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02/03/2018. To the international Kalevala Day
February 28, 2018:
The National Library of Karelia gathered together gathered admirers and friends of the Karelo-Finnish epic poem Kalevala.
In Russia Year 2018 is dedicated to the art of ballet dance. Therefore, the program Kalevala on the Theatrical Stage presented the main performances based on the epic poem and made by the leading theatrical and folk groups of Petrozavodsk, besides the stories from the newsreel "Soviet Karelia" and fragments from performances were shown.
Natalia Galtsina, Candidate of Art History, ballet critic, Honored Artist of Russia and Karelia, shared her memories of those who created the legendary ballet Sampo, which is a part of the golden fund of Karelian art. In 1986, she was awarded the honorary title of Laureate of the State Prize of Russia named after M. I. Glinka for creating bright images of the ballet Sampo.
The part of the program was the music of Kalevala. A unique North Karelian rune On the Birth of the Wind was performed and accompanied by a kantele by a teacher of the Petrozavodsk A. K. Glazunov State Conservatory Igor Solovyov. Musician Yevgeny Shokhov played songs based on the epic poem and created by him in the creative tandem with the People's Writer of Karelia Armas Mishin. Besides illustrations made by the Kalevala artist Vladimir Lukkonen were shown during the performance.
The representatives of national societies of Petrozavodsk read runes of Kalevala epic poem in Georgian, Ukrainian, Greek and Mari languages.
The program was created with the support of the Administration of the Petrozavodsk City District, the National Archive of the Republic of Karelia, the Musical Theater of the Republic of Karelia, the National Theater of the Republic of Karelia and the Puppet Theater of the Republic of Karelia.
