MINISTER OF CULTURE OF FRANCE FRANCOISE NYSSEN VISITED ALEXANDRINSKY THEATRE’S NEW STAGE
On May 25 the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre hosted a meeting of Francoise Nyssen (Minister of Culture of France) and Valery Fokin (Artistic Director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre). Mme Nyssen is on official visit to St. Petersburg as a member of French Republic’s delegation headed by the President of the French Republic M. Emmanuel Macron.
Mme Nyssen met composers and musicians, who took part in the concluding concert of the Fifths New Music Festival reMusik.org, familiarized herself with activities of the New Stage Media Centre and ‘New Media Laboratory’. The Minister was accompanied by M. Olivier Guillaume (Counselor for Cooperation and Culture to the Embassy of France in Russia) and by Director of the French Institute in St. Petersburg M. Alain Helou.
The French Institute is the New Stage’s longtime partner, which supports numerous events of ‘New Music at the New Stage’ and ‘New Media Laboratory’ programmes, as well as production and staging of Russian-French performance ‘Krum’.