The ballet "The Blue Bird" was created based on the work of the famous Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck. Ilya Sats, the legendary Russian composer, father of the founder and inspirer of the children's musical theater, gave a modern edge to the unfading music of the legendary Russian composer Efrem Podgayts.
About the production
The resumption of the beloved play "The Blue Bird" at the Sats Theater took place in the landmark year 2016 - it was then that the Temple of Arts turned no less than half a century. This production is a tribute, a deep bow to the founder Natalia Sats. The production always collects full houses, being the hallmark of the theater, and in order to buy tickets for this amazing performance, you have to defend kilometer-long queues at the box office.
According to the artistic director Georgy Isahakyan, the undoubted advantage of The Blue Bird is the modern production team, which is on the same wavelength with today's audience, so the theatrical language of the play is very easy for the new generation to perceive. The scenographic solutions of the winner of the highest theatrical award "Golden Mask", Emil Kapeliush, please the eye of even the most sophisticated theatergoer, as well as the dazzling costumes of the artists, which were created by Stefania Graurogkaite.
Story line
They say that on New Year's Eve ... Yes, it is at this magical time that real miracles happen. This is what happened to the characters in our play. Tiltil and Mitil received an unusual gift from the fairy - a magic pipe. And this is where it started! Water came to life, Fire spoke, everything around started dancing and acquired human habits. Will the brother and sister be able to understand the true essence of things and objects that were previously inanimate? How to find the Bird of Happiness? Where does she live? The heroes of our play will have to go through inhuman trials in order to "catch by the tail" this magical feathered creature.
About the director
Kirill Simonov - original Russian choreographer, artistic director of the ballet theater. Sats. His performances are known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders. On the St. Petersburg, London, Tokyo, American and many other stages you can see his work. Laureate of prestigious competitions in the field of choreography and theatrical art, talented leader, virtuoso dancer, Honored Art Worker of Karelia.
Kirill Simonov, despite his young age, has already managed to be in a creative tandem with many legendary personalities, including well-known artists, artists and choreographers, whose names do not need additional advertising.
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The performance "The Blue Bird" 2019 will delight everyone - from young to old! You will get vivid impressions, and memories of a wonderfully spent day will warm your soul for more than one month.
Went with my son and husband to the play Blue Bird! To be honest, I did not expect such an impression, I watched this performance as a child, but it did not make a strong impression on me, I don’t even know why, it was boring and uninteresting. But in this theater I was amazed by the play of actors who literally take you to another world! My son is 5 years old, I thought he would get tired, but nothing like that, he looked spellbound! Now I want to go to other performances of this wonderful theater. Thank you so much for the story and kindness!
Julia Basova, January 2019
I love the Moscow Art Theater since childhood! My mother is also an avid theatergoer now, and in the distant 90s, a single mother with a beggarly teacher's salary, despite everything, she loved to visit the Temple of Melpomene, instilled in me this love. I brought my children to the legendary play "The Blue Bird", which I attended when I was still a baby. And how could it be otherwise? This mystical legend of the Moscow Art Theater, in which sounds and images come to life, where a fairy tale becomes a reality, and Maeterlinck's whimsical fantasies become an indisputable reality, where two worlds merge into one - otherworldly and real, has not left any spectator indifferent for many decades now!
Alla Oguz, January 21, 2019
I decided to remind myself of the taste of childhood and went on January 20 to the Blue Bird. What joy I gave myself! What delight I experienced! The performance is lively and interesting. Arriving home, I, like the heroes of the play, looked at the objects around me with different eyes and remembered that as a child, having visited this performance, I returned from the theater with the same impressions. Excellent scenography, good acting, music by Ilya Sats ... But in general - real magic on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky. And let it last as long as possible...
Tatiana and grandson Eric
Yesterday, January 12, 2019, we watched the play "The Blue Bird" with our grandson. We watched a lot of children's performances in different theatres. But I wanted to write a review after this performance, I just can’t help but write. My grandson and I are overwhelmed with delight. Magical, amazing performance. The acting, music, costumes, scenery are simply mesmerizing. 2 hours in a fairy tale, in one breath. There was complete silence in the hall, even small children looked at the stage as if spellbound. Thank you very much to everyone for the professional work, for such a sincere gift for the New Year.
Victoria, 45 years old, January 4, 2019
We watched the play "The Blue Bird" on January 2, 2019. A wonderful performance that teaches kindness, love and respect for loved ones, patience and mutual understanding. My 10 year old daughter watched with great pleasure. The language of the performance is very accessible and understandable even to small children. The duration is also optimal for viewing with children. Thank you so much for the story and WOW!!!
... Today we went to the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky to watch the play "The Blue Bird". Wonderful fairy tale performance. Pleasant music, lively scenery, bright, some of the characters are simply enchanting, costumes, an exciting plot lure into their networks and keep interest at the limit until the final closing of the curtain. “We will follow the blue bird in a long line ...” A fairy tale in which there is a place for discovery, both for adults and children. I really liked the performance, when I got home, I reviewed the film. The movie is from my childhood. Now I take it differently. Only a happy person can make others happy. Now I want to re-read this work so that the picture in my head is complete ...
Ulyana and Tatiana, September 25, 2018
This weekend, Ulyana and Tatyana visited the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky. We watched The Blue Bird, a legendary performance of the 20th century. On October 13, 1908, the premiere of the play took place on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater. The production was a huge success and does not leave the stage to this day. "The Blue Bird", as before, "delights children and awakens serious thoughts in adults," just as Stanislavsky intended! On Christmas night, at the request of the fairy, the little heroes of the play go looking for the Blue Bird, a symbol of happiness. And although the children return home without the Blue Bird, they discover for themselves and all of us that happiness lies in good deeds and helping others. The performance is wonderful! Our girls understood the idea of the performance, remembered the characters, reacted very emotionally and the memory of the performance remained bright and warm. It was the first time we went to such an adult performance, and even the very atmosphere of the classical art theater, which was very special, made an impression on the girls.
Hope L.
January 21, 2018. The play "The Blue Bird" has ended, where my friend Roman Titov played Bread! Perhaps, I haven’t seen such a spectacle for a long time, when at certain moments the hall (and this is a daytime performance, where mainly children) froze with delight, and there was such silence that you could hear your heart beating!!! How could young actors (mostly young people who were just beginning their life on stage) achieve such success?! Of course, the school of the great master T.V. Doronina.
In my opinion, the "Blue Bird" of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky is a must-see if you want to instill in your child a love for classical art theater. The daughter said: “But it would be great to combine ballet and drama, during the main musical theme I really wanted to see a backup dancer. But Baba Yaga is against it, it’s better to watch both and read the book. Then in your head and in your heart everything will fit right.
The action captivates from the first minutes. And it is precisely this chamber darkness, the play of light and shadow ... Yes, this is a performance from the last century. When children still knew how to read long books, follow a leisurely conversation, look, think and take their time... The dark stage allows you to perfectly place light accents, immerses you in what is happening... Each scene is perfectly balanced - nothing superfluous, but all the main thoughts of Maeterlinck found reflection. Land of memories - how important it is to remember those who left, because they live only in our thoughts and memories. Night Palace - you need to be able to overcome your fears in the name of the main cause. And the most important - you need to be able to give something dear to you in order to make another person happy, and then you will be happy too ... All these thesis thoughts are not mine - they were voiced after the performance by the children. So the art hit the mark...
Marina, 47 years old
Thank you for the wonderful performance "Blue Bird"! Very beautiful, spectacular, interesting performance! My 5-year-old son looked with his mouth open ... On the way, we discussed the heroes for a long time, discussed ..
The mystical Blue Bird has become the emblem of the theatre, it seems to be hovering over it – the statue of the Blue Bird is installed at the very top of the building. Once upon a time, the play "The Blue Bird" by the Moscow Art Theater was the first production that the greatest masters of the stage - K. Stanislavsky, L. Sulerzhitsky, I. Moskvin, A. Koonen - dedicated to children. Therefore, the Blue Bird has become a guiding symbol for the founder of the entire children's theater movement, Natalia Sats, and, of course, a symbol of her most important brainchild - the world's first musical theater for young spectators. One of the traditions of the Sats Theater is to open the season with the Blue Bird ballet. And in the year of its fiftieth anniversary, already as a nod to Natalia Sats herself, the theater breathed new life into the famous ballet, giving the unfading music of Ilya Sats a first-class modern cut by one of the leading Russian composers Efrem Podgayets. The performance was staged by one of the most interesting and original modern Russian choreographers Kirill Simonov and a famous theater designer, a recognized master of "animated scenography" Emil Kapelyush together with their colleagues: costume designer Stefania Graurogkaite, lighting designer Evgeny Ganzburg. The production's musical director and conductor is Konstantin Khvatynets, a longtime pupil of the theatre, and now chief conductor of the Moscow Academic Operetta Theatre.
From an article by Zinaida Nesterova (Trud, 2013):
75 years after the premiere of The Blue Bird at the Moscow Art Theater, in 1983, Natalia Sats will stage the ballet The Blue Bird to the music of Ilya Sats and Mikhail Raukhverger. And this performance (which has become a kind of symbol of the theater and remains in the repertoire to this day), as well as the sculpture above the facade, will become the Blue Bird of Luck that Natalia Sats managed to catch.<...>
As a child, Natasha Sats watched the legendary performance of the Moscow Art Theater "The Blue Bird", the music for which was written by her father Ilya Sats. Little Natasha was very upset that the heroes of the fairy tale did not catch the Blue Bird, and then declared: “And I will catch my Blue Bird!” In 1979, the magical Blue Bird on a golden harp adorned the world's first children's musical theater - her statue seems to soar above the facade of the building.
Fragments from the book of Natalia Ilyinichna Sats "Novels of my life":
“For children, the theater has preserved one of its very first productions - the play by the Belgian playwright M. Maeterlinck “The Blue Bird”. This is a fairy tale play, the adventures of a boy and a girl who are looking for the Blue Bird. This is not an ordinary bird: whoever finds it will find happiness for all mankind. Children have to overcome many obstacles. They travel not only in space, but also in time: they visit both the past and the future, they find themselves in the countries of fiction and dreams, they understand the language of animals. Everything is magical, everything is fantastic in this play: the plot, the characters, and the costumes.
The mood of unusualness, the feeling of something fabulous is also created by the music of the performance. It miraculously merges with what is happening on the stage, complements and enhances the impression. It would seem that this music is simple, unpretentious ... And how it sinks into the soul, into the memory of a person and continues to sound in the ears long after the performance. This music was written by composer Ilya Sats.<...>
The Blue Bird was the best, the only children's performance of its kind of great art.<...>
“At the name of Ilya Sats, I have an amazing, almost fabulous memory of the winter of 1912 in Moscow, of smoky sunsets over Presnya, of bells and the whistle of runners - of that old Moscow, where in a quiet lane near Okhotny Ryad it already shone like some mysterious and a gem, the young Art Theatre.
I treated this theater with reverence - just like all of Russia at that time. For me, he was the embodiment of courage, advanced thought, new art, just published and not yet dimmed by the hot breath of time.
The first performance I saw at the Art Theater at that time was Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird with surprisingly transparent and classical music by Ilya Sats. It seemed to me then that this music resounded among the shaggy snows of Moscow, like singing from the country where the action of The Blue Bird took place, like singing from those islands, far away as a dream, from where the sad voice of Maeterlinck was heard.
The music of Sats was so clear that it immediately entered the heart of our generation and remained in it for life.
All of Russia then sang: “Goodbye, goodbye, it’s time for us to leave,” a slight sadness, farewell to our loved ones, told us that we were in love with the art that was blossoming before our eyes. We became contemporaries of the history of art, and pride in his talent filled our hearts.” (K.G. Paustovsky)
The production of the full-length ballet The Blue Bird won considerable success. The emblem of our theatre, which arose from the brightest impression of my childhood - the Blue Bird - turned into a ballet by our common ups and downs. His favorite roots are in the music of his father, composer Ilya Sats, to the play by Maurice Maeterlinck, which has been on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater since 1908, the theater of K.S. Stanislavsky.
The new and new birth of what I once fell deeply in love with is probably typical for me as a theater director. Is it bad? But, of course, the favorite themes of the music of my dear father Ilya Sats in the ballet had to receive a full-fledged symphonic development, sometimes rethinking. Composer Mikhail Rafailovich Raukhverger, with his usual skill, presented us with a new, very remarkable score. Our conductor Leopold Gershkovich worked with him with inspiration. The librettists who had already worked together on The Fly-Tsokotukha did their job passionately, and as a result, Boris Lyapaev's production of The Blue Bird by children, adults, the public and the press was unanimously recognized as very successful.
My report, which dealt with the creation of The Blue Bird at the Moscow Art Theatre, was especially successful. It was, in fact, not a report, but, as the press wrote, "the theater of one actor." I not only spoke, but played the piano, sang - the interpreter could hardly keep up with me. The audience sometimes gestured for her to be silent, especially when I depicted the birth of the mise-en-scenes found by K.S. Stanislavsky, L.A. Sulerzhitsky, I.M. Moskvin, and immediately ran to the piano to color the action with the music of her father. The episode caused an ovation when she told how, following the image of Water, the directors created the image of Fire. The table I was standing at was covered with a fiery red Chinese silk tablecloth that hung down to the floor. And, imagine, during my story, our choreographer Boris Lyapaev appears from under the table, tears off the tablecloth and begins to play with it, as if with tongues of living flame. His dance-improvisation became, as it were, the first splash of the future ballet "The Blue Bird", staged by the theater much later.
"The Blue Blue Bird" is a musical fairy tale for children and adults. A bright spectacular performance with many special effects and tricks, where the characters, and the audience along with them, answer seemingly simple questions about eternal values.
About the musical "Blue Blue Bird"
The play "The Blue Blue Bird" is based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. The well-known plot was rethought by director Oleg Glushkov in a modern way. The result is a new original story, the main characters of which, the girl Matilda and her brother Til, travel through fairy tale countries. They will meet with a variety of fairy-tale characters: the queen of the night, Napoleon cake, the keeper of time, monsters from the closet and many others - there will be fifty of them in total.
The play premiered on November 30, 2017. Since then, he has been on the stage of the Theater of Nations quite often, but, nevertheless, it is still difficult - the hall is always sold out. The Blue Blue Bird at the Theater of Nations has become a truly outstanding event in the theatrical life of Moscow.
Actors and director
The main roles in the play "The Blue Blue Bird" in 2019 are played by singer and actress Musya Totibadze and actor of the Theater of Nations Pavel Akimkin. True, if you and your child decide to look at them, you need to consider that this is not the only composition. The performance was directed by Oleg Glushkov. Moscow theatergoers know him for his work in other metropolitan theaters - the latest was the sensational production of "Sailors and Whores" in the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop.
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Putting on performances for children is much more difficult than for adults. Young viewers are not able to hide not only delight and admiration, but also indifference and disappointment. After the end of the "Blue Blue Bird" the guys always leave the hall satisfied, with eyes shining with happiness - an interesting plot and bright special effects invariably do their job.