25.02.2011
The Days of Perm Culture Started at the Mikhailovsky Theatre
On 9 November 2010 the Days of Perm in St Petersburg officially started at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. The project includes a series of music, theatre and artistic events.
The theatre programme of the ‘Perm time’ was opened by the production of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, an opera by Alexander Tchaikovsky based on the same name short story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Right before the performance a press briefing was held in the foyer of the dress circle of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Anton Gubankov, the head of the committee for culture of St Petersburg, Boris Milgram, the Minister for Culture of Perm region, Marat Gelman, the director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, and Anastasia Kuryokhina, the artistic director of the Centre of Contemporary Arts named after Sergey Kuryokhin took the floor. Anton Gubankov accentuated that the cultural alliance of St Petersburg and Perm is a completely new, open for other cities form of regional cooperation on a cultural basis, the purpose of which is not only cultural exchange but also introduction of innovations, creative businesses, and new forms of developing the city space. Boris Milgram reassured the public that the natives of Perm are going to visit the city much more often, and the alliance of the two cities is set to become the basis of the brand new process in cultural life of Russia.
[слайдшоу 570 340 Дни культуры Перми]
The next day the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre presented the world premiere of Anton Rubinstein’s opera Christ staged Georgy Isaakian. On 12 November at the Mikhailovsky Theatre the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Company will show two ballets — Casting Off and Waltzes for theDim-witted.
The theatre programme of the ‘Perm time’ was opened by the production of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, an opera by Alexander Tchaikovsky based on the same name short story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Right before the performance a press briefing was held in the foyer of the dress circle of the Mikhailovsky Theatre. Anton Gubankov, the head of the committee for culture of St Petersburg, Boris Milgram, the Minister for Culture of Perm region, Marat Gelman, the director of the Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, and Anastasia Kuryokhina, the artistic director of the Centre of Contemporary Arts named after Sergey Kuryokhin took the floor. Anton Gubankov accentuated that the cultural alliance of St Petersburg and Perm is a completely new, open for other cities form of regional cooperation on a cultural basis, the purpose of which is not only cultural exchange but also introduction of innovations, creative businesses, and new forms of developing the city space. Boris Milgram reassured the public that the natives of Perm are going to visit the city much more often, and the alliance of the two cities is set to become the basis of the brand new process in cultural life of Russia.
[слайдшоу 570 340 Дни культуры Перми]
The next day the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre presented the world premiere of Anton Rubinstein’s opera Christ staged Georgy Isaakian. On 12 November at the Mikhailovsky Theatre the Evgeny Panfilov Ballet Company will show two ballets — Casting Off and Waltzes for the
