The Golden Mask (, ''Zolotaya maska'') is a Russian theatre festival and the main national theatre award, established in 1994 by the Theatre Union of Russia. The award is given to productions in all genres of theatre art:

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operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

and

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, 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 performan ...

. The festival takes place every Spring in

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and presents the most significant performances from theaters all over Russia. The Golden Mask also includes annual tours of the best Russian productions all over the country and abroad, an online broadcast program, the ‘Golden Mask in cinema’ initiative, and many more.

History

Launch and early years

The establishment of the award was announced by Mikhail Ulyanov and Vladimir Urin at a press conference at the Union of Theatre Workers of Russia on the 14th of December, 1994.

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became the award's president (he served in this post until his demise in 2017). The award was meant to be non-commercial, with the winners receiving only the trophy mask and a diploma. Ulyanov believed that it should be an independent professional award, given for theatrical achievements, ‘from colleagues to colleagues’. Initially the award was focused only on Moscow theatre, the first awards (7 Masks for the 1993-94 season) were presented in 1995. The award was designed by in 1993. As confessed by the artist, he used masks of the Venezian Carnival as an inspiration and added to it an element of the Russian state symbolism, the two-headed eagle. Sheyncis created the first seven pieces in

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for the first ceremony, each mask took him a month to craft (later the masks were made of ceramics). In 1996, took over the management of the festival. As recalled by Natalia Nikolaeva, the award's director of public relations in 1998-2005, Boyakov was the main figure behind the future success of the Golden Mask. In 1996 drama, puppet theatre, opera and ballet were included in the award. During the

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, a team of only 10 people worked on sheer enthusiasm, organizing the award without any sponsorship or government support. In February 1996, the Union of Theatre Workers announced the expansion of the award to an all-Russia level. However, it seemed impossible for the jury to attend the plays in remote areas of the country, while only in the season 1996-97 250 premieres took place in Russia. That is why the management decided to select all-Russian nominees for the award among the winners of regional and thematic festivals and from the repertoire of the

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. The results of the 1997 Golden Mask sparked a major scandal among critics, theatre professionals, and all parties involved, including the Ministry of Culture: four awards in main nominations went to

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by Omsk State Academic Drama Theater. The ceremony itself caused a wave of criticism. The idea of the ceremony, designed by Vladimir Mirzoyev, was ‘the funeral of the theatre in the XX century’. The hosts

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and

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were dressed as gravediggers, Oksana Mysina delivered monologues on behalf of the ghost of Alisa Koonen. In an interview to

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newspaper, Alexander Kalyagin, Chairman of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation, admitted the fiasco with the 1997 ceremony but stressed that the Omsk theatre play had merited the awards it received. He said that he wanted ‘the Golden Masks to go further and further away from Moscow, and not only to settle in the capital's theatres. I wish that there would be discoveries, new names of talented artists, directors, and painters... I am sure there are such names in our vast country’. Despite all criticism, in 2006 Boyakov confirmed that he considered the 1997 ceremony the best in the Golden Mask's history: after ten years everyone still remembered it and talked about it. In 1999, the section ‘Operetta/Musical’ was added, a year later — ‘Contemporary Dance’. In 2001, the competition of dramatic performances was divided into ‘Large Form Performance’ and ‘Small Form Performance’. With time, the award grew to be the most important event in the Russian theatre world. In the 2000s and the 2010s, it was completely independent and equally distanced from the government, ministerial, sponsoring circles and the Theatre Union. In 2002,

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became the general sponsor of the festival. For the only time, in 2003 the ceremony was held outside Moscow: in honour of the 300th anniversary of

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, the

Mariinsky theatre The Mariinsky Theatre (, also transcribed as Maryinsky or Mariyinsky) is a historic opera house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th-century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces ...

was chosen as the venue. In 2005, Boyakov left the team and was succeeded by whom he chose himself as a long-time colleague who shared his vision. Under Revyakina, the Golden Mask kept growing. The budget for the ceremony in 2005 reached $100,000. In 2007, the Ministry of Culture became a co-operator of the Golden Mask and put forward the requirement to include its candidates in the expert council. In 2008, a nomination for lighting and costume designers was added to the competitive program. In 2013, a nomination for Supporting roles was introduced. In addition to the spring Moscow festival and the award ceremony, the Golden Mask included annual tours of the best Russian productions all over the country and in the Baltic states, occasionally reaching other European countries like

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and

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2013-2021

By 2013, the festival included competitive and non-competitive programmes. The competitive part included such sections as Drama, Puppetry, Ballet, Opera, Dance, Musical, Opera, New Names, etc. The non-competitive program included sections MaskaPlus, New Play, Context (for foreign plays), Mariinsky's Premieres, and many more. In 2016, the festival spanned for three months, from the beginning of February to the end of April, the management team grew to 30 while the number of participants exceeded 5000. Nomination of the scandalous ‘

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’ staged by

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sparked another major scandal, for the first time the scandal went beyond the boundaries of the professional community and became public. Vladimir Aristarkhov, First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, sharply criticized the Golden Mask: in his opinion, the award supported productions that ‘obviously contradicted moral norms, obviously provoke society, obviously contain elements of Russophobia, contempt for the history of our country, and deliberately go beyond moral boundaries’. He also expressed doubts that the state, represented by the Ministry of Culture, and the sponsor, represented by

, should financially support the festival’. On 29 May 2015, the independent trade union of theatre and cinema actors, chaired by Denis Kiris, sent a letter to Culture Minister

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, in which it also criticized the Golden Mask. State functionaries Nikolai Burlyayev, described the award as immoral. An open letter signed by 93 critics from 12 regions of Russia demanded the dissolution of the Golden Mask Award Board as being created under the strong influence of the Ministry of Culture. As a result, ‘Tannhäuser’, which received most of the nominations for the Golden Mask, did not go to the festival in Moscow and by the time of the award ceremony had disappeared from the nominees.

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and his

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publicly refused to participate in the award because some of the members of its expert council had written denunciations and libels against him and his theatre. Following numerous discussions, public hearings and meetings of the working group specially created by the Union of Theatre Workers and the Ministry of Culture, the new ‘Regulations on the Golden Mask Award and Festival’ were published on 4 April 2016. According to the new document, if the entire production is not nominated for the main category, then individual works in private categories such as Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, etc., cannot be awarded. In 2017, upon the demise of Taratorkin, Igor Kostolevsky took over as president of the Golden Mask. That year, in the special programme ‘Golden Mask in Cinema’ 4 plays were shown on the big screen in 60 cities. Over the years, about 200 theatre and music critics have been experts at the Golden Mask, and almost 500 professionals have served on the jury. The non-competitive projects of the award include ‘Golden Mask Online’, in 2021 broadcasts of this programme were watched by more than 900 thousand viewers. The list of nominees for the 2020-21 season included 81 performances by 67 theatres from 17 Russian cities.

2022-present

The 2020-2021 season was marked by a record number of nominees: 81 performances, 67 theatres, and 290 individual nominations among more than 1,150 productions reviewed by expert councils. By that time, the award had been given in 37 categories. In December 2022, Revyakina, who in early 2022 signed an open letter of theatre professionals against the invasion of Ukraine, was dismissed from her position. In August 2023, the Union of Theatre Workers announced that it would withdraw from the autonomous non-profit organization Golden Mask Award and Festival and would create its independent award and festival. By September of the same year, a new legal entity of the festival and a new directorate were formed. In December 2023

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became the president of the Golden Mask, Igor Krok became the vice president. Mashkov announced new priorities of the award: to restore the trust of the professional community, the State and sponsors. According to the amended regulations of the award, the lists of candidates for expert councils and juries will have to be formed within the union, approved by its head and coordinated with the Ministry of Culture, while associations, guilds and other unions of theatre professionals will be deprived of the right to nominate candidates. The Union of Theatre Workers also plans to shorten the list of nominations. The long-list of the nominees for 2022-23 included 94 performances of drama theatre and puppet theatre and 21 performances of musical theatre. For the first time, no plays were brought to Moscow. No awards were presented in eight categories at the 2024 ceremony, notably, in Drama Theater category for Best Playwright, the one that had been won by ‘Finist the Brave Falcon’ by

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and Svetlana Petriychuk and for which both women were arrested in 2023 on allegations of justifying terrorism.

Nominees and recipients

2012

* Best opera production — ''

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

Willard White Sir Willard Wentworth White, Order of Merit (Jamaica), OM, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 10 October 1946) is a Jamaican-born British operatic bass baritone. Early life White was born into a Jamaican family in Kingston, Jamaica, Kingst ...

* Best opera actress —

Albina Shagimuratova Albina Anvarovna Shagimuratova (; born 17 October 1979) is a Russian coloratura soprano. In 2019 her recording of the title role in ''Semiramide'' for Opera Rara won the International Opera Awards and the International Classical Music Awards (IC ...

* Best composer —

Leonid Desyatnikov Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (, born 16 October 1955 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR). He is a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory and a member of the Composers Union of St. Petersburg. Desyatnikov has written four operas, several cantatas and n ...

2013

* Best opera production — ''

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'' ( Stanislavsky Opera) * Best opera director — Dmitri Tcherniakov * Best opera conductor —

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* Best opera actor —

Ildar Abdrazakov Ildàr Amìrovich Abdrazàkov (; , ''Abdrazaqov İldar Ämir ulı''; born 26 September 1976) is a Russian bass opera singer. Honoured Artist of Russia (2021). Early life and career Abdrazakov was born in Ufa, the capital of the Republic of Bas ...

* Best opera actress —

Nadine Koutcher Nadine Koutcher (, 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 2003 she graduated from ...

* Best musical actor —

Ivan Ozhogin Ivan Gennadievich Ozhogin (Russian Иван Геннадьевич Ожогин, born September 1, 1978, in Ulyanovsk), is a Russian actor and singer best known for his work in musical theater. In 2013 he received ''Golden Mask (Russian award), ...

2014

* Best opera production — ''

Eugene Onegin ''Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse'' (, Reforms of Russian orthography, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ, ) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin. ''Onegin'' is considered a classic of ...

'' (

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) * Best opera director —

Andriy Zholdak Andriy Zholdak (, 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 Theater Oberhausen, Berliner Festspie ...

* Best opera conductor —

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* Best opera actor — Maxim Mironov * Best opera actress — Venera Gimadieva * Special prize —

2015

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

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* 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

2017

* Best opera production — '' Rodelinda'' (

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

* Best opera actor — Liparit Avetisyan * Best opera actress —

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2018

* Best opera production — ''Billy Budd'' (

) * Best opera director —

for ''Chaadasky'',

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* Best opera conductor —

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for the

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* Best ballet — ''Suite in White'' (

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) * Best ballet conductor —

for ''Cinderella'' (

Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre The Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theatre is an opera and ballet theatre in the city of Perm in Russia. It is one of the oldest theatres in the country, and it has remained a major musical centre during its history, in which many significant ...

) * Best drama production (Large) — ''Fear Love Desperation'' by

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(Maly Drama Theatre) * Best drama actress — Alla Demidova for ''Requiem, Poem Without a Hero'' by Serebrennikov in

2019

* Best ballet — '' Nureyev'' by

(

) * Best director in drama theatre —

for ''Little Tragedies'' (

) * Best drama production (Large form) — ''An Optimistic Tragedy'' by Victor Ryzhakov * Best actress —

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for a role in '' Three sisters'' (Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre) * Best production (Experiment) — ''Fairyland'' ( Theatre 18+)

2020

* Best production (Large) — ''Iran Conference'' by Viktor Ryzhakov (

) * Best production (Short) — ''Crime and Punishment'' by Konstantin Bogomolov (''Comedian's Refuge'' theatre) * Best director —

Dmitry Krymov Dmitry Anatolyevich Krymov (; born 1954) is a Russian artist, scenographer, teacher and theater director, recipient of the five Golden Mask Awards. Biography Family and early years Dmitry was born in Moscow to Anatoly Efros and . Efros ...

for ''Seryozha'' (Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre) * Best actress —

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for ''Seryozha'' (Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre) * Best playwright — Pavel Pryazhko for ''The Neighbour'' (''Teatr Post'')

2021

*Best Large Form Drama Production — ''The Tale of the Last Angel'' by

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(Moscow's Theatre of Nations) *Best Small Drama Production — ''Pinocchio. Theatre'' by Boris Yukhananov ( Electrotheatre Stanislavsky) * Best director — for ''Peer Gynt'' (Moscow Vakhtangov Theatre) * Best opera director — Dmitri Tcherniakov for ''

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'' (The

)

2022

* Best drama production (Large) — '' The Three Fat Men. Episode 7. The Teacher'' by

(

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) * Best drama production (Small) — ''Comrade Kislyakov'' by Andrey Kalinin (

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) * Best director —

for ''Mozart. Don Juan. The General Rehearsal'' (Fomenko Workshop Theatre) * Best playwright — Svetlana Petriychuk for ''Finist the Brave Falcon'' * Best actor —

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for ''Mozart. Don Juan. The General Rehearsal'' (Fomenko Workshop Theatre) * Jury Special Prize — ''Gorbachyov'' with

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and Yevgeny Mironov (

)

2023

* Best director — Lev Dodin for ''

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'' (

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) * Best drama production (Large) — Farid Bikchantiev for ''Muhajirs'' (

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) * Best drama production (Small) — ''General and his family'' by Svetlana Zemlyakova (Moscow Vakhtangov Theatre) * Best actress — Ilona Markarova for ''Ratcatcher'' (Di Capua Theatre) * Best actor — Alan Albegov for ''King Lear'' (Thapsaev Theatre)

References

External links

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