Helikon Opera

Helikon Opera is a Russian opera company based in Moscow, specializing in unconventional productions.[1][2] Their main performing base is the 250 seat Mayakovsky Theater, the former ballroom in the palace of the Shakhovskoi-Glebov-Streshneva family who were patrons of the arts in 19th century Moscow. The company was founded by Dmitry Bertman and gave its first performance, Stravinsky's Mavra, on April 10, 1990.

History

Helikon Opera gives 200 performances a year, primarily in Moscow but also abroad, performing in the UK for the first time in 1997. The company's repertoire includes both mainstream works and rarely performed operas and chamber operas. In the past they have staged Fleishman's Rothschild's Violin, Hindemith's Hin und zurück and Prokofiev's Maddalena and were the first company to revive Tchaikovsky's Undine (1994) and to stage Prokofiev's The Ugly Duckling (1992).[3] In October 2010, Helikon gave the first performance of Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa to be seen in Moscow in six years.[4]

References
  1. CBS News."Russia's Love Of Opera" 17 March 1999.
  2. Charlton, Angela. Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg. Frommer's (2010) p. 183. ISBN 0-470-53763-9
  3. Stolyarenko, Lyudmila. "Rebels with a cause". Opera, Volume 48, Issues 7-12 (1997) pp. 1170-1171
  4. Hodouchi, Ayano. "Bad romance, Tchaikovsky style" Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. The Moscow News October 14, 2010.
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