"Helikon-Opera" continues to please regulars. May was marked by the premiere of the ballet with the singing of "The Seven Deadly Sins" by Kurt Weil.

On a small podium in the Belokolonnom Hall of Princess Shakhovskaya, the audience was presented with a unique ballet with singing. On stage for an hour (in the original version - for 35 minutes) scenes are unfolding from the life of the main character Anna. She appears before the audience in two ways - practical, prudent and sensitive, vulnerable. The first is opened to spectators in singing, the second - in dance.

Photo: Anna Molyanonova In the first part, the mezzo-soprano prevails, here the director Ilya Ilyin, for whom this performance was a diploma, placed seven - by analogy with the number of sins - zargs, or songs, to whom the nicer, Berthold Brecht. Next followed by a capella for four - members of Anna's family who sent her to work.

Photo: Irina Shymchak The action takes place in the USA in the midst of the Great Depression. The heroine is a poor girl Anna from Louisiana goes on a journey around the country to find her luck, earn enough money and build a small house by the river for her family. The city behind the city leaves Anna behind, in each of them she encounters mortal sins: laziness, pride, gluttony, anger, greed, envy, adultery.

Photo: Anna Molyanonova The second part is known through dance. Each ballet miniature tells viewers about Anna, step by step bringing her to the house on the shore of the Mississippi. Anna overcomes mortal sins. However, committing another sin, giving up his love and his "I". The path that Anna passes, step by step brings her closer to the coveted house.

And now, it would seem, when the goal is reached, the house turns into a coffin. Life has passed ... Photo: Irina Shymchak Ballet with singing is a rather rare genre. And to see the production is necessary. "The Seven Deadly Sins" by the great composer Kurt Weill wrote in 1933. , At the same time she was staged in the theater on the Champs Elysees in Paris. In Russia, it is extremely rare, the most famous opera ballet was staged in 1981. On the stage of Chamber Music Theater. Now the Muscovites have a chance to see it again.