isaakian. The performance was the first joint work of the theater and Andrew Lawrence-King, music director and conductor of the production.

"The Game of the Soul and the Body" was awarded a special prize by the jury of the National Theater Award "Golden Mask". On Sunday, April 8, on the Small Stage, you will be able to see the opera of Georg Friedrich Handel "Alcina, or the Magic Island". All the roles in it are performed by women, and behind the conductor's console reigns Alevtina Ioffe - one of the finest operas of baroque. In the middle of the ocean is hidden the island of the sorceress Altsina. Any traveler who comes here, she turns into stones, trees, animals and flowers. And only Knight Ruggero manages to avoid this fate. The great sorceress falls in love with him. The abandoned bride Ruggero Bradamante rushes to his search. A series of love afflictions, jealousy, resentment, oaths and forgiveness - whimsical turns of the plot unfold on the stage, sound delightful,.