"Helikon-Opera" will perform at the festival "Days of the Opera"

Moscow Musical Theatre "Helikon-Opera" under Dmitry Bertman will be the main guest of the international music festival "Days of the Opera", which will take place on the Estonian island of Saaremaa. Saaremaa Iceland - the largest island in Estonia, an area of more than two and a half thousand square kilometers. The major summer event of the local cultural and tourist life - takes place in July in the capital Kuressaare on the international music festival "Days of Saaremaa Opera." The festival takes place since 1999. In the courtyard of the castle built theatrical platform designed for 2000 seats. Medieval Nature and excellent acoustics to create a unique romantic atmosphere of this openeyra. During its existence, the "Days of Saaremaa Opera" became the most important opera festival in the Baltic Sea. , The famous festival in the Estonian music theater director Arne Mikk. Guests Kuressaare Castle was opera company famous all over the world, outstanding soloists and conductors, Jose Cura, Neeme Järvi, Eri Klas, Anna Aglatova, Hibla Gerzmava, Matti Salminen, Jaakko Ryuhanen, Ain Anger, Anneli Peebo, Christina Gailīte, Nadia Krasteva, Mario Dzeffiri , Carlos Moreno, Egil Silins, Johnny van Hal, Tatyana Anisimova and many others. The number of spectators attending the "Days of Saaremaa Opera" is growing every year, last year he reached twelve thousand. In 2012, the festival headlined "Days of Saaremaa Opera" an opera diva Karita Mattila from Finland and Moscow Musical Theatre "Helikon-Opera" under Dmitry Bertman will be. Karita Mattila - the world-famous soprano. She studied at the Helsinki and London. She made her debut in 1986 at Covent Garden in Party Fiordiligi in Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte". She has. At the Metropolitan Opera, the Theatre du Chatelet, Bastille Opera, the Vienna State Opera, the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, the Munich Opera Festival, the Salzburg Festival and other major opera houses She has worked with the greatest conductors of our time. Karita Mattila - winner of two Grammy Awards in 1998 and 2004. In 2001, the magazine The New York Times called it the best singer of the year. Magazine Musical America in 2005, with the title of musician Mattila year. And in 2007, including the magazine BBC Music Magazine. Singer in the top 20 sopranos in the history record Last Karita Mattila won awards Opera News Awards American magazine Opera News in 2011 that she was in New York on 29 April 2012 presented. 19th July, together with young soloists - Stars of "Helikon-Opera" artists choir and orchestra Karita Mattila take part in a gala concert at the Kuressaare Castle, a program to make the masterpieces of classical opera. In the control band that evening will be conducted by Markus Lehtinen from Finland. This concert will be the tradition of the joint action of the artist "Helikon" with the leading opera singers in the world, such as Angela Gheorghiu, Maria Guleghina, Roberto Alagna, Montserrat Caballé, José Cura, Norma Fantini and others. Moscow Theatre "Helikon-Opera." - A frequent visitor to the best foreign world stages For many years the theater and its artistic director Dmitry Bertman lives in the hope of returning to his home renovated building "Helikon-Opera" on Nikitskaya, planned for 2013. Meanwhile, the current in-house Glebovs Streshneva Shakhovskoy works, and the time and completely unsuitable for opera productions at the theater on New Arbat are performances of this repertoire, "Helikon" generously share their art with the public in Russia and abroad. "Helikon-Opera" was many times in Estonia, but in Saaremaa is first run. Theatre back on tour with gigs and concert programs at the National Opera, took six times in the festival "Birgitta", the last time in the summer of 2011 with performances of "Carmen" and "Mermaid". Art, theater, Dmitry Bertman staged at the National Opera "Estonia" several appearances. For posing fascist opera "Wallenberg" Estonian composer Erkki-Sven-Tyuyra Estonian President Dmitry Bertman awarded the Order of St. Mary of the Earth (Cross Maaryama) grade IV and the State Prize of Estonia. In August 2012 Dmitry Bertman begins work on "Faust" by Charles Gounod, the 20th at the National Opera "Estonia" September 2012 will be premiered. Guests from Moscow on stage three performances of Kuressaare Castle: a masterpiece of Russian opera classics - 17 "Boris Godunov" by Modest Mussorgsky edition of Dmitri Shostakovich ( July), a comic opera by Gioacchino Rossini's "Barber of Seville" (July 18), as well as contemporary American opera composer Jay Reese "Rasputin" (July 20). Bring three improvement in performance, with sets and costumes - not an easy task. The theater has a plane. Huge Boeing provided the theater NW teyr airline land on the eve of the festival at the only airport on the island. This is the first Boeing, landed on Saaremaa.