The Vakhtangov theater was unusually closed season.

Alexei Guskov

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The closure of the 97th season of the Vakhtangov Theatre, the audience could get without a ticket! The fact that for nine consecutive years, the theatre on the last day of the theater season concert for everyone on the Arbat.

For the first time the actors came on the stage, which was erected in front of the theater, in 2009. And since then
any weather front the audience gathered to say goodbye to a favorite
up to the meeting in September.

Marina yesipenko, Vasily Lanovoy, Lyudmila Maksakova and Evgeny Knyazev

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Spectators and fans are the artists of different
generations, with some of the stars coming to the shows immediately after the performance in the theater (this evening at the Vakhtangov gave “King Oedipus” directed by Rimas Tuminas).

Participants of the festival were Vasily Lanovoy,
Evgeny Knyazev, Yulia Rutberg, Aleksei Guskov, Olga Tomycine Maria Volkova, Natalia Vinokurova, Denis Samoylov, Yury Sokurov, Pauline
Chernyshova, Polina Kuzminskaya, Asya Dome, Yuri Polyak, Aleksey Petrov, Vasily
Tsyganov, and artists of the National theatre of Greece and the orchestra of the Vakhtangov
theatre.

Yulia Rutberg

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Alexander Oleshko

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Led holiday concert Marina Esipenko and Kirill Rubtsov. In the program of theatrical evenings outdoors was
poetry and folk songs, jazz and musical numbers from plays
theatre.

Among the participants were Alexander Oleshko, who
the end of the 97 season came in the state theatre (graduate of the school named Shchukin, Oleshko in 2004 was invited to the Vakhtangov Theatre in the play “Mademoiselle nitouche” and later in the play “Take your umbrella, Madame Gautier!” (both productions were created
his teacher, directed by Vladimir Ivanov). Alexander is also a regular party Nights in the new stage of the Vakhtangov theatre
The ART CAFE, the programs prepared especially for them
an audience of children, including collaborative work with the theatre’s orchestra — tale “the Scarlet flower”, going on Simonovsky
stage.

Evgeny Knyazev and Viktor Dobronravov

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Tomycine Olga and Andrey Maksimov

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New, 98th
theatrical season, the Vakhtangov Theatre will open September 15 with the premiere of
the play “the False note” on the play by Didier Caron directed by Rimas Tuminas — in this busy Alexei Guskov Gennady Khazanov.

By the way, Moscow
The Vakhtangov theatre and Omsk Academic drama theatre links
historically long-standing friendship. 22 October 1941 at the Vakhtangov theatre
was evacuated from Moscow to Omsk, where he worked on the stage of drama Theatre.
Rehearse often had nights in the small theater at the same time worked
two companies alternating performances on the stage.

Alexei Guskov Gennady Khazanov

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Years later, the theatres introduced the tradition
exchange tours. In October 2018 in Moscow
coming Omsk drama: on the stage of the Vakhtangov theater will be presented ten
performances. Of Omsk and the theatre also binds the name of people’s artist of the USSR Mikhail
Ulyanov, who was born in the village Bergamak muromtsevsky district of Omsk region.

And leaving the theater in Omsk, where will take place the VI-th international
theatrical festival “Academy”. It will take part
theater groups from Russia, Sweden, Israel, Serbia, Armenia and Moldova. Theatre
Vakhtangov in the framework of the project “Big tour” Federal
centre for support of tour activities, established by the Ministry of culture
Russian Federation, Omsk will present five performances: “Eugene
Onegin”, “Mademoiselle nitouche”, “Medea”, “Our class” and “Jealous
to myself.”

Photo: Sergei Ivanov