# Helikon Opera

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{{Short description|Russian opera company based in Moscow}}
thumb|270px|right|The {{Interlanguage link|Усадьба Шаховских-Глебовых-Стрешневых|lt=Shakhovsky-Glebov-Streshnev Estate|ru}} where the Helikon Opera is based
'''Helikon Opera''' is a Russian opera company based in [Moscow](/source/Moscow), specializing in unconventional productions.<ref>[CBS News](/source/CBS_News).[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russias-love-of-opera/ "Russia's Love Of Opera"] 17 March 1999.</ref><ref>Charlton, Angela. [https://books.google.com/books?id=yTAec0qvNkoC&dq=Helikon+opera&pg=PA183 ''Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg'']. Frommer's (2010) p. 183. {{ISBN|0-470-53763-9}}</ref> Their main performing base is the 250 seat [Mayakovsky Theater](/source/Mayakovsky_Theater), the former ballroom in the palace of the Shakhovskoi-Glebov-Streshneva family who were patrons of the arts in 19th century Moscow. The company was founded by [Dmitry Bertman](/source/Dmitry_Bertman) and gave its first performance, [Stravinsky](/source/Stravinsky)'s  ''[Mavra](/source/Mavra)'', on April 10, 1990.

Helikon Opera gives 200 performances a year, primarily in Moscow but also abroad, performing in the UK for the first time in 1997. The company's repertoire includes both mainstream works and rarely performed operas and [chamber opera](/source/chamber_opera)s. In the past they have staged [Fleishman](/source/Veniamin_Fleishman)'s ''[Rothschild's Violin](/source/Rothschild's_Violin)'', [Hindemith](/source/Hindemith)'s ''[Hin und zurück](/source/Hin_und_zur%C3%BCck)'' and [Prokofiev](/source/Prokofiev)'s ''[Maddalena](/source/Maddalena_(opera))'' and were the first company to revive [Tchaikovsky](/source/Tchaikovsky)'s ''[Undine](/source/Undina_(Tchaikovsky))'' (1994) and to stage  Prokofiev's ''[The Ugly Duckling](/source/The_Ugly_Duckling_(Prokofiev))'' (1992).<ref>Stolyarenko, Lyudmila. [https://books.google.com/books?id=iYd1AAAAIAAJ&q=Helikon+opera "Rebels with a cause"]. ''[Opera](/source/Opera_(British_magazine))'',  Volume 48, Issues 7-12 (1997) pp. 1170-1171</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.helikon.ru/ Helikon Opera official website] 
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120315175037/http://www.helikon.ru/tree/?lang=eng&id=1 Helikon Opera official website] (English version)

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Category:Russian opera companies
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Category:Opera houses in Russia
Category:1990 establishments in Russia

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