The Golden Mask (russian: Золотая Маска, ''zolotaya maska'') is a Russian theatre festival and the National Theatre Award established in 1994 by the Theatre Union of Russia. The award is given to productions in all genres of theatre art:

drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

ballet Ballet () is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the fifteenth century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It has since become a widespread and highly technical form of ...

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs, and dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, length of the work, and at face value, subject matter. Apart from its s ...

and

musical Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narr ...

, and

puppet theatre Puppetry is a form of theatre or performance that involves the manipulation of puppets – inanimate objects, often resembling some type of human or animal figure, that are animated or manipulated by a human called a puppeteer. Such a performa ...

. It presents the most significant performances from all over Russia in

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

in the spring of each year. The first Golden Mask award was given in 1995 presented by Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation. The President of the Award is

Igor Kostolevsky Igor Matveyevich Kostolevsky (russian: Игорь Матвеевич Костолевский; born 10 September 1948) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He has received the People's Artist of Russia title in 1995. Kostolevsky is best k ...

(who replaced the late

Georgi Taratorkin Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin (russian: Георгий Георгиевич Тараторкин; 11 January 1945 – 4 February 2017) was a Soviet-Russian film and stage actor who appeared in over 70 films between 1967 and 2017. He was the Se ...

in 2017).

Nominees and recipients

2012

* Best opera production - ''

The Tales of Hoffmann ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died ...

'' ( Stanislavsky Opera) * Best opera director - Georgy Isaakyan * Best opera conductor - Evgeny Brazhnik * Best opera actor -

Willard White Sir Willard Wentworth White, OM, CBE (born 10 October 1946) is a Jamaican-born British operatic bass baritone. Early life White was born into a Jamaican family in Kingston. His father was a dockworker, his mother a housewife. White first bega ...

* Best opera actress -

Albina Shagimuratova Albina Anvarovna Shagimuratova (russian: Альбина Анваровна Шагимуратова, link=no; born 17 October 1979) is a Russian coloratura soprano. In 2019 her recording of the title role in ''Semiramide'' for Opera Rara won the ...

* Best composer -

Leonid Desyatnikov Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (russian: Леони́д Арка́дьевич Деся́тников, born: 16 October 1955, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving gr ...

2013

* Best opera production - ''

A Midsummer Night's Dream ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' is a comedy written by William Shakespeare 1595 or 1596. The play is set in Athens, and consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta. One subplot involves a conflict amon ...

'' ( Stanislavsky Opera) * Best opera director -

Dmitri Tcherniakov Dmitri Tcherniakov (russian: Дмитрий Черняков) (born May 11, 1970) is a Russian theatre director, and winner of numerous national Golden Mask theatre awards, who works with many European opera houses. Biography Tcherniakov was bor ...

* Best opera conductor -

Teodor Currentzis Teodor Currentzis ( el, Θεόδωρος Κουρεντζής ; born 24 February 1972) is a Greek-Russian conductor, musician and actor. Biography Currentzis was born in Athens, and at age 4 began to take piano lessons. At age 7, he began vio ...

* Best opera actor -

Ildar Abdrazakov Ildar Amirovich Abdrazakov (russian: Ильда́р Ами́рович Абдраза́ков; ba, Абдразаҡов Илдар Әмир улы, ''Abdrazaqov İldar Ämir ulı''; born 26 September 1976) is a Russian bass opera singer. Honour ...

* Best opera actress -

Nadine Koutcher Nadine Koutcher ( be, Надзея Кучар, born 18 May 1983) is a Belarusian opera singer. A dramatic coloratura soprano, she was the winner of the 2015 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Life Koutcher was born in Minsk in 1983. In ...

2014

* Best opera production - ''

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Евгений Оне́гин, ромáн в стихáх, p=jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn, r=Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh) is a novel in verse written by Ale ...

'' (

Mikhailovsky Theatre The Mikhailovsky Theatre (russian: Миха́йловский теа́тр) is one of Russia's oldest opera and ballet houses. It was founded in 1833 and is situated in a historical building on 1, Arts Square in Saint Petersburg. It is named ...

) * Best opera director -

Andriy Zholdak Andriy Zholdak ( uk, Андрій Жолдак, born 18 November 1962) is a Ukrainian theatre director. From 2002 to 2005 he was the director at the Kharkiv Ukrainian Drama Theatre in Kharkiv. In 2006 Zholdak moved to Germany and worked at Theate ...

* Best opera conductor -

Jan Latham-Koenig Jan Betrand Latham-Koenig, (born 1953) is a British conductor. He was born in England, coming from French, Danish and Polish origins. He attended Highgate School and then studied at the Royal College of Music in London before he founded the K ...

* Best opera actor -

Maxim Mironov Maxim Vyacheslavovich Mironov (russian: Макси́м Вячесла́вович Миро́нов; born 30 September 1981 in Tula), is a Russian tenor, best known for his interpretation of the bel canto repertoire. In 2001, he joined the H ...

* Best opera actress -

Venera Gimadieva Venera Faritovna Gimadieva (Russian: Венера Фаритовна Гимадиева; born 28 May 1984) is a Russian operatic soprano. She is invited to opera houses around the world as one of the leading lyric coloratura sopranos of her gene ...

Timofey Kulyabin Timofey Aleksandrovich Kulyabin (russian: Тимофей Александрович Кулябин, links=no; born 10 October 1984, Izhevsk) is a Russian theater and opera director. Biography Kulyabin was one of the most prominent young theatre ...

, "Special prize"

2015

* Best opera production - '' The Indian Queen'' ( Perm Opera) * Best opera director -

Peter Sellars Peter Sellars (born September 27, 1957) is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where ...

* Best opera conductor -

* Best opera actor - Dmitry Belosselskiy * Best opera actress -

2016

* Best opera production - '' The Khovansky Affair'' ( Stanislavsky Opera) * Best opera director - Alexander Titel * Best opera conductor - Andrey Lebedev * Best opera actor - Aleksey Tatarintsev * Best opera actress -

Hibla Gerzmava Hibla Gerzmava (russian: Хи́бла Лева́рсовна Герзма́ва; ab, Хьыбла Леуарса-иҧҳа Герзмаа; born 6 January 1970) is an Abkhazian-Russian operatic soprano who currently resides in Moscow. Education an ...

2017

* Best opera production - '' Rodelinda'' (

Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre ( rus, Большо́й теа́тр, r=Bol'shoy teatr, literally "Big Theater", p=bɐlʲˈʂoj tʲɪˈatər) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, originally designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and ope ...

) * Best opera director - Richard Jones * Best opera conductor -

* Best opera actor - Liparit Avetisyan * Best opera actress -

Nadezhda Pavlova Nadezhda Vasilyevna Pavlova (russian: Надежда Васильевна Павлова; born 15 May 1956) is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer. People's Artist of the USSR (1984). Life and artistic output Nadia Pavlova liked to dance from an ...

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* Theatres in Russia Soviet theatre awards Russian theatre awards {{Theatre-stub

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