XIII International Platonov Arts Festival was presented at the RUSSIA EXPO
XIII
International Platonov Arts Festival, which has been held in the Voronezh
region since 2011, was presented at the RUSSIA EXPO. Visitors were shown the
best numbers from the program and a theatrical performance for children in the
open air.
Today,
Platonov Festival is one of the best multicultural forums in Russia, said Elena
Ashkova, acting director of the project. According to her, the festival events
are annually attended by about 100,000 spectators from different cities.
"XIII
Platonov Festival will unite more than 20 outstanding collectives from nine
countries - these are Argentina, Mexico, Russia, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan,
Armenia, Indonesia, Ghana. The Russian program will be presented by groups from
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kurgan, Rostov-on-Don, Makhachkala, Kaspiysk and more.
The Platonov Festival audience will see 19 screenings, eight performances,
seven concerts, a festival of street theaters, which will unite 10 groups, 44
sessions of audioplay-promenade based on Andrei Platonov's letters to his
wife," said Elena Ashkova.
In total,
Platonov Festival will involve 10 venues of the city, including the Koltsov
Drama Theater, Opera and Ballet Theater, Voronezh Concert Hall, Voronezh
Chamber Theater, the park of the Oldenburg Palace, the White Well chalk quarry
and other locations, she concluded.
The
presentation of the Festival was attended by Karina Tsaturova, general director
of the Chekhov International Theater Festival, Andrei Ustinov, music critic,
one of the founders and editor-in-chief of the national newspaper Musical
Review, and Natalia Kornienko, literary scholar, head of the Platonov Group at
the Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and
one of the most authoritative researchers of Andrei Platonov's work. They
discussed the Festival's influence on the festival space of the country and its
role in popularization and representation of Andrei Platonov's work.
Platonov
Festival in 2024 is timed to the 125th anniversary of the birth of writer
Andrei Platonov and will start on June 1. Traditionally, the program will
include dramatic, choreographic and puppet performances, as well as concerts of
academic and contemporary music, expositions, a book fair, creative meetings
and open-air events. It is divided into four blocks - "Theater",
"Music", "Expositions" and "Literature". Since
its inception, artists and cultural figures from more than 55 countries have
participated in the festival. Since 2011, it has attracted about half a
million spectators.
