Vakhtangians traditionally completed the theater season with a holiday on Old Arbat

MOSCOW. Over the past six years, the closing ceremony of the season at the Vakhtangov Theater has turned into a grand celebration. It can be visited not only by spectators who are fortunate enough to purchase tickets for a performance ending the theater year. To plunge into the festive atmosphere, it is enough to visit the Old Arbat. An impromptu scene appears that evening at the entrance to the famous theater.

Young Vakhtangov show on it excerpts from the best performances, read poetry. On the evening of July 3rd, the full house was not only in the theater hall, where the magnificent Eugene Onegin, staged by Rimas Tuminas, was shown.

Immediately after the stream of spectators rushing to Eugene Onegin ended, the space of Arbat was filled with people who wanted to see a festive concert performed by the artists of their favorite theater. The street part of the holiday was started at 21:30.

The incendiary Spanish motifs of “The Marriage of Figaro,” staged last season by Vladimir Mirzoyev, sounded. Then, the young artists read poems by Yevgeny Simonov, a former theater artistic director. Vakhtangov celebrated his ninetieth anniversary last season.

Another important date was not forgotten - on the stage, accompanied by students, appeared Evgeny Knyazev, the rector of the Shchukinsky school, celebrating its 100th anniversary. When the audience saw the idol of several generations of Vasily Lanovoy, then a storm of applause did not allow the artist to immediately begin his performance.

Lanovoy read Pushkin’s poems, and the song performed by the People’s Artist from the movie “Officers” ended with enthusiastic applause from the audience. After the end of "Eugene Onegin", to the sound of deafening applause, its participants took to the street stage. Headed by artists Rimas Tuminas.

A new, anniversary season will begin on September 14th.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru