Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovsky met at the rock Opera

An exclusive report from the premiere of the play “Crime and punishment”.

Andrey Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov

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That Andrei Konchalovsky lives and works not
the rules, it would be time already and to get used to. So eminent guests was not surprised
when I received the invitation to the Moscow musical theatre for the VIP show of the rock Opera “Crime
and punishment” based on a novel by Dostoyevsky is not a day of the first show, which sold tickets for spectators (even in the middle of March), but only on the 13th
account performance. Konchalovsky — the perfectionist, the Director wanted close
people saw the production, in which everything is fulfilled to trifles. And for this
it took time and endless hard work.

Tatiana Mikhalkova

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Artem Mikhalkov with a sweetheart Daria

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However, this time Andrew, as well as the author of music,
a longtime friend of the family Mikhalkov — the legendary composer Eduard Artemiev
worried, no less than on the day of the first performance. Perhaps this is
was a rare occasion when the Director appeared in the hall before third
call through to the artists on stage. Konchalovsky made sure that his wife
Yulia Vysotskaya, the brother of Nikita Mikhalkov and his family occupied a comfortable
.

Efim Shifrin in the role of a Porphyria

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Nadezhda Mikhalkova

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Representation Mikhalkov at the big premiere of “Crime
and punishment” was almost the maximum in Musical Theatre came Nikita Sergeevich
with his wife Tatyana E., their daughter Nadia, and son Artem with his lover
Daria. The members of the famous family came separately, with a small time difference. First there was Hope that
modestly passed by the VIP clothes and left the clothes in the sector for ordinary viewers,
having stood in front of this small place.

Andrey Konchalovsky with the creators of the show

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Composer Eduard Artemyev, who is friends with Nikita
Mikhalkov since childhood, met his family members right at the entrance. It is curious that
with the eldest of the brothers — with Andrey Sergeevich — the Maestro met and became friends
later than younger. “On Konchalovsky was rumored that he was so high.
Andron dreamed of being a pianist. And then, when he left the Conservatory, said,
that Andron is gone due to the fact that he did not want to become second. Sugars and
Ashkenazy, who studied at the same time as us, were objectively pianists better than him.
To the third year Andron still been with them tagals, but then I realized that it is useless…”

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