the postman from longimo. design by zinovy margolin, musical director and conductor clement nanciau. no matter how it's strange, i haven't staged comic operas for a long time, and i've never staged such operas at all, because both the barber of seville and figre's wedding are, after all, comic operas, but still serious dramatic material, a large number of interpretations, secondary plans, nevertheless, and the opera began - it's pure entertainment, it was written as pure entertainment, that's it. it seems to me that the main thing for us was to agree with the production team that we weren't going to spit on eternity, but were making some kind of cheerful, tender, an elegant performance, absolutely for entertainment, and with all, with all respect for french culture, kadan and so on and so forth, it seems to me that this is the direction we tried to work in. the new season at the vakhtangov theatre begins with the premiere performance of anatoly shulyev, pushkin's tales based on the works of alexander sergeev