Octopus Garden in Perm, or how to fall in love with a child in an opera

PERMIAN. The world premiere of the children’s opera "The Octopus Garden" took place at the Opera and Ballet Theater.

Love for Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky is not inherited, like a title or blood type. The need to listen to classics is formed from birth, if parents are happy to do it themselves, and not from time to time. If you buy a violin, piano or oboe, not for your own ambitions, but in the interests of the child and his future. If the words symphony, overture, suite do not seem to him senseless abracadabra and cause positive emotions. If the world of classical music opens up for him gradually: through a game, a fairy tale, an exciting adventure. From understandable and accessible to more complex.

Directors, stage designers Maria Litvinova and Vyacheslav Ignatov have been creating magical performances for children since the early 2000s. In his own theater "Trickster", on the stages of the theater "Practice", Obraztsova, Natalia Sats, "S.AD ". Enlightening, stimulating the imagination to active work, completely refuting the established myths. Involving young viewers in the co-creation process, giving vivid emotions during an exciting adventure called opera.

The previous production of Ignatov and Litvinova for the Tchaikovsky Perm Theater - the opera "Journey to the Country of Jambles" based on the works of Edward Lear - was awarded a special prize of the Golden Mask festival in 2016. The interactive presentation format appealed to everyone, regardless of age.

The collaboration of the family duet with the Perm Opera continued. On November 18 and 19, the world premiere of the play “Octopus Garden” took place. The authors of the idea - Catherine and Peter Pospelov - and the directors did not depart from the principle of "Enlightenment through entertainment." On the stage and in the hall there is a riot of colors, art objects that excite imagination, exotic animals, plants, mushrooms, dolls. Mahler’s "Sermons of Anthony of Padua to Fishes," Groundhog "by Beethoven," Flight of the Bumblebee "by Rimsky-Korsakov," The Cat Duet "by Joakino Rossini," Song of the Flea "by Mussorgsky," Trout "by Schubert are harmoniously interwoven into this extravaganza. Sounds in the play and Octopus’s Garden - Ringo Starr’s song from the famous Beatles Abbey Road album, which gave the idea of the name to the whole production.

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