Governor Zhilkin told Mr Putin about a newly completed music theatre, as well as other cultural projects in Astrakhan. They also reviewed the region’s half-year performance in agriculture and housing construction. Additionally, they focused particular attention on programmes for modernising healthcare and education, emphasising the need to raise school teachers’ pay.
Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:
Vladimir Putin: Good evening.
Alexander Zhilkin: Mr Putin, we’ve just completed the construction of a new music theater. I’d like to show you a photo of it, taken a week and a half ago. (Shows the photo on a tablet computer. Music is playing.) Because of the current heat, we’ve had to put off planting 450 trees till autumn. But we’ve planted some grass, over a total area of 52,600 square metres. We’d like to have a landscape garden on the grounds.
...Governor Zhilkin told Mr Putin about a newly completed music theatre, as well as other cultural projects in Astrakhan. They also reviewed the region’s half-year performance in agriculture and housing construction. Additionally, they focused particular attention on programmes for modernising healthcare and education, emphasising the need to raise school teachers’ pay.
Transcript of the beginning of the meeting:
Vladimir Putin: Good evening.
Alexander Zhilkin: Mr Putin, we’ve just completed the construction of a new music theater. I’d like to show you a photo of it, taken a week and a half ago. (Shows the photo on a tablet computer. Music is playing.) Because of the current heat, we’ve had to put off planting 450 trees till autumn. But we’ve planted some grass, over a total area of 52,600 square metres. We’d like to have a landscape garden on the grounds.
Vladimir Putin: More than 50,000 square metres?
Alexander Zhilkin: Yes, 52,600 square metres.
Vladimir Putin: 52,600?
Alexander Zhilkin: Exactly. It is in the Russian neo-classical style; the architecture is quite elaborate, but it looks very nice. For now, tourists are not allowed in.
Vladimir Putin: The music has ended. Will it also come to an end in the theatre?
Alexander Zhilkin: No, it won't be like that with the theatre.
Vladimir Putin: Good. It’s lovely. Congratulations.
Alexander Zhilkin: Thank you very much for your support.
Best of all, there is a small hotel in the theatre with 29 beds, that can accommodate visiting companies. We’ve spoken with the Bolshoi Theatre, and they have added a tour to their schedule for next year.
Vladimir Putin: Fantastic.
Alexander Zhilkin: We've also got a fully-equipped air-conditioned auditorium to host all kinds of theatrical and musical festivals. The acoustics are excellent; we consulted with [Milan’s] La Scala theatre and Paris’ Grande Opéra. Our own, domestic specialists, from the Mariinsky and the Bolshoi, came to have a look as well. Performers have tested the acoustics as well. The company is already formed, and we have invited Mr Voronin, a participant of many Musical Spring festivals, to take the post of Artistic Director. The ballet company will be led by Konstantin Uralsky. He will begin on September 1. He is currently serving as head of the ballet company at the Chelyabinsk Theatre, but they are hoping to create a ballroom dance school there.
This week, we are planning to hold an opening presentation gala, to pay tribute to the construction team, and to let people know that performances are beginning this coming season. Now we have to get all the sets ready. The new stage is three times as big as the old one. Everything is working out, everyone is happy and tourists are beginning to flow in.
More to be posted soon...
источник новости: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/15980/
