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On the evening of Monday, April 1, the XIV International Competition-Festival "Singing Mask" named after Andrey Petrov starts in St. Petersburg Photo: Educational Theater on Mokhovaya

According to the established tradition, the Andrey Petrov Singing Mask Festival will be held within the walls of the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RGISI). It will run until April 6th. This year the competition is dedicated to the 240th anniversary of RGISI. It is included in the program of celebrating the anniversary of the Institute.

According to the press service of the RGISI, the expert council of the competition reviewed 336 entries from participants from six countries of the world. The geography of the competition includes China, Mongolia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia.

In total, students from 14 Russian universities competed for the opportunity to participate in the competition for the most singing actors: St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Saratov, Yekaterinburg, Yaroslavl, Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Chelyabinsk. Young people had the opportunity to send several numbers claiming victory in the following categories: "Ensemble singing" (nominations " Choir, vocal ensemble (large form)”,“ Vocal Ensemble (small form) ”) and“ Solo Singing ”(nominations“ Actor song/Chanson», « Classical aria/Musical"," Jazz", "Pop song", "Songs of theater and cinema", "Folk song", "War song", "Parody - live sound").

A distinctive feature of the current competition was the creation of a professional expert council. It was he who, out of 336 numbers, selected 205 applicants for the main competition. They will be judged by a professional jury from 1 to 4 April.

This year, it included such masters as the director, professor of the University of Olsztyn (Poland) Zbigniew Marek Hass, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, actress of the Alexandrinsky Theater Galina Karelina, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation, composer, Andrey Petrov's daughter Olga Petrova, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation , musical director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, Professor of the RGISI Ivan Blagoder and other famous cultural figures.

According to the organizers, Andrey Petrov, whose name the competition bears, worked closely with the Institute on Mokhovaya. And the acting song was one of his favorite genres. Therefore, the criteria for evaluating the numbers of this genre will be not only the vocal abilities of the performers, but also their acting talent, able to turn each song into a real theatrical number.

On April 6 at 18.00 at the Educational Theater "On Mokhovaya" a large theatrical concert will be held, at which the names of the laureates will be announced. The evening will combine an awards ceremony and a gala concert of the best numbers " Singing mask-2019».

For everyone who this evening will not be able to be in the hall of the Educational Theater "

Last weekend at the Educational Theater on Mokhovaya, the winners of the XIII International Annual Competition-Festival RGISI "Singing Mask" named after Andrey Petrov were honored.

Once a year, the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts (RGISI), better known as the Theater Academy, holds within the walls of the Educational Theater on Mokhovaya the prestigious international competition-festival "Singing Mask".

The creative competition of young talents bears the name of the great St. Petersburg composer Andrei Petrov. And this is not at all accidental, because the actor's song was his favorite genre. And the evaluation criteria were not only the vocal abilities of the performers, but also their acting talent, thanks to which each song turned into a real theatrical number.

For example, it suffices to recall graduation performances of the Theater Academy, created at different times in this fascinating genre. Among them is the "Visible Song" on the course of G.A. Tovstonogov and "Oh, these stars" on the course of A.I. Katsman and L.A. Dodin. These musical performances were so popular that during the days of their screenings, mounted police were on duty at Mokhovaya Street, and it was more difficult to get tickets than for other performances of professional Leningrad theaters.

Perhaps, in memory of these magnificent works, in 2018, one new nomination was added to the existing nominations, which was described by Professor, Head of the Department of Vocal and Musical Education of the RGISI, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Music Director of the Alexandrinsky Theater Ivan Blagoder: The 35th anniversary of Katsman's legendary performance "Ah, these stars", so we decided to make a parody nomination. And we can say that quite a lot of interesting works were presented in it.”

The artistic director of the Singing Mask contest, Ivan Blagoder, was very pleased with both the abundance of nominations and the variety of forms, which included a folk song, a musical, an opera, and a purely dramatic performance. “All this allowed the contestants to express themselves in various forms,” he specified.

As the daughter of Andrei Petrov, Olga Andreevna, admitted to “PD”, this competition is special for her. She always accepts with great pleasure the offer to join the jury and waits with trepidation for new musical discoveries from young performers. “Students from all over the world take part in this competition. These are very young guys, a special category. They are 100% committed to execution. They have a lot of positive energy with which they infect literally every listener,” said Olga Petrova.

The jury noted that this year the competition turned out to be large-scale in terms of geography and very strong in terms of the composition of participants, because it was attended by students from the country's leading creative universities and the best theater academies in the world. Therefore, it was not at all easy to choose the most-most.

The jury and the audience remembered performers from Poland, Armenia and China, whose representative very tenderly and touchingly performed Andrey Petrov's romance "And in the end I will say ..." from the film "Cruel Romance".

Well, the Grand Prix was won by the representative of Brazil - a fourth-year student of the RGISI (course of Alexander Petrov) Cesar Camargo. Thanking the organizers and teachers of the competition, he, expressing the general mood of the hall, said: “Thank you, Singing Mask!”

On April 22, the Educational Theater on Mokhovaya will host a gala concert of the International Music Competition, which has been held by the St. Petersburg Theater Academy for almost 10 years.

Despite this, the event, beloved by many, is little known to the general public. VashDosug.ru decided to correct this injustice.

First you need to find out what this competition is, why it was created, when and why. Who better to tell this story than the founding father of the Singing Mask, Ivan Blagoder, Head of the Department of Vocal and Musical Education, St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts, musical director of performances at the Alexandrinsky Theater:

“The Singing Mask has existed for many years, but for several decades it was an exclusively cathedral competition, not leaving the small auditoriums of the institute on the big stage. Students loved him very much, especially since there was a special, warm atmosphere of mutual assistance and support. Over the years, the performances at the competition have grown to a very good dramatic, pop and ensemble level, and 8 years ago the idea was born and immediately embodied to transfer this institute event into the format of an international competition.

If at first we could invite only 2-3 countries, then gradually the possibilities and geography expanded, for example, this year we have a large number of participants from China, Finland, Poland, Scotland, Italy, Germany. At the same time, students of creative universities compete with each other, so that SPbGATI, the University of Culture, the Conservatory, and the Moscow Art Theater School meet on the same stage. This year, students from the Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, and Yaroslavl theater institutes arrived.”

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What nominations exist on the "Singing Mask"? A total of 8 pieces, they reflect and take into account all possible forms of song culture. In addition to the already mentioned serious section of the classical performance “Musical Theater Artist”, there is “Vocal Ensemble - Large Form”, “Vocal Ensemble - Small Form” (genre of performance - any, even pop music, even buffoonery, even classical, but the number of participants should not be less than 2 and not more than 11 people).

"The Singing Mask" is a competition named after Andrey Petrov, and therefore it is not surprising that there is a separate nomination with his songs. "Songs of theater and cinema", "Folk song", incendiary numbers in the section "Variety Artist" and the most beloved, most long-awaited and, undoubtedly, the most difficult nomination: "Artist of Drama Theater and Cinema", in which students try to impress the jury not only with his vocal abilities, but also with his artistry, "the presentation of the material."

As one of the participants, a fourth-year student of the pop department, says, “SPbGATI is a theater university, so sometimes even more attention is paid to acting qualities than to voice. You can sing very beautifully, but you can’t get anywhere, because the performance turned out to be boring, not beaten in any way from an acting point of view.

Nevertheless, given that not only acting institutes participate in the competition, Ivan Blagoder says about it this way: “Guests should be drawn to the dramatic possibilities of playing a song, and students of theater universities should be drawn to musical ones. Everyone has his own peak, to which he must strive.

With such a serious integrated approach, the jury should consist entirely of a wide variety of masters of their craft. So it is: opera singers, actors, directors, professors of all leading departments of SPbGATI (after all, the participant must be able to move beautifully - here is the department of plasticity for you, and to speak clearly - the department of speech, the department of musical theater criticism occupies a special place, and only about the department vocals and no need to speak). The jury is headed by the permanent head of the famous composer Leonid Desyatnikov.

There are no random people here, because the competition is too serious: firstly, this is a real opportunity to express yourself by passing the 1st round and winning the 2nd, or getting into the festival part of the competition: a gala concert where you can often see famous guests - directors, actors, singers. Secondly, the winners who take prizes receive good prizes from sponsors-philanthropists.

It is interesting that there are situations when, for example, the first and third prizes are awarded in a nomination, but the second prize is not awarded - the jury decides that there was no worthy contender for this place. After talking with the students, one gets the feeling that knowledge about the Singing Mask competition descends on them along with receiving a student card: everyone knows about this event, they are waiting for it, sometimes preparing for it for a whole year.

Despite the acquisition of an international status by the competition, it still retained those features of the student fraternity that so distinguished its cathedral incarnation. Here is what the students themselves say about this, at the same time revealing some organizational secrets: “Everything you need for the competition, you provide yourself - and the Academy, after your request, actively helps you with this: it is looking for an accompanist, instruments, costumes. Of course, if you need "girls with washcloths" to back-dance, you solve this problem yourself, but that's what classmates and friends are for. Either you ask someone, then, literally on the eve of the competition, they fly up to you with wild eyes and a request to play along - how can you refuse, because this is the "Singing Mask"!

"My heart stopped, my heart stopped."
February 29th happens every four years, which means something special and even magical should happen on this day. That is what happened to me. On the official last day of winter, I was lucky enough to be in my favorite theater of my childhood - the theater on Mokhovaya, not the play "The Last Cotillion". Of course, I expected that the production would be interesting, and, most likely, I would like it. But what I saw is beyond description!
1825, the Decembrist Uprising... At the same time a terrible and great event in our history. It feels like I've been transported back in time, with beautiful balls, enthusiastic speeches, secret societies and amazing people. But the most important thing is that I was transported and felt all that pain.
When you see how young, talented and intelligent people, risking their lives, organize an uprising not for themselves, but for ordinary people, so that life in the country becomes better, so that there is no serfdom.
"It's not about why I went out, but that it is IMPOSSIBLE NOT to go out!"
The amazing Bestuzhev family: brave and devoted brothers, a brave and worthy sister - a true lady and simply unimaginable mother of the family. The mother, who understood the great deed of her children, was proud of them and defended their honor.
"Father, what happens: when the brothers had success, then hold on to kinship, but when the trouble came, then renounce? No, this is not according to the commandments."
It was hard for me to imagine that this mother of a large family, who has turned gray over the years, is actually a 20-year-old girl who still has her whole life ahead of her.
I was generally struck by the women of that time: young girls, elderly ladies who "stand up" for their loved ones and prayed for them.
The prayer scene was simply mesmerizing and magical. Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, reading the Bible along with all the women, made me cry and mentally join them.
But, of course, what shocked me most of all was the scene of the Decembrists and their wives being sent into exile in Siberia. Seeing this fear and a huge, all-consuming love, which is not afraid of any obstacles, it becomes painful, bitter, and at the same time you feel proud of these people. Watching or even living this scene, I thought that my heart could not stand it and would simply break into pieces from an overabundance of emotions and feelings! Guys - actors really demonstrated the purity and depth of their broad soul. Seeing their eyes, after the performance, you understand that you want to be better, you want to create and do more.
"The Last Cotillion" is the case when you go out with wild eyes, "beat your chest", do not understand whether you want to talk a lot or want to be silent and, in the end, you understand that you have seen real magic and true love and you know that you will never forget this and you will hope that someday you will experience such emotions again!

For many, the Theater Academy is a place where drama theater and film actors are trained, but this is not entirely true. The oldest theater university in Russia, founded by Catherine II, - this year the academy celebrates its 235th anniversary - has long turned into a real theatrical university, where specialists of all professions necessary in the field of performing arts are trained: artists, directors, artists, screenwriters, technologists stage, producers, critics and historians of drama, musical and puppet theater, variety art, television directors.

The tradition of special musical education at the academy (in those years - the legendary LGITMiK) has existed since Soviet times. Many theater-goers remember graduation performances created at different times in the genre of acting songs: “Visible Song” on the course of G. A. Tovstonogov and “Oh, these stars” on the course of A. I. Katsman and L. A. Dodin). They were wildly popular! On the days of the screenings, mounted police were on duty at Mokhovaya, and it was more difficult to get tickets for student works than for other performances of professional Leningrad theaters.

Today, this tradition has evolved into the prestigious international competition-festival "Singing Mask", which bears the name of the outstanding composer Andrei Petrov, the author of music for many popular domestic films. The actor's song was the composer's favorite genre, which is why this genre is in the focus of the competition program. The evaluation criteria in it are not only the vocal abilities of the performers, but also their acting talent: each song will turn into a real theatrical number.

At the Singing Mask Gala Concert, the hall of the Na Mokhovaya Educational Theater was overcrowded, many who wished did not have enough space and had to be content with the Internet broadcast. This year the popular festival was held under the sign of the Year of Culture in Russia. Despite the difficult political situation, about 400 students from creative universities in our country, Finland, Germany, Poland and China gathered for the competition. They passed the strict selection of the jury, which was headed by one of the masters of modern European music - composer Leonid Desyatnikov. According to the results of two rounds, the best of the best were selected for the final concert program. Students of the masters of the academy - famous artists and directors: Lev Ehrenburg, Anna Aleksakhina, Boris Uvarov, Yuri Galtsev, Isaac Shtokbant and others, students of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov, the Novosibirsk State Theater Institute, the Chelyabinsk Academy of Culture and Arts, the Bavarian Theater Academy, the Theater Academy of the Helsinki University of the Arts.

The awards ceremony was held in a rare warm atmosphere. The audience cheered for each participant and rejoiced at the victories. It was impossible to hear the names of the laureates - they literally drowned in the applause of the public. The on-line shooting of the concert, organized by the department of television directors of the SPGATI, gave dynamics to what was happening. Close-ups, exits from behind the scenes, applause from the hall - all this was immediately broadcast on the screen located on the stage. Prizes and diplomas to the winners of the "Singing Mask" were presented by members of the expert jury - teachers of the Academy, leading artists, directors, composers of musical and drama theaters of St. Petersburg, eminent cultural figures of the Northern capital: actress of the Theater. Lensoveta, s.a. Russian Anna Kovalchuk, artist of MDT - Theater of Europe, n.a. Russian Petr Semak, Deputy Artistic Director of the Mariinsky Theater and General Director of the Musical Comedy Theater Yuri Schwarzkopf, Chairman of the St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia, artist of the Alexandrinsky Theater, n.a. Russia Sergey Parshin, artist of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, n.a. Russia Igor Volkov, daughter of A. Petrov, composer Olga Petrova, actress of the Alexandrinsky Theater, n.a. Russia, full member of the Academy of Russian Literature Galina Karelina, Ph.D. Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov, z.a. Russia, Professor Ivan Blagoder.

The concert absorbed all the genre diversity of musical culture: folk songs, ditties, choral numbers, arias from popular musicals, songs from films, military songs and marches, pop and bard songs, rock music. Clowning and eccentricity alternated with piercing lyrical compositions, ensemble choral performances with chamber numbers.

The energy of youth, the ease and joy of the game, the artistry and high professionalism demonstrated by the participants created that unique mood that has made the Singing Mask one of the most notable events of spring cultural life in St. Petersburg all these years.