A Round table

Opera Festival: Traditions and Innovations

A Round table

25 May 2011, a round table entitled Opera Festival: Traditions and Innovations was held at the Moscow State Integrated Museum-Reserve.

It was focused on the Opera Empire festival, the first open air opera festival in Russia, held by in the museum since 2009. The following guests took part in the round table session:

? Felix Korobov, chief conductor of Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre;

? Prof. Vsevolod Zaderatsky, professor of the Moscow State P.I.Tchaikovsky Conservatory;

? Dr Alexander Savchenko, financial and economic counsellor at the European Union, author of the Concept of strategic development of Moscow till 2025;

? Dmitry Orlikov, General Director of the Orion Art multimedia company;

? Igor Kolobov-Teslya, Deputy Director of the New Opera theatre of Moscow;

? Marina Brokanova, musical journalist, member of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation advisory council.

The basic issues discussed were: development of opera festival traditions in Moscow, possibilities of its use in cultural and tourist activity of our city, promotion and active use of cultural heritage based on the present social and cultural policy, export of high standards from cultural field into other activity fields.

The discussion participants marked that thanks to innovations in the maintenance and organization process, the Opera Empire festival received the deserved recognition among visitors, won the highest professional reputation in the European cultural community, and made classical music available to the mass listener.

Future directions and ways of the festival development made another issues of the round table.