MOSCOW, October 27. / TASS /. The Artist charitable foundation will celebrate its 10th anniversary on Saturday with a Love Confession concert on the stage of the Helikon-Opera Moscow musical theater. This was reported in the press service of the fund.
“Once my mother called me and said:“ If you don’t help, I just won’t talk to you. ”It was about Georgy Mikhailovich Vitsin. This began. in which people are completely unprotected, both stars and people who have been in the orchestra for 50 years, "the press service of the founder of the fund, artistic director of the Theater of Nations, Yevgeny Mironov, said.
Three generations of the family of People's Artist of the USSR, violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet will take part in the festive concert: his daughter, pianist Ksenia Bashmet and grandson, violinist Grant Bashmet, will take the stage together with the maestro. Opera diva Khibla Gerzmava will perform one of her favorite arias, clown Vyacheslav Polunin will perform with the show. The foundation will be congratulated by actresses Alla Demidova, Chulpan Khamatova, Inna Churikova, Maria Alexanandra Chudakova, Nadezhda Pavlova, head of the Satyricon Theater Konstantin Raikin, Bolshoi Theater premier Vladislav Lantratov, ballerina Diana Vishneva, as well as the founders of the Artist Maria Mironova, Igor Vernik and Leonid Yarmolnik ...
As the organizers explained, the participants of the evening, by their own example of helping senior colleagues, want to draw public attention to the problems of older people.
"Usually, when people get sick, I help, especially those from our workshop. And I am proud of the Artist Foundation. We have an amazing country: we admire, applaud and love the artists so much when they are acting, and the artists who are getting old and leave the profession, often there is no livelihood, no funds for treatment, nothing, "said Leonid Yarmolnik.
On Saturday, there will also be a presentation of the annual Prize of the Artist Foundation "Recognition" for many years of contribution to the development of the country's culture. The professional experience of its laureates exceeds 40 years, all of them still serve in the theater or are engaged in teaching. Vera Vasilyeva, Yuri Yakovlev, Leonid Kuravlev, Nikolai Dupak, Iza Vysotskaya, Vadim Gaevsky and other masters of art are already the winners of the award.
About the fund
The Artist Foundation was established in 2008 by People's Artists of Russia Yevgeny Mironov and Igor Vernik, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Maria Mironova, theater and film actor Leonid Yarmolnik, producer Natalya Shaginyan-Nidem.
Over the 10 years of its activity, the foundation has provided assistance to more than 2.5 thousand cultural and art workers of the older generation from 65 cities of Russia, the press service reported. Among those who managed to help in different years are the popularly beloved artists Lev Durov, Lyudmila Ivanova, Tamara Miansarova, Nikolai Karachentsov, Vladimir Etush, Georgy Danelia, Margarita Terekhova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Yuri Yakovlev and little-known workers of the theater workshop, who all their lives worked for the benefit of national culture.
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