"NANINA’S TALES" A musical performance based on the works of A.S. Pushkin and G.Kh Andersen

The Theater of Music and Poetry directed by Elena Kamburova presents the premiere of the play "NAN’S FAIRY TALES", in which "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Bogatyrs", "The Tale of the Bear" and "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish" are intertwined” A.S. Pushkin, as well as images and storylines of the fairy tale by G.Kh. Andersen "The Ugly Duckling".

From early childhood, we remember these lines: “Three girls were spinning under the window late in the evening”, “An old man lived with his old woman near the blue sea”, “The squirrel sings songs and gnaws everything on nuts, but the nuts are not simple, they have golden shells”… Pushkin’s fairy tales have entered not just into our lives, they are practically our cultural code, but for the majority they remain literature for children. Can fairy tales reveal something new to an adult?

In the play "Nanny’s Tale" the viewer finds himself in a fairy-tale looking glass, tough, but beautiful and healing in the end. This is a completely new look at Pushkin - bold and ironic at the same time! Nanny performed by n.a. will become a guide in this fabulous looking glass. The Russian Federation of Elena Kamburova is a kind of embodiment of the image of the "Eternal Nanny" - a friend, adviser and mentor, educating and teaching the laws of reality. She is either an evil old woman from The Tale of the Fisherman and a Fish, or the voice of the beautiful Swan Princess, or a bear defeated by a hunter, protecting her children. In each of these images, she teaches us to understand and accept the laws of reality, teaches us to find support in ourselves and in others - people who need support or are ready to provide it. According to the director-producer Gulnaz Balpeisova: “Every person is a magician,

For Gulnaz Balpeisova, this is already the third production at the Theater of Music and Poetry (The Road, 24 Hours from the Life of a Woman) and a new opportunity to speak in the bright, figurative language of the musical and poetic theater about the challenges of the modern world - and about the human nature that is unchanged at all times..

The musical director and composer of the production, Oleg Sinkin, combined M.P. Mussorgsky, fragments of opera works by N.A. Rimsky-Korsakov and his own compositions arranged for four voices and a string quartet (Daria Barskova / Yulia Pliskovskaya / Tatyana Maslennikova - violin, Elena Slobodchikova - cello, Nikolai Lyanny - viola).

The role of the Nanny is played by n.a. RF Elena Antonovna Kamburova. The other actors of the theater are Lada Maris, Anna Komova, Evgenia Kurova, Elena Veremeenko, Alena Parfenova, Roman Kalkaev, Evgeny Astafurov, Evgeny Valts, Alexander Koltsov, Danil Mozhaev and Artur Sakharov.

Stage adaptation of texts by A.S. Pushkin and staging - Gulnaz Balpeisova
Musical director, composer, arranger - Oleg Sinkin Stage designer
- Irina Pinova Plastic
director - Dorji Galsanov