The program of the Volkov Theater Festival opened with the performance of the Maly Theater "Woe from Wit" Automatic translate

YAROSLAVL. The Volkovsky Theater hosts guests for the seventeenth time - participants in an international theater festival. Fourteen theatrical groups arrived in Yaroslavl, including not only Russian theaters. A Russian theater bearing the name of Chekhov arrived from Riga, and a theater named after Sh. Griboedova. In just two weeks allotted for festival events, viewers will see 16 performances.

The festival opened on September 12 with a ceremony during which honorary awards from the Government of the Russian Federation - Prizes named after them were presented. Fedor Volkov. This year’s Prize Laureates are - Mari Opera House. Salaev, Theater. Gorky from Rostov. The prestigious prize was awarded to Valentina Meshchangina, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

The award ceremony, which took place on a stage crowded with spectators and guests of the Volkovsky Theater, was entrusted to Dmitry Mironov, and. about. the governor of the region. He wished the audience to enjoy the joy of communicating with art, and the artists for inspiration.

The opening of the theater program of the Volkov Festival was the performance of Natalia Terentyeva, People’s Artist of Russia, who recently celebrated her ninetieth birthday. The actress called the opening day of the festival special, because the first is the great Maly Theater, famous for its traditions, but still forever young and modern.

Artists of the Maly Theater brought to Yaroslavl “Woe from Wit” - a wonderful comedy directed by Sergei Zhenovach. The director carefully reacted to the text of the play, with which each of the audience was familiar from school. Not one of the well-known productions of the famous play has so many genuine feelings and warmth as in the performance of the Maly Theater. In the role of Famusov, Yuri Solomin appeared on the scene.

Ludmila Trautmane © Gallerix.ru