About festival

For several years Unipro PJSC and the Orpheus Radio team have been searching for and restoring the undeservedly forgotten music of Russian composers. The immense historical and cultural value of the discovered material made it possible to stage two musical performances. Two world premieres will be presented to the audience at the Moscow-based "Novaya Opera" theatre as a part of the "Energy of Discoveries" Festival. These are the unique multimedia musical projects based on the works by Leonid Polovinkin (1894-1949) and Georgy Catoire (1861-1926).

February 13, 2020

Multimedia Musical Performance "Ship of Happiness" (dance drama)
Music by Leonid Polovinkin

Leonid Polovinkin is a prominent Russian composer and one of the leaders of the Russian musical avant-garde. He was very popular in the second half of the twenties-early thirties of the last century. His music was well known both in Russia and abroad. However, the fate of the composer and his musical heritage turned out to be tragic. The composer himself was not imprisoned during the Stalin-era repressions, but his works were 'repressed', so Polovinkin's music completely vanished from concert programs. The composer was forced to radically change his musical language, genre priorities, but many of his pieces were shelved in archives and stayed there for many decades – unknown and often never performed.

February 14, 2020

Multimedia Musical Project "Seven Bans"
Music: P.Tchaikovsky, G.Catoire, N.Golovanov, A.Mosolov

Nowadays the name of Georgy Catoire is well known only to classical musicians and is associated with his theoretical works on harmony. However, his first works were highly assessed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who played a really important role in formation of Catoire’s creative style. Several excerpts from the composer’s "Mtsyri" symphonic poem will be performed for the first time in this project.

"Catoire’s music is extremely emotionally saturated, it is perfect in form, interesting in content and rich harmonic language....I am deeply convinced that Catoire’s works are still awaiting their recognition, and this recognition will come soon! " (Alexander Goldenweizer)

«The Ship Called Happiness»

«The Ship Called Happiness»

13.02.2020
This year the organizers of the Festival “Energy of Discoveries” decided to pay the closest attention to Leonid Polovinkin’s works.

Personalities

Leonid Polovinkin
Music by
Leonid Polovinkin
Sergei Kondrashev
Conductor, Honoured Artist of Russia
Sergei Kondrashev
Irina Klenskaya
Text Writer
Irina Klenskaya
Alla Damsker
Playwright
Alla Damsker
Nikolai Androsov
Director and choreographer, Honoured Artist of Russia
Nikolai Androsov
Anatoli Belyi
Theatre and cinema actor, Honoured Artist of Russia
Anatoli Belyi
Katerina Shpitsa
Theatre and cinema actress
Katerina Shpitsa
Farukh Ruzimatov
Principal ballet dancer, People’s Artist of Russia
Farukh Ruzimatov
Marat Shemiunov, Irina Perren
Principal dancer of the St. Petersburg Mikhailovsky Theatre
Marat Shemiunov, Irina Perren
Olga Ionova
Soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre (soprano)
Olga Ionova
Maria Patrusheva
Soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre (mezzo-soprano)
Maria Patrusheva
Natalia Kreslina
Soloist of the Novaya Opera Theatre (soprano)
Natalia Kreslina
Ivan Ozhogin
Actor of musical theatre, singer, laureate of the National Theatre Award “Golden Mask”
Ivan Ozhogin
Igor Kantukov
Аrranged by
Igor Kantukov
Multimedia Musical Project «Seven Bans»

Multimedia Musical Project «Seven Bans»

14.02.2020
7 feelings, 7 events, 7 personal upheavals, 7 stories of human vices are shown from the most unexpected side. The narrator sets off to a journey along the river of life together with the audience, telling them 7 stories based on search for love undertaken by some famous people who lived on our planet.

Personalities

Georgy Katuar
Composer
Georgy Katuar
Sergei Kondrashev
Conductor, Honoured Artist of Russia
Sergei Kondrashev
Irina Klenskaya
Text Writer
Irina Klenskaya
Alla Damsker
Playwright
Alla Damsker
Irina Pyabinina
Producer
Irina Pyabinina
Elena Movenko
Video Art
Elena Movenko
Radio Orpheus
Симфонический оркестр
Radio Orpheus
Maxmim Drozd
Symphony Orchestra
Maxmim Drozd
Igor Kantukov
Аrranged by
Igor Kantukov

Partners