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hello, you are watching the program “say don’t be silent”, in the studio of victoria popova and tatyana shcherbina. and today our guest is the people's artist of the ussr and the bssr, laureate of the state prize of the republic of belarus, artistic director of the bolshoi theater of belarus, valentin elizariev. good afternoon, valentin nikolaevich. valentin nikolaevich, you celebrated anniversaries last year, there were a lot of films, articles, interviews dedicated to you, but we waited a pause.

uh, time just passes so much quickly, probably, now there was another anniversary in october, i turned another date of birth, so i remembered a lot of what surrounded me, who surrounded me, with whom i worked, with whom i studied, i remembered my parents, so... .probably thought about some

intermediate results that did happen, well, i’m such a bit of a prickly sharp person, and i love to fight for a just cause, for, first of all, for my profession, so i was very lucky with my parents, who always supported my.

the dark ages represented as a fortress ikhan palace, amazing people , a multilingual public, this city , of course, had a great influence on me in childhood, and of course my parents, who always tried to support me, my dad was a military man, and in general my whole family was military, and my grandfathers and great-grandfathers,

he served in western ukraine, a very young boy, and on the last ambulance train he was taken deep into the soviet union. my mother, a refugee, was from ukraine, where everyone fled from hunger, that’s where they fled, well, first of all, on wednesday this was partially ukrainian-language. after she died of hunger, her father, mother, sisters, two older brothers picked her up and took her to sochi , so she studied in a girls’ school, then before the war all schools were separate, for girls and

boys, but the war found her in ninth grade at a sochi school, i was already very close to sochi, 30 km away, this is a beautiful place, krasnaya polyana, here are the red army soldiers, in daylight there they fought, shot, defended, advanced, and the girls who were mobilized stood at night with weapons they were guarded by these guns, mother... she said that the austro-german division was drunk, he was just at war, that’s what they were drunk, bawling, singing on horseback, these are mountains,

there’s no other way to get there, they rode up to them on horses, didn’t touch any of the girls, and but, of course, it was very scary and... the memories of father and mother about the war, of course, are very impressive, sad and at the same time joyful, because everything ended in victory, but mother and father met, already father was sent to fight again after the hospital , mother and father met already as employees of the nineteenth armyledze, which guarded.

year, my elder sister was born, who lived very briefly, then she was born in 1947, i and 10 years later another sister was born, so my sister and i are alive, happy, love each other very much, we still have this connection , this is the only relative i have, this is my sister, the first sura from... the koran, peace be upon him who enters your city. architecture is, just like ballet in part, it is frozen music. rather, it’s 101 nights,

azerbaijan, the eastern ones have a lot of wisdom of people. i would like you to show what a miracle, this is the presidium of the academy of sciences of azerbaijan, my mother worked as a chief accountant, now i can even show you the balcony where my mother’s office was, you see, i must say that in a sense i am the darling of fate, i am with childhood i knew what i wanted, i was very passionate.

in baku at the choreographic school, where i started, there is a very good yard, there are a lot of them.

it is here that he understands all the nuances of the east, he knows perfectly well the restraint of the north, its greatness, this combines this, this great skill, this is a door, but here it’s a self-built building, here it was a two-story house, in the second apartment, which means that this is how you enter the entrance right away to the apartment, but here it was set up on this side, on this side, this is itself... the second already, but so he was twice as thin,

then he transferred to leningrad, i was assigned to a boarding school where i lived, in this photo we see that you, in general, were always, yes, with mommy, you were strong, and i was always from the first minute of meeting you, it was embarrassing, but in the sense that we are used to ballet dancers, they are like... like that, they are very different ballet dancers, they can be useful everywhere, there are premieres, who are exquisite premier figures, who perform princes and so on, that is, you were accepted into leningrad even, well, in general - in such a strong body, i never thought about the career of a prince, and it was enough for me that i entered... an institution that gave me a lot of academic knowledge, so i studied and deliberately entered school at

the leningrad conservatory to to great teachers, how everything in life is balanced, you know, good and evil, good and bad and so on, but i love this city, it is a very beautiful street and the conservatory is located. here the height of the houses is equal to the width of the street, it is in perfect condition, here is the entrance to the russian ballet academy. i received a good

basic education, probably the best for those years that could be obtained in the soviet union. i started, i started performing while i was still preparing to become an artist, on my classmates, on children younger than me, it really fascinated me. and after graduating from college, i entered the conservatory with teachers, which. he will not limit himself to the program, he will then look at the libretto, they very often note

that you knew the composers thoroughly, why he wrote this work one way or another, you knew painting very well, it seems to me that this st. petersburg insight is also evident, it can be seen in all of yours productions that live for decades, valentin nikolaevich, this is the secret of the longevity of these performances, what do you think, i don’t know, i put my soul into each performance, then the performances live partly independently life, then they live with the people, with the public, and i artificially.

minsk never before the war, it only became the capital of belarus before the war, so it was never a capital city, so now it has such a, well, gloss, of a city that is exactly a capital city, yes, this is all happening before my eyes, and i am very glad that minsk is still developing, it is

also a very beautiful, very warm city, very soulful, which i appreciate. very much, have you fallen in love with some place in minsk, if we have already talked about the love you share with the stage, with the big theater, something else besides the big one, where you like to go and maybe with your family and even grandchildren, my two favorite places are the theater, the big theater, our cozy little apartment, probably... i appreciate minsk for the fact that he played a very important role in my career, in minsk i remained as and developed as an artist, after all, i was given great opportunities, i was given a large theater, i had the opportunity to form a company, create

performances, and it’s worth dear, no one here neither before nor after, it seems to me, this is the first recognition or something, so i staged my diploma work in moscow, in the moscow classical ballet team, and was officially invited by distribution, the city of minsk, since then this is my fate, it was 1973 year, connected with belarus, i

didn’t know anything about belarus, i came, saw the stage, i really... liked it, and i promised myself that i would stage several performances here, and how my fate will turn out is god’s will, that will be with me further, well , it turned out that i met interesting artists, who i started with, they were young people then, so i had to - well , experience a feeling of joy, a feeling of creativity, a feeling. creativity, because ballet is co-creation, it is a synthetic art , in which there are many components, music, dance , scenography, costume art, and so on and so forth, everything must come together in order to make a performance. let's hear how

nikolai teskoritsev remembered carmina burana in your production? i remember carmina burana. very good performers, tatyana shemitovets and vladimir komkov. but it’s hard for me to imagine that your productions at one time caused consternation among conservatives.

title and even then the most mature one, it goes out to the public. you have a creative spouse, you are creative, is this a union of two personalities, or

is it more of a struggle, constant competition? no, we had no competition, my wife is an amazing person, she is almost an encyclopedia, she knows everything, i am very proud of her and i am very lucky. i have to accomplish this for the rest of my life, this is great, but with this we will end with yours creative plans, you know, a favorite journalistic question, it sounds at the end of the interview, let's take a break for a moment, i remind you

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don’t miss new episodes on the belarus 24 tv channel . the “say don’t be silent” program is on air again and today our guest is the people’s artist of the ussr and the bssr, laureate of the state prize of the republic of belarus, artistic director of the bolshoi theater. to opera

ballet productions, only in quality, only in the quality of performances, so it seems to me that interest is maintained, there are always a lot of young people in the audience and that to me pleases a variety of categories, dressed differently, speaking differently, and discussing issues, i think that the fact that they are not indifferent to the theater, this is rolling out on the internet and it seems to me that it is young people who we try to get to visit our theater , because these are not always fully formed souls, these are not always fully formed characters, after all, let’s say that musical theater and choreographic theater, let’s say, if we

are talking about ballet, then... it is necessary that it is necessary, as they said, well, the ancient greeks, what should be in the theater happen, catharsis, yes , we must still use the means of art, theater, to make a person better, you see, perhaps you will not agree with me, i believe that ballet, opera, yes, you need to attend the same

production. at different ages , that is, several times, necessarily , because it often happens that a young man, who has not yet formed a personality there, came to the opera house at the age of 16 or 15, to listen to an opera or watch a ballet, but did not like it, and only years later 10, maybe he'll take it all in differently, because something has already happened in his life during this time, you know, if a theater survives for 10 years because renovations take place, there are performances that die a natural death, simply or...

or something, but when not a professional who must keep an eye on the performance, and here i completely agree with you, i know that you have a favorite place in the hall, and today, fortunately, you keep an eye on your performances, and i would like to know how you explain the success of the international spartak, for today it is the most popular ballet of the belarusian woman, well, it just so happened, it’s just the last time that all the trips.

events, namely that spartak was invited to the last two trips, the next ones may be other performances, it all depends on the inviting party, what they want to see, i know that... and the problems of the theater are that part of the questions that you would like today to discuss with us, in particular, well , the shortage of personnel, all the corpses are experiencing, what do you attribute this to? we have one theater in our country, magnificent theaters, a magnificent building, well the problems that have accumulated, of course , exist, and above all the problem of retaining personnel, the problem...

does not bring us visible personnel who have great prospects, average materials come to this, very rarely from the students of current school graduates, it is possible to create our future premieres and ballerinas who would grace the coming years, how to get out of the situation, valentin nikolaevich, with whom to work? "for now we are working with those who are there, so we are inviting people from russia for some temporary contracts, right now

invited a couple from brazil, who will join our team, but there are clearly not enough soloists, well, this probably explains why you are so reluctant to let go, whether on tour or for contracts as an artist? "" you know how to let go, we 8 years, we train an artist for state money, the artist comes for 2-3 years, he gets some money, we continue to work with him, improve it, give him the repertoire that he will need, so he immediately looks for a place where he could earn money outside of ours theater, first this starts with short-term ones...

i was preparing for some new productions of my own, it wasn’t a pause, just a pause. “this is the most important thing in life,

sometimes, it’s probably marie, well, marina, fortunately , works for us, and evan, captain, he has a french passport, he left and works at the marininsky theater at the invitation of the marinsky theater, we talked about that the spartak ballet is the most toured today, but i would like to.” show you again valentin nikolaevich, a joyful person. we have a short video of your premiere on the screen. spartak in moscow. i haven't seen these shots. this tear, valentin nikolaevich, is amazing. remember this moment, why you? you cried with joy, these were probably tears,

now can something move you to tears? maybe, of course, i’m a living person, very vulnerable, well, well, what moments, from the last thing you can remember, that i ’m crying, yes, what could this not happen, this is one such tear, this is a tear maybe of happiness or why, and it’s very difficult for me to make you cry, well, actually, i remembered that i cried just recently, at the coffin of lyudmila brzhizovskaya, this happened, we recently lost a very big loss, i am, you know, very soft with women, but in general i am a very strong strong person, yes, well, you can feel it, you can feel it, your wife explains it with your horoscope, says that you scorpio, so you eat not only everyone around you, but also yourself, is there such a thing? well, i don’t know, i don’t know

, i’m happy that you are engaged in this profession, which is very necessary, this is great happiness for me, can you personally be called a keeper of the traditions of the foundations, to a large extent, yes, probably yes, it’s probably elizarev - this is a whole era in the life of the theater, nikolaida once said in this anniversary film that the stage ... then not only did you love the stage, but it accepted you, that is, the place accepted you, so you have such a long romance with this scene, don’t you agree? well, this is the truth, it ’s clear that yes, you need to fight for love, i’m probably happy that the fight for art, this is... there is a love for the theater, i

dedicated my whole life to this. valentin nikolaevich, what to do, you say, now the state finances the theater by 60%, everything else is a kind of commercial component, but the theater itself must earn this amount, couldn’t this affect the repertoire for the worse, i’m very afraid that this will be the case, so we especially now must try to produce high-quality performances, here. this should all be there, high-quality art performances, high-quality productions, high-quality performance of music, in general our level must increase, so that a queue will be created at the ticket office, and now we will be interrupted for a long time, after short pause, let's return to this studio again, for now subscribe to our telegram channel, that's what it's called, say don't... be silent, look for all our episodes on the youtube channel belarus 1.

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people's artist of the ussr, bssr, laureate of the state prize of belarus, as well as artistic director of the bolshoi theater of belarus, valentin. in the theater the main talent should be the talent of the creators of the performances there, conductors, directors, choreographers, and artists, this should be a dictatorship of talent, probably the theater is a sacred place, just like

a church, prayed for by art, it’s not for nothing that the public comes to the theater, she comes for... to become better, so artists must make every effort to do this, that’s what they need treat the artists seriously, the artists must treat the audience very seriously, this is the silence that is born when something very significant happens between the stage and the audience. but the beating of hearts, empathy, i repeat the word catharsis , everyone should leave the theater, having experienced, fallen in love with an actor, experienced a drama or tragedy or comedy, but

art must penetrate the human soul, that’s what the theater exists for, it doesn’t upset you, what? before going to the big theater, in general, going to the opera, or to the ballet , was perceived by people as a holiday, and the audience dressed appropriately in evening attire, that is, everyone was very solemn, but now you can often see jeans, a sweater through one person, it’s a different time, i’ve even seen people come to short pants and so on, well, you can’t kick a person out, although there should be a dress code for the theater, we are talking about democracy, but that too... as long as it should be within the framework, there are places where you need to dress, so, but there are, well places to visit freely, and what do you expect from modern? the viewer, so that their expectations are not deceived, do you support the creative freedom of the team, ballet corpses, well, i

generally support dictatorships in art, the dictatorship of talent, you said, the dictatorship of talent, the dictatorship of the individual, the creator, without this nothing will happen, here is confusion, vacillation, democracy, everyone puts a very different meaning into this word, everything should be subordinated to the creation of the final product, and the more talented this product is, the easier it is for the theater to show it, but talents i wish, talents can be very capricious, it is very difficult to drive them into some kind of framework, what kind of dictatorship is then possible, you need to be able to discipline yourself, and you know... how many talented people have passed in my memory, a talented little girl with amazing

data, with amazing, so to speak, well, parents are very sick , heredity is very important, like mom, dad, with good training, but without a head, without a king in his head, he will never make a career, there are those who are less gifted, but who have a lot take their perseverance, work, here, dedication, so, those who want to slip into the profession like this at the expense of natural data will never succeed, here you need to give a lot, uh, but to really serious work, serious improvement uh, in dance, not endowed with an inner world, individuality, people will never make a career. and you had to part with a talented, but not hardworking person, that is, he was talented, yes, everything was in this life,

you did it with sadness, or sometimes your heart easily bled, that such a person wants to go somewhere else into another profession, there is simply no way to stop him, well , he decided not to do anything with him, and on your initiative you refused someone, i practically don’t even remember who i refused. but they give so much, they often receive very unpleasant things, illnesses, injuries, dancing

on pointe shoes - these are worn out feet until they bleed, that’s what they don’t see behind the external lightness, beauty, what effort it costs, fox nikolaevich, you have sister architect, we know, but how do you know everything, read? you come from music, you always told us today in your productions, and literature, it i know that you are inspired by music, you matter to you, of course, of course, i read a lot, so it seems to me that the more i read , the more i don’t know, the more questions i ask myself, i, frankly speaking, should...

everything from the period of the principality of polotsk. and after you , yuri stroyan also staged ballets on a belarusian theme. he was a performer for a long time until he came to that age and was no longer a ballet performer of my ballets. women are very we loved dancing with him, he has sensitive hands, a very, very good partner, which is very important in the theater. a good flight partner

is one who is attentive to? a partner or not, who feels a partner , in whom it is comfortable to dance in his arms, that’s the first one, with whom you can create a single duet, a single traffic rules, common roles, that’s who is close mentally and so on, it’s not for nothing that sometimes couples are like this couples in the ballet break up, the performers, it was a very good duet, bezhezov’s troyan, is it in ours now? v in the theater there are such organic couples, there are, there are, now there is a very good new couple, this is hitogo, white-tailed, just a wonderful couple, and parts of your life with your grandchildren, what kind of grandfather you are, grandfather, i love them madly, here they are, they are probably somewhat similar to me, their appearance is not very good, but in their actions they

are so real. men, everyone is studying, uh, two are in school, one is in kindergarten . are there any significant projects that you would like to talk about? well, it will be a significant project for me; it’s my first time in in my life i will stage a ballet about cinderella. here. i hope that i will succeed. in any case, uh, i’ve already composed a play in my head. now all that remains is to pass it on to the artists. cinderella is a fairy tale within a fairy tale, and it’s also about hope. and in general, such fairy tales are very wise, you know, both russian and belarusian and french, which i will now do, there is a lot of subtext in them, this is how to become a princess from cinderella, come in the spring.

valentin nikolaevich, thank you very much for taking the time to come and tell us. us and not only the front part of the theater, but about the problems of this institution in which you have been working as artistic director for many years, and we are sure that your heart ache for it to have only the best, because as you once told me personally, ballet is the most convertible art form in our country, and it remains so to this day. tatyana shcherbina, victoria popova, we say goodbye to you for today, goodbye, goodbye. here's a happy new year of happiness, health, prosperity to every belarusian family, we are artists, we love, come to us, we will share with the most...