Bolshoi Theater broadcast live on Mezzo TV channel. Rendezvous with the Abyss Channel about classical music and jazz in high definition format

Mezzo is the number one TV channel in Europe dedicated to classical music, opera, jazz and ballet. Mezzo offers viewers exclusive television programs about both emerging talented artists and recognized stars of our time, such as Valery Gergiev, Lang Lang, Nathalie Dessay, Miles Davis, Bobby McFerrin, Maurice Bejart.

Every month, Mezzo TV viewers have a unique opportunity to watch two productions from the world's best theaters live. Mezzo collaborates with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, La Scala in Milan, Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris National Opera, the House of Festivals in Baden-Baden and many other famous the whole world is a concert venue.

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Channel about classical music and jazz in high definition format

The content of the Mezzo live HD TV channel is represented by programs that are created exclusively in high definition format. Having started broadcasting in April 2010, the channel rebroadcasts the best classical music concerts, operas, ballets and jazz performances from around the world, and only in high definition. Thanks to this technology, Mezzo live HD viewers have the opportunity to virtually find themselves in the most famous concert halls on the planet.

MEZZO Live HD is the only Full Native HD TV channel that annually broadcasts more than 20 live concerts.

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November 13, 2018, Moscow. The Mezzo TV channel is expanding the boundaries of broadcasting: now lovers of classical music, opera and ballet will be able to enjoy live broadcasts not only at home.

On November 15, from 19:00 to 22:30, visitors to the VEGAS Kuntsevo shopping and entertainment complex will see a live broadcast from the Bolshoi Theater - the opera “The Tsar’s Bride” (conducted by the Bolshoi Theater music director Tugan Sokhiev). The broadcast will take place on the ground floor of the shopping center next to the skating rink.

The project, unique for the TV channel and shopping and entertainment complex, will be supported by operator Tricolor.

“For Tricolor, as the leader of the Russian Pay TV market, it is important to provide high-quality and varied content. We are pleased that thanks to our long-standing cooperation with Mezzo, more than 30 million of our viewers can join the best works of classical ballet, opera and musical art. Live broadcasts from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters make vibrant theatrical performances available to a huge number of people in different parts of Russia. We are happy to help our partners carry out the first show of the famous opera “The Tsar’s Bride” by Rimsky-Korsakov in an unusual place for classical art - the VEGAS shopping and entertainment complex in Moscow. We are confident that this bright event will be remembered by the audience,” comments Pavel Steshin, Tricolor Public Relations Director.

The opera consists of four acts, transporting the audience to the Alexandrovskaya Sloboda of 1572. Viewers will be able to plunge into the real cycle of love intricacies of the times of Ivan the Terrible.

You can find out more about the Mezzo and Mezzo Live HD TV channels on the website http://www.mezzo.tv/en/ru

You can connect to TV channels from cable and satellite operators in your city.

About Mezzo and Mezzo Live HD

Mezzo is a TV channel dedicated to classical music, opera, jazz and ballet. Mezzo collaborates with the largest theaters around the world, such as the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, La Scala in Milan, Covent Garden in London, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Paris National Opera and many other famous the whole world is a concert venue.

Mezzo Live HD began broadcasting in April 2010, the channel rebroadcasts the best classical music concerts, operas, ballets and jazz performances from around the world in HD format. Thanks to this technology, Mezzo Live HD viewers have the opportunity to virtually find themselves in the most famous concert halls on the planet. MEZZO Live HD is a Full Native HD TV channel that annually broadcasts more than 25 live concerts.

For questions regarding the distribution of TV channels, please contact the partner of Lagardere Active TV in Russia – Universal Distribution.

About VEGAS shopping center Kuntsevo

The third project of the Crocus Group VEGAS themed shopping mall network, which was opened in the fall of 2017. The design of the complex is made in Italian style, and a picturesque city with cozy streets and flowery balconies is integrated into its space. The central atrium became a copy of the greatest architectural monument - the ancient Roman Colosseum. In addition to shopping, in the new VEGAS you can visit a cinema, a family recreation park, an ice skating rink, the Crocus Fitness sports complex and the YOUR HOUSE hypermarket. Leading world and Russian brands are represented here, and a large food court area is occupied by famous restaurants.

About Tricolor

Tricolor is a multi-platform operator of the digital environment, providing a range of digital services including television viewing. Tricolor creates a unified information space of entertainment and services for the whole family, accessible from any device, anywhere and regardless of time. Broadcasts throughout Russia.

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The TV camera is dangerous. A mediocre performance will die under her gaze. If the performance is talented (and in the case of “The Queen of Spades” staged by Alexey Stepanyuk and with the musical direction of Valery Gergiev, he is not just talented, we are dealing with an extraordinary phenomenon of Russian culture), then the television camera will highlight its cultural codes and subtexts a hundredfold .

“You FEAR WITH AFTERNESS, YOU INSULT WITH PRAYER...”

“I cannot take upon myself all their destinies, these are not troubles, but destinies.

Everyone has their own destiny. There is Dostoevsky in this “Queen of Spades”, am I right?

Eat. St. Petersburg is the darkest and stuffiest city, the city of the Queen of Spades. A gambling house is hell. The statues at the ball come to life and dance, they are without muscles, they are tax collectors. There are many ghosts there, the ghost of the Countess appears on the bed. The running of the hangers is like the running of rats around the house. Gergiev immediately understood everything, and the orchestra played with a dark, gloomy sound, slow tempos, huge pauses.

Does Herman love Lisa?

No, he would like to love her, but no. She turned to him with a grin of death - the Countess. There is no love, there is a destroying passion, three people were burned by their gaze, they are already marked by death. Tormenting desire and the impossibility of love, this happens in Tchaikovsky. This is the story of the Nutcracker and Masha, in the finale of the ballet there is simply a collapse of tragedy, there is no happy ending.

But in “The Queen of Spades” there is Yeletsky’s love...

This is more than love. This is knightly service. He's like an otherworldly knight. And Lisa is a masochist; she experiences inexplicable pleasure in death.

She is choking with jealousy.

From destructive jealousy, when she realizes that Herman did not need her, but the Countess.

“The Queen of Spades” at “Mezzo” is, in fact, a new performance. Where the beauty of dying, the poetry of destruction are elevated to cult. The cameraman who filmed the production was able to understand what was laid down by the director in the subtexts, what was lived by the conductor in this array of beautiful and chilling music.

Close-ups, when it doesn’t occur to you that this is an actor - these faces seem to have stepped out of the canvases of Goya, already possessed by madness. And you, too, willingly or unwillingly, are plunging into this abyss. From the first notes, from the first frames. What previously may have been out of focus due to perception from the auditorium, is now focused and has acquired paramount importance.

This boy, this slightly arrogant and like a transparent Petersburg youth, invented by the director - he is so strange, mysterious, almost ethereal. He is like a helmsman in Charon’s boat, a guide to another world, to those same Elysian Fields, Elysium, where the righteous, after leaving for another world, spend their days without sadness and worries. Although Lisa, Herman and the Countess are far from righteous...

Boy ( Egor Maksimov) begins the performance - with some kind of half-smile, with fluttering eyelashes. And, as always happens in the performances of Alexei Stepanyuk, the further development of the story seems to emerge from the fog. Through the glare, through the golden moving columns, through the mourning tulle, Herman sometimes looks out through it... Fate looks out.

Yes, no love. There is her desire - to the point of insanity, to the point of convulsion. In the veins of Herman ( Maxim Aksenov) and Lisa ( Irina Churilova) - “black blood”, which “not even dates, not even love” will not humble. She looks at him without even looking. “You look at me without even looking,” you can’t say more precisely. At the Countess's ( Maria Maksakova) there was once “black blood” that Saint Germain felt, but alas, it’s all in the past now. However, she also guesses Herman through her skin - the most reliable “sense organ”.

It seems that the Countess does not even live in memories, she is simply in another dimension. Her first impression of Herman is a premonition of the end, an instantly activated intuition. She leaves this dimension of hers for a couple of minutes when Herman comes to her, but this tension of strength becomes fatal for her.

Stepanyuk builds the performance in such a way that you experience sensations equal to those when you fly on a roller coaster - from jubilation (yes, there is that too) to breathtaking horror. There is horror when, together with the characters, you look into the abyss... It seems that you cannot hide from Herman’s gaze. And the word “scary” does not leave my mind.

But there is a paradox: the performance was made, let’s borrow the expression of the Orthodox philosopher Alexander Elchaninov, “with the grace of the heart.” Because it’s a pity for the heroes, they require our audience compassion. Close-ups of Herman, his despair in his eyes, the doom of both him and Lisa are a test of mercy for the public.

“I SHALL NOW SAY YOUR NAME...”

“Gergiev plunged the orchestra into the abyss. And at the same time he did not change his good taste.

The word “scary” is often repeated in opera. Why?

Terrible-passion-suffering - these words have the same root.

- “Joy and suffering are one?”

Yes. The story of the Countess is the story of a turn of the century. She lived in the time of knights, and now the Stingy Knight has entered the arena. He craves power over the world.

- “There are piles of gold there, and they belong to me, to me alone”?

(From a conversation with Alexey Stepanyuk.)

Herman is a tyrant, and, like any tyrant, he is weak, much weaker than the Countess, even Yeletsky. Yeletsky in the play ( Vladislav Sulimsky) is bright and pure, and truly a knight who inscribed the name of a beautiful lady on his shield. Herman is afraid of lack of freedom, hence his “I don’t know her name, and I don’t want to find out.” For him, any connection is a fetter in his legs, preventing him from achieving his goal. The goal is power over the world, the path to this is money. The Napoleon complex literally eats him up. It is no coincidence that Pushkin’s Hermann is “a man with the profile of Napoleon.” This difference also passed on to Herman in the opera.

And for sure - there is no love, there is a city with its evil grin, with a desire for suicide - well, how else could it have such a love for floods? The city and the people in it, who became part of it, accepted its rules of the game. With the madness of white nights, with the poisonous aroma of night violets, with the enchanted lunar circle of damp March.

All this is not directly in the play and it is all there. Because almost all of Alexey Stepanyuk’s performances are icebergs, slightly above the water, but the whole colossus of his philosophical thought is hidden, because “a thought expressed is a lie.” You can’t pronounce the name, Herman was right, let them guess for themselves.

A true artist is always in reticence, in secrecy, in unwillingness to reveal himself to the first person he meets. Which of us, right away, can say that we understood Tchaikovsky, Blok, Dostoevsky? If we do understand, it is after going through a painful path of knowledge, but it is all the more valuable that you finally understand and make it your own. So it is in “The Queen of Spades”.

The recording of the performance by the French TV channel Mezzo, made with great delicacy and respect for the director and conductor, magically highlighted many hidden subtexts. From the mystery of the Russian soul, which is drawn by the abyss and, fearing it, a person with cheerful despair goes on a date with it. Before understanding this terrible, destructive craving for power over the world. What the game of Maxim Aksenov showed was simply a rupture of the aorta.

The ending of the play is quiet and unexpected. The anguish that directors, as a rule, love in the last bars of this opera has left him. No, Stepanyuk’s German is even a little tired. He sits on the proscenium, and the boy, this strange boy, quietly closes his eyes.

In general, everything is logical. A small dwarf quietly crawled out and stopped the clock.

Photo: Valentin Baranovsky, Natasha Razina

Mezzo TV channel announced the start of cooperation with the Bolshoi Theater to conduct live broadcasts of theater productions. The first broadcast is scheduled for November 12 When will you be able to see it live? Shostakovich's opera "Katerina Izmailova" conducted by the world famous Russian conductor Tugan Sokhiev.

The premiere of the opera “Katerina Izmailova” took place in February 2016. The plot of the opera is familiar to the audience - the libretto was written by Shostakovich based on Leskov’s essay “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk”. This opera by Shostakovich has been staged at the Bolshoi Theater three times since 1935. And now, thanks to cooperation with the Mezzo TV channel, connoisseurs around the world will be able to see the production simultaneously.

The goal of the Mezzo TV channel is to make music accessible to a wide audience. The language of music is understandable to everyone, which is why Mezzo is broadcast in more than 57 countries from Australia to Canada. More than 28 million families are subscribers of the Mezzo TV channel.

With the help of Mezzo, audiences are introduced to classical music, jazz and ballet. On the TV channel you can see current stage stars, legends of the past, new talents, solo concerts, opera, symphonic and church music, jazz, ethnic music, and dance. Every month Mezzo focuses on three artists - their concerts, performances, and broadcasts.

Every year Mezzo produces 150 outstanding performances and 25 live broadcasts in theaters around the world. From the current repertoire of the Bolshoi Mezzo Theater the following have already been filmed: the operas “The Queen of Spades”, “Wozzeck”, “Eugene Onegin”, “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, “Prince Igor” and the ballets “Sleeping Beauty”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “The Nutcracker” , “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, “Swan Lake”, Swan Lake”, “Raymonda”, “Flames of Paris”.

Upcoming broadcasts on Mezzo live HD

January 12, House of French Radio
Rachmaninov, Dvorak: Denis Matsuev and the National Orchestra of France

January 17, Montreal Symphony House
Haydn, Reich: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano

Music lovers are encouraged to vote online for one of the twelve brilliant performances broadcast by the channel in 2012. Each represents a major musical theater with its own traditions, “handwriting” and priorities in the art of opera. It was announced that the world-famous tenor Roberto Alagna is the patron of the initiative. Voting will last until December 6 inclusive. So that those wishing to take part in the vote can refresh their memory, they are invited to watch a series of four-minute programs from which they can learn a lot - the plot, information about the directors and production, characters, and also hear the most famous arias. The results will be summed up on December 7. Participants living in France are promised bonuses: a lucky draw will determine the lucky winner who will fly on the Paris-Vienna route in order to spend a spring weekend in the Austrian capital, while visiting the Vienna Opera on the evening when Roberto Alagna will sing Werther there (“Werther” J . Massenet), another category of lucky people is given CDs and DVDs, another category is given a three-month subscription to the weekly magazine “Cable and Satellite Television”.

The Bolshoi Theater is represented by opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila” by M. Glinka- the first production performed on the historical stage after its opening.
Let us remind you that the premiere took place on November 2, 2011, the stage director and set designer is Dmitry Chernyakov, the musical director of the production is Vladimir Yurovsky.
The performance was recorded at the Bolshoi Theater at performances held on November 5 and 8, 2011, when the premiere cast performed: Lyudmila - Albina Shagimuratova, Ruslan - Mikhail Petrenko.
The recording was first broadcast by Mezzo and MezzoLiveHD on December 20, 2011. Mezzo then repeated the broadcast on January 4th and 22nd and February 7th.

Our rivals were:

"Arabella" by R. Strauss
Vienna State Opera
(co-production with the Hamburg State Opera)
Conductor - Franz Welser-Möst
Stage director - Sven-Erik Bechtolf
In the title role - Emily Magee

"Boris Godunov" by M. Mussorgsky
Mariinskii Opera House
(joint production of the Mariinsky Theater with the Baden-Baden Festspielhaus)
Conductor - Valery Gergiev
Stage Director - Graham Vick
In the title role - Evgeniy Nikitin

"Carmen" by J. Bizet
National Opera of Lyon(France)
Conductor - Stefano Montanari
Stage director - Olivier Pi
In the title role - Jose Maria Lo Monaco

“David and Jonathan” M.-A. Charpentier
Festival in Aix-en-Provence (France)
(Co-production with Edinburgh Festival,
Paris Opera-Comique" and Madrid Teatro Real)
Conductor - William Christie
Stage director - Andreas Homoki
Orchestra "Flourishing Arts"/Les Arts Florissants
David - Pascal Charboneau
Jonathan - Ana Quintans

“Hippolyte and Arisia” J.-F. Ramo
Paris National Opera
(performance rented from the Toulouse Theater Capitol)
Conductor - Emmanuel Aim
Stage director - Ivan Alexander
Orchestra Le Concert d'Astree
Phaedra - Sarah Connolly
Arisia - Anne-Catherine Gillet
Ippolit - Topi Lehtipuu

"Iolanta" by P. Tchaikovsky
Royal Theater, Madrid/ Teatro Real de Madrid
(joint production with the Bolshoi Theater)
Conductor - Teodor Currentzis
Stage Director: Peter Sellars
In the title role - Ekaterina Shcherbachenko (Bolshoi Theater)

“The Marriage of Figaro” by V.A. Mozart
Glyndebourne Festival (UK)
(co-production with the Houston Grand Opera,
New York Metropolitan Opera)
Conductor - Robin Ticciati
Stage Director - Michael Grandage
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
In the title role - Vito Priante

"The Trojans" by G. Berlioz
Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London)
(co-production with the Vienna State Opera,
Teatro alla Scala, San Francisco Opera)
Conductor - Antonio Pappano
Stage Director: David McVicar
Aeneas - Brian Himel
Dido - Eva-Maria Westbroek

"Nixon in China" by J. Adams
Chatelet Theater, Paris
Conductor - Alexander Bridger
Stage Director - Chen Shi-Zheng
Chamber Orchestra of Paris/Ensemble Orchestral de Paris
In the title role - Franco Pomponi

"Orlando" G.F. Handel
Theater de la Monnaie, Brussels
(joint production with the Flanders Music Festival,
Clara Festival, a festival in the center of Bozar; Brussels)
Conductor - Rene Jacobs
Stage director - Pierre Audi
Baroque Orchestra B'Rock/Baroque Orchestra B'Rock
In the title role - Bejun Meta

"Siegfried" by R. Wagner
La Scala theater, Milan
"co-production with the Berlin State Opera
and Antwerp theater Toneelhuis/Belgium)
Conductor - Daniel Barenboim
Stage director - Guy Cassier
Leading by Lance Ryan