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Alexander Ovechkin planted a tree and thought about his son. The Cherry Forest will open with metaphysical insights The Cherry Forest Festival program

« cherry forest» , founded in 2001 by the company Bosco di Ciliegi with the support of the Government of Moscow, has long been no longer a chamber event for the elite, but a full-fledged project that brings together diverse different types arts in order to acquaint the viewer with the cult names of the XX century. This year, the premiere of the play will be presented within the framework of the festival. "Circus"- stage version of the famous Soviet musical comedy by Grigory Alexandrov - directed by Maxim Didenko and starring Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Petrovsky Passage will host an exhibition by Katya Medvedeva, who works in the genre naive art, and on the stage Concert hall them. P.I. Tchaikovsky performance will be presented "Damn, Soldier and Violin" to music by Igor Stravinsky based on the fairy tales by Alexander Afanasiev.

Katya Medvedeva. "Madame Butterfly"

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Young viewers will also not be forgotten: on stage Moscow International House of Music there will be a concert young musicians accompanied National Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov, as well as jointly with a charitable foundation "Galchonok" play "Cherry Poetry", a unique project, each scene of which consists of a poem about a collective childhood memory.

Scene from the play "Cherry Poetry"

Of course, the most memorable and symbolic part of the festival — the planting of a cherry forest — will take place this year on the same scale as before. On the territory of the sports complex "Luzhniki" new seedlings will appear as a symbol of the constant renewal of art and the generational dialogue of masters with young talents, without which the development of the cultural context is impossible.

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In the final part of Moscow International House of Music Oleg Yankovsky Prize winners will be awarded « creative discovery» . The award ceremony in the form of a Murano glass cherry fruit autographed by the great actor will be the apotheosis of the festival, but by no means the finale. In July of this year "Cherry Forest" will present in Bolshoi Theater tour St. Petersburg State academic theater ballet by Boris Eifman with the world premiere of the play "Russian Hamlet".

For the seventeenth time, Bosco di Ciliegi is holding one of the most anticipated events of the year - the Cherry Forest Open Art Festival. Every year, Mikhail Kusnirovich and his team present the best and most interesting from the world of art, and this year is no exception.

One of its main events will be the exhibition “Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical insights”, with which the “Cherry Forest” will begin on April 20. In addition to painting, it will feature theatrical costumes for the Diaghilev ballet, sculptures, archival materials and photographs created by the surrealist. “This exhibition, which we have been preparing for a year and a half, is de Chirico's first exhibition in Russia. Before that, there was a project in 1929, where only three works of the artist were shown. One of the works was bought and kept in the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin, who now kindly provided us with this work, ”said Zelfira Tregulova, CEO State Tretyakov Gallery.

Avid theater-goers will be able to enjoy the premiere of the play "Circus" by Maxim Didenko with Ingeborga Dapkunaite in the title role, a musical production of A. Afanasiev's fairy tale in Concert hall them. P.I. Tchaikovsky or the play "Cherry Poetry", the scenes of which are built on poems about childhood memories. Art lovers will appreciate the work of Katya Medvedeva, a self-taught artist and representative of naive art.

By tradition, the festival will end with the planting of cherry trees, this time on the territory of Luzhniki. Every year, stars with their families take part in this event, which symbolizes the restoration of the lost Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" and the continuity of cultural tradition.

Christina Khomyakova

Held with the support of Bosco di Ciliegi

Cherry Forest Festival. Photo source: Bosco di Ciliegi website

The organizers of the XVII cultural festival "Cherry Forest" presented their program. In 2017, the project will host exhibitions, theatrical performances, concert and traditional planting of symbolic trees. April 20, the exposition “Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical insights” in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val will open the festival. This exhibition is a collection of the best 110 exhibits of the Italian surrealist. An exhibition of Katya Medvedeva will open in Petrovsky Passage. Then the Theater of Nations will show the performance "Circus" directed by Maxim Didenko. There will also be screenings in theaters. musical performance"The Devil, the Soldier and the Violin" (with the participation of Vladimir Pozner, Andrei Makarevich and others) and the play "Cherry Poetry", created with the support of the Galchonok Foundation. Music connoisseurs will be able to attend a joint concert by V. Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. And at the end of the festival, the winners of the "Creative Discovery" award will be solemnly presented with the image of the Cherry Fruit.

XVII open art festival "Chereshnevy Les" will be held in Moscow from April 20 to July 23, 2017.

Stars of the theater, cinema, television, artists, sports and business every year, often with their whole families, plant cherry trees. All these people are united by creative work and faith in the future. Today, the gardens planted by the participants and friends of the festival grow not only in Moscow: in Neskuchny Garden and Gorky Park, in the square of the Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, on Chistye Prudy opposite the Sovremennik Theatre, in Skolkovo, at VDNH, but also in the Mikhailovsky Garden near the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, in Sorrento in Italy and at the Marine Station in Sochi, symbolizing the restoration of the lost Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard" and the continuity of cultural tradition.

The festival brings together a variety of art forms - from theater and cinema, classical music and painting to youth open air and original art projects. Among the old and devoted friends of the festival: the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia under the direction of Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Bashmet and the Moscow Soloists Chamber Ensemble, pianist Denis Matsuev, saxophonist Igor Butman, theaters of the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and Sovremennik, sculptor Georgy Frangulyan, St. Petersburg choreographer Boris Eifman.

From the chamber music festival"Chereshnevy Les" has grown into one of the brightest events cultural life Moscow. These are not just concerts and exhibitions, this is an incomparable atmosphere, a revival of the traditions of musical and literary salons of the 19th century. "Chereshnevy Les" is a club of like-minded people, a lifestyle and a certain philosophy.

In the program of the XVII open festival of arts "Chereshnevy Les":

exhibition “Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical insights” in the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Here you can fully experience the incredible magic of the metaphysical paintings of the "master of dreams" and the forerunner of surrealism by Giorgio de Chirico. This is the first major retrospective Italian artist in Russia, organized jointly with the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation, which will feature more than 110 exhibits: painting, graphics, sculpture, theater costumes, archival materials and photographs;
premiere of the play "Circus" directed by Maxim Didenko at the Theater of Nations. main role Ingeborga Dapkunaite will perform in the stage version of the famous Soviet musical comedy by Grigory Alexandrov "Circus". This is the second collaboration between the actress and director: in December 2015, the Theater of Nations premiered the play The Idiot based on Dostoevsky's novel, where Dapkunaite played the role of Prince Myshkin. Perhaps the most sought-after theater artist is responsible for the design of the Circus recent years- Maria Tregubova. Composer Ivan Kushnir became another indispensable member of the creative team;
exhibition of one of the most famous representatives of naive art in Russia, the self-taught artist Katya Medvedeva in the walls of the aristocratic Petrovsky Passage. She took up the brush when she was already under forty - now her work is in museums and private collections around the world, and Western collectors call her work "painting of the naked soul";
world premiere new version musical performance "Song of a Soldier" in the Concert Hall. P. I. Tchaikovsky. Leading performers of the performance based on the fairy tales of Alexander Afanasiev to music by Igor Stravinsky: Vladimir Pozner, Andrei Makarevich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin);
concert by Vladimir Spivakov and the National Philharmonic Orchestra at the International House of Music.
traditional cherry forest planting: this year it will be planted on the territory of the Luzhniki sports complex.

In the final of the festival, the laureates of the Oleg Yankovsky Creative Discovery Prize will be announced. The sign of the award is the image of the Cherry Fruit. The glass cherry berry was made in the Murano workshops of the Venetian glassmaker Silvano Signoretto. On the cut - a personal autograph of Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky and the date - May 32. There are many nominees, but the names of new winners will be known only at the ceremony at the International House of Music. In their honor, the poetic program "Glimpse of Bella" performed by Chulpan Khamatova will be presented.

“If you want a garden to bloom, cultivate it,” says an Eastern proverb. The 17th Cherry Forest Open Arts Festival, which has already become a tradition in the capital's spring, has replenished its "flower garden" with new authors, genres and formats.

The festival kicks off with the vernissage of the exhibition “Giorgio de Chirico. Metaphysical insights" in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. The exhibition, organized jointly with the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation, will show more than 100 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, theatrical costumes made by the artist for Sergei Diaghilev's entreprise for the ballet "Ball" in 1929, as well as archival materials and photographs.

The project, which we have been preparing for a year and a half, is the first exhibition of the artist in Russia. Before that, there was a project in 1929, when only three of his works were shown. One of them was bought and kept in the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the museum kindly provided us with this work. Chronologically, the work of de Chirico will be presented from 1910 to 1970 and divided into several thematic sections, - said Zelfira Tregulova, general director of the Tretyakov Gallery, presenting the exposition.

Music program"The Cherry Forest" will celebrate the Year of Stravinsky with a specially created performance "The Devil, the Soldier and the Violin" based on the fairy tales of Alexander Afanasiev and the works of the composer. The famous musician Dmitry Sitkovetsky will take up the violin. Polina Osetinskaya (piano), Igor Fedorov (clarinet), Anton Pleskach (drums), Alexander Tronov and Anna Deltsova (dance) will also take part in the performance.

We used fragments from "The Story of a Soldier" and other works by Stravinsky, created at about the same time. These are the opera "Mavra", the ballet "Kiss of the Fairy" and others. The text was specially written for us by Mikhail Uspensky, - Dmitry Sitkovetsky presented the project.

The theatrical part of the festival is marked by cooperation with the Theater of Nations, on the stage of which director Maxim Didenko will show the musical "Circus", based on the legendary film of the same name by Grigory Alexandrov.

The picture, which appeared in 1936, sang the joy and happiness of life in the USSR - it, according to screen reality, resembled an endless holiday. And here the action takes place in a conditional future, which was invented in the distant past, - said Maxim Didenko.

He defines the style of his performance as retrofuturism. In the role of Marion Dixon, once played by Lyubov Orlova, is Ingeborga Dapkunaite. Also promised carpet clowns, circus tricks, a live orchestra, and even a black boy whose lullaby was sung by director and actor Solomon Mikhoels in the first version of The Circus.

The children's section of the festival is curated by National artist Vladimir Spivakov. A concert will be held at the Moscow International House of Music young musicians accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the maestro. Pianist Alexander Malofeev and violinist Daniel Lozakovich will take the stage.

The play "Cherry Poetry" is also intended for children - a joint project festival and charity fund "Galchonok". According to his inspiration, actress Yulia Peresild, the story will go about common childhood memories for all of us.

The traditional planting of a cherry forest, during which famous people retrained as amateur gardeners, will take place on the territory of the Luzhniki sports complex. In the final of the festival, the laureates of the Oleg Yankovsky Creative Discovery Prize will be announced. In their honor, the Bella Blues poetry program will be performed with the participation of Chulpan Khamatova.

The summer festival block will open with a tour of the St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater of Boris Eifman. On historical scene Bolshoi Theater the maestro will present the world premiere of the performance "Russian Hamlet".

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