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Helikon Opera is a Russian opera company based in Moscow, specializing in unconventional productions.〔CBS News.("Russia's Love Of Opera" ) 17 March 1999.〕〔Charlton, Angela. (''Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg'' ). Frommer's (2010) p. 183. ISBN 0-470-53763-9〕 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. 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).〔Stolyarenko, Lyudmila. ("Rebels with a cause" ). ''Opera'', Volume 48, Issues 7-12 (1997) pp. 1170-1171〕 In October 2010, Helikon gave the first performance of Tchaikovsky's ''Mazeppa'' to be seen in Moscow in six years.〔Hodouchi, Ayano. ("Bad romance, Tchaikovsky style" ). ''The Moscow News'' October 14, 2010.〕 During the restoration works on the palace, begun in 2006, the company has performed temporarily in a small theatre at 11 Novy Arbat. ==Staff== *Artistic director, stage director — Dmitry Bertman *Principal conductor — Vladimir Ponkin *Set and costume designers — Igor Nezhny and Tatiana Tulubieva *Director of creative groups — Ilya Ilin *Chief chorus master — Eugene Ilin *General manager — Viktoria Pavlova *Technical director — Rostislav Protasov 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helikon Opera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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