The theatre family of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre celebrated the Artist's Day

The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre celebrated the Artist's Day in a warm, truly family atmosphere. The holiday was established in 2025 and is celebrated on January 17, the birthday of the great stage director K. Stanislavsky. For our theatre, the new professional holiday has become a wonderful opportunity to establish a new theatrical tradition: honouring the Theatre of the Victory veterans in their familiar walls and awarding artists who serve the Novosibirsk stage today.

For the theatre staff and veterans of the stage, the event that brought everyone together on the eve of the festive date in the Great Hall of NOVAT was highly anticipated, so the atmosphere of the evening was particularly uplifting and warm, and the words of congratulations sounded very sincere. There was a place for humour in the program. The founding fathers of the new Russian Theatre, stage directors Vladimir Nemirovich‒Danchenko and Konstantin Stanislavsky, whose images were embodied by students of the Novosibirsk Conservatory, opened the festive evening with a rousing musical number.

The theatre staff was solemnly and cordially congratulated on the Artist's Day by the theatre's leaders, General Director Airat Tukhvatullin and Chief Stage Director Vyacheslav Starodubtsev. Yuri Petukhov, First Deputy Governor of the Novosibirsk Region, and Yuri Zimnyakov, Minister of Culture of the Novosibirsk Region, also addressed warm congratulations to the theatre staff and presented certificates of honour and gratitude from the governor and the government of the Novosibirsk Region to the theatre staff who contributed to the development of theatrical art in Siberia.

At the conclusion of the awards ceremony, NOVAT General Director Airat Tukhvatullin separately thanked the theatre's veterans for their dedicated service to the profession of an artist. His words were met with a standing ovation from the audience.