The operatic Golden Masks split: while McVicar's Screw won for the best production overall, a staging of Mozart's CosÐ fan tutte at Moscow's Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre took honors for best director (Alexander Titel), best conductor (Volf Gorelik) and best designer (Vladimir Arefiev). Soprano Tatiana Pechnikova took the operatic Best Actress award for her portrayal of Bellini's Norma at Moscow's Novaya Opera, while baritone Florian Boesch won Best Actor for his Papageno in the Bolshoi's Magic Flute.
A Cinderella from the Opera and Ballet Theater of Novosibirsk received the Best Ballet prize, but no production award was given at all in the contemporary dance category. The Bolshoi Ballet won best choreographer for The Card Game, while Best Actor and Actress honors in the dance category went to the Mariinsky.
A complete list of Golden Mask winners in the opera and dance categories is below. For more information about the festival and its awards, visit www.goldenmask.ru.
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Opera - Best Production
- The Turn of the Screw
Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
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Opera - Best Conductor
- Volf Gorelik
CosÐ fan tutte, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, Moscow
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Opera - Best Director
- Alexander Titel
CosÐ fan tutte, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, Moscow
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Opera - Best Actress
- Tatiana Pechnikova
Norma - Norma, Novaya Opera, Moscow
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Opera - Best Actor
- Florian Boesch
Papageno - The Magic Flute, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
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Opera/Musical Theater - Best Designer
- Vladimir Arefiev
CosÐ fan tutte, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre, Moscow
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Ballet - Best Production
- Cinderella
Opera and Ballet Theatre, Novosibirsk
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Contemporary Dance - Best Production
- prize not awarded
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Ballet/Contemporary Dance - Best Balletmaster/Best Choreographer
- Alexei Ratmansky
The Card Game, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
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Ballet/Contemporary Dance - Best Actress
- Yevgenia Obraztsova
Undine - Undine, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
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Ballet/Contemporary Dance - Best Actor
- Andrei Ivanov
Akakiy Akakievich - The Overcoat, Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg