On Vernadsky Avenue, not far from the metro station "University", there is a theater in which amazing things happen even for Moscow. For example, they play the ancient operas of the 1600th and 1664 g. create. And they also hold sessions of the Academy of the ancient opera under the leadership of Maestro Andrew Lawrence-King, one of Europe's leading experts in baroque music. And there are chamber concerts of the cycle "Portraits of Composers". There is an interactive "Rehearsal of the Orchestra" for the film by Federico Fellini, the restored legendary Diaghilev ballets of the "Russian Seasons" - "Chopiniana", "Scheherazade", "Polovtsian Dances", "Golden Cockerel". In addition, you can see Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Carmen by Georges Bizet, "Love for Three Oranges" by Sergei Prokofiev and "Chanterelle".
Love. "Leos Janacek. In addition, there is an opera about the opera - "Exercises and dances Guido" by Vladimir Martynov staged by George Isahakyan. This is the Children's Musical Theater named after Natalia Sats. And, thanks to the fact that the eighth season is led by George Isahakyan, this repertoire appeared there - refined, refined, calculated for non-random in the music theater audience. But even in the row of musical rarities, which form the basis of the evening repertoire of the theater, "Exercises and dances Guido" stand apart. "Exercises and dances Guido" - an opera about how the liturgy turned into an opera, and the church cantor into an opera artist, "said the composer, a modern classic and post-modernist, who in his youth was fond of avant-garde music, Vladimir Martynov. - The initiator of this grandiose historical metamorphosis was the Benedictine monk of the 11th century Guido Aretinsky, who, like the switchman, translated the historical arrow, and the music rolled along a new path. She switched from the path of oral tradition to the tradition of writing.
Guido made six steps leading to God in six stages of the scale, climbing along which composers pass from one opera beauty to another, but these steps can no longer bring the soul to God. They lead to a rock revolution, which as a result of the path leading to God, there is only one memory ". Twenty years, separating the theatrical premiere of this work from the time of its creation, and this is 1997. , were filled in the music by talking about the fact that it can not be delivered. George Isahakyan did this. And now in the Natalia Sats Theater, "Guido's Exercises and Dances" are going on in the Painting Shop - a huge hall where the scenery is painted and almost church acoustics reigns most suitable for opera about opera, the music of which is based on the Gregorian chant.
The choir and orchestra artists surround the viewer, the sound reaches them from the right, then from behind, then from above, plunges into themselves, tearing it away from earthly cares and transferring it to the field of pure art.
It's almost a mass, but a theater mass, where there are artists and a story about how one man invented a musical mill, which we have been using for almost a thousand years. This is the story that the world is huge, and everything in it is connected: music and science, knowledge and experience, one Benedictine monk - and the whole history of culture. Spectators come to this performance through the backstage, making a journey through the back streets of the theater. The theater, which more and more extends beyond the studied scenic territories and increasingly comes to the completely unexplored lands of modern musical art.