An operetta at a drama theater? This is impossible,” you will say, and you will be completely… wrong. Anything is possible if you really want to. Moreover, the production of “Silva” was dreamed of in the middle of the last century by the head of Ermolovtsev, the great director Andrei Mikhailovich Lobanov. And “dreams must come true!” as our artistic director Oleg Menshikov likes to say.
Staging an operetta on the stage of a drama theater with dramatic artists and professional musicians is a unique experience of collaboration between different types of art. Trying to look at the love story of Silva and Edwin through the eyes of a modern person is a bold and exciting task, which is being undertaken by a brilliant production team, which Oleg Menshikov invited.
There are a huge number of different versions, differing in both the libretto and the staging elements, but the main thing in them is always the same — the great music of Imre Kalman.
