The Ostafyevo Museum-Estate will host the Night of the Arts event
On November 4, 2022, the X All-Russian annual action “Night of the Arts” and the Day of National Unity will be held at the Ostafyevo Museum-Estate – “Russian Parnassus”.
The museum-estate “Ostafyevo” has a large festive program, a rich motive for the presence of tradition and the unifying power of music as an art form. The program of the gathering with the selection of the Moscow concert tour of the XXVI professional competition of young figures of the Russian romance “Romansiada”, which will be held in the Oval Hall of the estate temple in two stages: at the first event, the participants – students of conservatories, theater universities aged 17 to 26 years old – will perform classical romance of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the second place, a salon romance will be presented to the jury. The winners of the audition contest, who took 1st place, reached the final of the Big Romansiada contest.
The most important event of the festive Day was the gala concert of the XXVI Moscow International Competition for Young Representatives of Russian Romance. The history of the Romansiada began its journey twenty-six years ago in the Oval Hall of the Main House of the Ostafyevo Estate – Russian Parnassus. Since then, the geography of the competition has greatly expanded: Siberian, Kazakh, Balkan, Donetsk, Belarusian, Central Asian, Armenian and Mediterranean – a far from complete list of ongoing novels that unite different cultures and peoples of a common love for music.
The winners of the qualifying round, as well as members of the jury, will take part in the Gala Concert: Galina Preobrazhenskaya – artistic director of the competition, Honored Art Worker, Honored Artist of Russia; Irina Krutova – Laureate of the competition “Romansiada-2002”; Marina Shutova – Honored Artist of Russia, soloist of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia, associate professor; Boris Kudryavtsev – People’s Artist of Russia, professor; Alexey Sulimov – soloist of the Chamber Stage. B.A. Pokrovsky Bolshoi Theater of Russia; Alexander Fedotov – Laureate of the competition “Romansiade-2009”, senior teacher of the vocal art department of the Tyumen State Institute of Culture; Oksana Petrichenko – Laureate of international competitions.
On the website and in social networks During the day, the museum will be able to take part in the online quiz of the first round of the Musical Olympiad.
The X All-Russian annual Action “Night of the Arts-2022” starts with a direct exit from the Oval Hall of the Palace of the Estate of the Gala Concert of the Moscow Tour of the XXVIth Competition for Young Performers of Russian Romance at portal Culture.rf and museum on social media at 18:00.
– We are sure that music makes the world a better place, it happens to people like no other art. And in the unity, traditions and friendship of peoples, there is great strength and a solid foundation for wide dissemination. That is why we dedicated the Night of the Arts 2022 to the combined power of music and the traditions of Russian romance,
– says the museum-estate “Ostafyevo” Yuri Yevtyukhin.
On the Night of the Arts, the guests of the estate will have a free interactive tour of the exhibition of costumed porcelain sculpture “Masquerade in Ostafyevo”, where participants will get acquainted with the traditions of noble balls and masquerades, and in the discussion of the part they will learn the programs of the secret language of flowers and fans, and also experience the experience in their hands . The exhibition tells about the traditions of noble balls, which became widespread in the 18th – early 20th centuries.
The exposition presents 45 handmade porcelain dolls, made by the chief artist of the gallery Anastasia Chizhova – Olina Wentzel, in a single copy. In the manufacture of costumes, antique fabrics and lace, natural materials are presented: silk, wool, velvet, leather. The tour will start at 19:00.
In the museum you can also visit the exhibition: “The Bead Game” – a collection of accessories and interior items made of beads of the 18th-19th centuries from the collection of the State Museum Reserve “Ostankino and Kuskovo”, “Famous guests of the Ostafyevo estate”. N.V. Gogol” – graphic student works of VGIK based on the plot of Nikolai Gogol, “With a pen and a sword. Russian Writers in the Patriotic War of 1812. Future exhibitions for a free visit to the museum: “Decoration of the Ostafevsky House”, “N.M. Karamzin: life and works”, “Ostafyevo estate: history and destiny”.
Among the online events on the museum’s website and in social networks, you can watch the educational program “Music in the Russian Estate”, a story about the works of A.S. Pushkin, where operas and romances were repeatedly composed, the creators of composers, a master class in painting “Introduction to the Muses: Euterpe”.
The museum funds will present material on commemorative medals in honor of the great Russian composers – M. Glinka, P. Tchaikovsky, M. Mussorgsky, who were present in their works of the heritage of French musical art with Russian folk melodies, creating works that have become outstanding parts of the tradition and cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia .
Entrance to the “Night of the Arts” in the museum and park from 18:00 to 21:00 is free.
Press service of the museum-estate “Ostafyevo” – “Russian Parnassus”