around the clock they are behind the triumph is the sound of the bolshoi's director general and certainly one of the best theater of the. world he is my guests on he will show up. at home or probably the world's best ballet theater was built in the eighteenth century but by the turn of this century the main building urgently needed rain of asian and better management that's when one of russia's most experienced fundraisers on exxon akim into fix the situation he became the bolshoi's director general and within two years brought in millions of dollars in donations from the business community and improved the it is operation a decade of hard work paid off in two thousand and eleven as legendary kompany was back in its historical stage again.

hello mr external welcome to the show was read on or enjoyed to have you with us today thank you you were awarded the water of the mariel detail in a republic my congratulations as a jury yes as well i don't know what your merits are with regard to utility perhaps you could tell us later but your biggest mirrored with us as far as you know is concerned he's definitely lost carla the future used to tour in our country back in the days of the soviet union and now they have been coming here for two straight years. actually it's more than two the relationship between these two will tame state is has a long history which goes back to nine hundred sixty full view of the world. but in the twenty first century this relationship became even more intense in that we have signed agreements between the theater is a long term that is to cooperation. go through which the as a result of the pit bull show has recently visited less color three times with

a ballet in opera and a symphony orchestra looks that's a good it was we closed the season with. the so what we have today is a return visit. by the way is the first foreign company in the bolshoi after the animation school board shorts that he cut cut so you're doing what you see both in your building and in your stage eleven. conductor daniel barenboim was the first to perform on the vulture stage last november with the symphony program with their knees requiem said the acoustic was fantastic. with. and then became again with an opera and this time said there are probably three theatres in the world to do with this level of acoustics with the vienna offer one vienna opera the bolshoi theatre. the. so

a common garden has room for improvement. i didn't mention it i want this is not my opinion this is what daniel barenboim said i guess acoustics is like they want you can truly measure it with an instrument yes you can there are measurement techniques there are so many but to you what the conductor says is more important than the instrument definitely there is a lot of factors that come into play you are example you need the right balance between the sounds produced on the stage and the sounds of the orchestra. so. actually we worked very hard to reproduce the almost perfect acoustics they both used to have back in the nineteenth century. i like to tell you a funny story that you can then pass on to your colleagues and i have a friend who is crazy about sound like he buys all kinds of expensive sound systems from japan you know to make sound equipment by hand. i see him on the street the other day so i ask him what have you been he says and the bolshoi. and he goes well

how is that terrible lows not terrible but the total her morning distortion used perfect. you gave him credit that's going to do. what other companies besides in this column do you plan to bring over the public. with. me in addition to running our own productions i mean with that it is our mission in the bolshoi what we believe to invite the world's top musicians to. who is next year we are expecting the vienna opera studio with three titles. we'll also have a opera. gardens ballet. there to a national opera. at these kind of sides next year. one hundred is over igor stravinsky's rite of spring so will host a. companies from around the world coming. to right to spring.

will have seen about. the shimmery. bill a company of the finnish national opera about indian. british choreographer wayne mcgregor with a version of the rite of spring specifically for the bolshoi to. be so it will also have a festival by lee at the. i couldn't see after the reopening of the bolshoi last year so much marred the work done others criticised it but everybody agreed that the theatre had been basically rebuilt from scratch by no i mean it's still the same building obviously but those changes are massive after all it took you six years going to cause so what do you think now how did the first season go are you happy or are there are some problems remaining. i am very happy first of all we were able to preserve the historic building we couldn't make it bigger indeed if

you didn't add anything on top or in the right or in the left it was it stands in the middle of a book surrounded by other buildings which you went deeper and i saw it with my own eyes you made it deeper and yet it's some space on the backside some of the fellas to tears anyway we preserved the building's original size which it really took a lot of effort considering that it's located in the heart of the city the with all the pipe works in the ground you have to work around but eventually we were able to double the billings capacity to make spending the underground parts. and we've also installed the latest but i see to the theatrical equipment. the lighting system the computers they're all top notch of course technology advances all the time so if another year sets of innovation say next year it will be mean still even better equipment ok just don't do it again we won't be able to live without the ball so for another six years i mean our generation. happy with what we have i think we're

good for about a hundred years as far as the building is concerned. with mint can be upgraded without shutting down the theater it's good values of the bolshoi theatre the heart and soul of russian oprah and ballet was closed for a six year rather they should just think about it last year at red opened and the public finally came to the show the public that had been starved for so long spotless even the demure that has more. the bolshoi theatre closed its doors in two thousand and five or six years the sound of music was replaced by the noise of trolls and hammers before that the legendary bolshoi survived without major for additional one hundred fifty years as soon as work began the situation appeared worse than expected with foundations and will likely be reduced to dust the theaters reopening was in the show is scheduled for two thousand and eight but had

to be postponed several times and media covered the detective like story of the reconstruction with accusations of involvement and vesta geishas by russian persecutors and eventual supervision of the renovation work by the president's office the bolshoi's highly anticipated reopening eventually to place in the job or two thousand and eleven the wealthy under beautiful got their invitation from the crown when they were the first to see how the seven hundred million dollars renovation brought back the spirit of czarist russia grandaunt to the ball shortly but that doesn't mean everything remained archaic the bolshoi now boasts a brand new underground stage which can move up and down the reopening of russia's main theater didn't go. with reports of open in the night she gets a landing in the hands of towns even though now a year after the bullshit was reborn the ticket craze has subsided and matches against towns have been taken getting to the. it's still a bit of

a challenge. complained the high prices i demanded to buy tickets online and touts. this. mr santa we just had the show he gets brought up on this record and it's true but when the bolshoi reopened it was absolutely impossible to get a ticket anywhere now year later there are still problems with tickets is there anything you can do to make the theatre more accessible to people that was the. first let's take an unbiased look at the problem with what you call a craze in this report this took place because people had been waiting for six years for the theater to reopen because it was even there and everyone wanted to see the season's premiere secondly we only have seven hundred seats our capacity is limited that's a lot fewer than in a stadium indeed but you went to school but we do work hard and have a lot of the foreman says these days but even know that we have two stages which

include in this small a new one. while the old one was under innovations still won't be enough room for everyone. and then again there are many people interested in watching it before going in just taking a look at how beautiful they really hated theater is theory itself so we came up with an idea of tours around the theatre which take place some three to five times a day but each to our theater tours are certainly sounds reasonable sure he will but that's one way we've been trying to tone down this craze sort of go on a tour of the ball show and then watch the perform some t.v. and you still get the experience especially know that we broadcast our performances in movie theaters around the world in russia online. i mean live yes that's a way for us to expand our audience. all right now address another important you share. a lot of people keep wondering if you're going to reduce the ticket price.

still quite high. he sold the rest of us are you going to do something about the mortgage there's a situation we're business comes first beautiful but your typical in business comes first indeed. to reduce ticket prices is that offering them a little look at prices the touts will buy them all up if we put the price above the market the auditorium will only be half full so it is a balancing act for thier work with us secondly there were about five hundred tickets that we sell because little is one hundred roubles each that's both opera and ballet performances as are other fordable isn't it prestigious to the us is three dollars song. but so a few minutes before starts if you doesn't tickets spectators and students so you have special offers certainly you can come and buy a ticket four hundred roubles and that to me it sounded bolshoi's director general spotlight will be back in a moment or so after we take a break so stay. wealthy

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welcome back to spotlight. and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is on the truly exciting left there are . the bolshoi. through that. he sure mr exxon here's another thing i'd like to discuss with you when the bolshoi reopened we had an interview with the new star of the company david hold bird hold it would be in with

you for your now you may have regarded your decision to appoint an american as premier dancer is the final nail in the coffin of the russian bully how can the principal dancer of the bolshoi belly nod be a russian. what nonsense. the nationality of the poor but the artistic abilities of a dancer that met. those that were in the way it wasn't like that in older times those were the days of the iron curtain if you remember. i sure do but that would be the whole good you know david holder is the perfect prince for the classical repaired. for the bolshoi who does nothing wrong about him dancing for the nation's best theatre besides the same as with oprah there are no buddhas in the world of ballet today. as a horrible and many others. are in for in the it is. but if there is oprah.

it's a common practice but i'm sure david has fitted well with the company i've spoken to him and he's an incredibly nice guy and very upbeat i doesn't have the beer you know the star. beams with joy part of the bolshoi but what about do you want to use people who don't know him personally going to depreciate. even when the russians are conservative and they'd like the bullshit to stay authentic no no that's not true they don't want the bolshoi to remain unchanged he wanted to feature the cream of the crop that's why david's been received ecstatically which is to be king of his personality was indeed a good natured fellow which is great for the atmosphere within the company people see him and realize that you can actually maintain a friend. relationship was that you may choose not to but why would you. you know many people can period the american frame your dancer in the bolshoi for employers

hard by russian football clubs i mean there are so many stars abroad to do. but what about young homegrown dancers performing at the bolshoi when you made me feel they will never get the lead roles because foreigners have already taken their place. it would be wrong to say that it's a place has been taken because. then three to five times a month with this there will be as for david ever since he's been with us been doing just. that he's been. through i mean you also continues dancing in the u.s. right yes he has kept his job at the theater as well as for dances. you see it's not about taking somebody's place it's about who can repeat. in the best possible way. doesn't really care about nationality by the way.

the featured. downside of the bolshoi theater seasons in london and paris because the title of the so this is not the first time we devise if. i remember it in the times of the our encouragement there was a popular song in russia that one actually but in. the entire planet so knowledge you have bought an american star do you still think that russian bully of the world . absolutely is that i'm absolutely sure of that with one reservation only it's the classical russian ballet that is the best and they will you know that contemporary by the way. and this is where you have peons who may have asked us. because you open the scope of this debate recently we have seen many new talented creative. people who said that it refers to contemporary but they only know the

classics so when they would ask do you think we should try to beat them at their own game should we instead stick to classical ballet. little. thing to preserve the cool or russian ballet that is the classics. we should never give up and that he was a well known western choreographer and one said the bolshoi should be sponsored simply because it preserves the classics. so i can't say we're trying to beat them at their own game when you. need to keep evolving low but in there have been many new contemporary belief productions. but russians traditionally more interested in classical ballet we could but we also need to move on you are right this is true of boy. but lately the bolshoi has been under fire over experiments with your contemporary operate a lab is headed by us here at our first thirty year old director challengers in every possible stereotype of. people who have seen some of the works he staged but

i can hardly believe it was a whole show in performance. what's the idea behind it all. the contesting you waters. to absolutely i have said in many occasions over the divorce you theatre is not a museum are open to novelty that will continue looking for that novelty and we have a lot of opportunities for that unlike many other theaters with which we have a new stage it's a smaller one with one hundred seats which has become the venue for the boldest and most uninhibited experiments. but this is not why people criticize me because a criticism is about it would ng experience on the main historical stage of the new one it was. you know the main. stage is traditionally famous large scale classically foreman says. but i have to

confess that shift on not a frequent visitor at the bolshoi but when i go there. i can't help admiring the old ladies because if the theatre were their home there are so much alike even where the same nostalgic perfume or. interest in the same way to you. so these through connoisseurs of the yard those who see he's not in he's best wars tonight are they many and yes that is. declining in numbers by the day many quits while the theatre was under reconstruction. no that young anymore so we had to take. especially know that we have two stages kind of that here at the beginning of the show i said you were one of the most successful theater managers in contemporary russia. and it's true. when you came to bolshoi it was in a very poor see you know with the bizarrely so and though you were reforms

a lot of controversy still you have been able to change a lot of what was your recipe for success. it's really difficult to talk about our own records. and also we need to put the meninges into context those were the travel times of the one nine hundred ninety s. when there was no money or lows simply nothing here that i took of the theater in the year two thousand and one to be when the country was getting back on track to keep the. my job was to have the construction of the new stage completed the there and preserve the company and then to restore the main stage open it's been there with the company. both preserved. and we did that. the second thing that we did was setting up a board of trustees and the bush ruthie to foundation which has been providing significant support to the theatre group of oh is this foundation just

a social to the organization or user trillium money reserve and like the bank it does raise money well it's not a bank of course no trustees endos sponsors release funds it with a foundation who taps into it when it does much is necessary you just go the rest of the time that money is it work. talking of the theaters budget which port comes from the state and which from private sponsors. well the sponsors share is know that lurch. of the word stinks to this unit or has more freedom just been these facile louis thanks to these funds. can afford certain things which state funded organisations usually can't afford. like other public sector institutions who are the financial discipline is very tight you have some kind of freedom. it's a creative business always come up with new ideas and then drop them in

a bit of thought so these taunts give you more room for maneuver exactly. with new ideas. it's interesting that you were born in st petersburg you grew up and went to school there you go to college degree there right at school with you worked there for some time but then you moved to moscow how come we're all aware of the longstanding rivalry between moscow and st petersburg as far as culture is concerned it maybe not so tense another areas but something is work would never give up its title of the cultural capital would you agree that by moving to moscow you sort of betrayed this tradition well first of all there was no betrayal of course before i moved to moscow i had spent twenty years squeaking for the dust and will go on with the school arguably one of the most famous theaters in st petersburg. i just moved from one bowl truth either. well to another and you can i think it's really more about and it is a competition rather than a confrontation between the artistic communities of moscow and st petersburg up she she was

a related parties but the art of thought and act is in direct is from st petersburg and moscow act as if it is for more scope of work in st petersburg we all share a common cause future to. every seat are unique in its own way of course the would do the marine ski is not like the bolshoi each of them do it is special and it would be wrong to bring them down to standard level he will love them there thank you very much for coming to our show unfortunately we're out of time for this edition that's life being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was about the leaks on the good old days actually mulch and that's it for now for all of us here spotlight will do the victims a list they were to. myself.

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