uh, valentina elizarieva, after which your career at the bolshoi theater actually began, it was not suggestedo think. no one suggested starting something tomorrow i was offered to stage a short time, so that i would offer several performances for staging and the theater would decide what the theater needs today. your first performance at the big theater has become. faust and it was your idea? why did you choose this piece to stage? well, this was just one of my proposals. and you chose him just as the artistic director of the proposal came from you. yes, several performances were offered. among them, of course, was faust; you already had some the director's decision until the moment they told me it was going to be faust in the first place. this is , uh, a grand full-length lyrical french opera. she is huge. she goes 3 1/2 hours. i mean, it's serious music . this is absolute pop. in my opinion. that is, this is so much popular music that, uh, a person who did not even have any idea, even the slightest idea, he will come to the opera house and hear melodies familiar to him, that is, uh, this is

e valentina elizarieva, after which your career at the bolshoi theater actually began, it was not askedthink, no one offered to start staging something tomorrow, i was offered a short time so that i would offer several performances for staging and the theater would decide what the theater needed today. your first performance at a large theater was. faust and it was your idea? why did you choose this piece to stage? well, that's exactly what it was. that was one of my suggestions. and you chose him just the artistic director, but the proposal came from you. yes, several performances were offered. faust was definitely among them. you already had some kind of directorial decision until the moment they told me that it would be faust in the first place, this is, uh, a grand full-length lyrical french opera. she is huge. she goes 3 1/2 hours. i mean, it's serious music. this is absolute pop. in my opinion. that is, this is such popular music that a person who did not even have any idea about opera, even the slightest idea, he will come to the opera house and hear melodies familiar to himself,