Russian theater from Riga presented St. Petersburg audience "Khanum" directed by Alla Sigalova

ST. PETERSBURG. The musical comedy theater on January 30 provided its stage for the performance of the play “Hanuma”, staged at the Riga Theater named after M. Chekhov director and choreographer Alla Sigalova. The next day, January 31st, the Riga guests showed Khanum to the audience again.

Theater named after M. Chekhov two years ago celebrated its 130th anniversary. Outside of Russia, he is one of the oldest Russian-language theaters. Since 2010, Igor Konyaev, a St. Petersburg director, has been working as his artistic director. Then at the theater the reconstruction of the premises was completed. Today, the Russian theater, located in the Old Riga district, has comfortable facilities that correspond to the world level.

The day before the performance of the “Hanuma” performance was presented to Petersburg audiences, its creators, led by the director of the Riga Theater Eduard Tsekhovalom, met with media representatives. Eduard Tsekhoval said that for the theater staff the Khanuma show in St. Petersburg, where Georgy Tovstonogov created his famous performance, is an important event and a great responsibility. Artists hope to give the audience pleasure.

The words of Eduard Tsekhov were supplemented by Alla Sigalova, director of "Khanuma". She said that this performance was staged on many stages of the country, however, Tovstonogov’s work in the BDT went down in the history of the theater world. At the same time, Sigalova emphasized that her performance was staged in a completely different way.

When asked by reporters why she agreed to the production of "Khanuma", Sigalova spoke about her long-term cooperation with the theater team. M. Chekhov. At the same time, the director added that she had recently worked at the Latvian Opera on Shakespeare’s Othello. After a rather tragic story, I wanted a holiday. "Hanuma" became such a holiday.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru