Franco Zeffirelli, Elena Obraztsova, Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Teresa Stratas… Years pass, new stars appear, fashion changes, but these names and performances continue to live in the memory of the audience. The new special project TheatreHD has collected the best, time-tested masterpieces that continue to give viewers theatrical magic today – and the magic of retro.

Teodor Currentzis & musicAeterna

Concerts by the Greco-Russian conductor Theodor Currentzis and his orchestra musicAeterna often resemble a sacred act and performance rather than just brilliant interpretations of music, invariably becoming vivid events in the musical world. On our screens, you can enjoy Theodor Currentzis's concerts featuring the great music of Mozart, Beethoven, and other composers.

Wiener Staatsoper

Today, the Vienna Opera is practically the ideal of an opera house, tickets are sold out months in advance, and the cast of soloists is capable of evoking a sigh of admiration from fans and envy from competitors: Elina Garanca, Asmik Grigoryan, Anna Netrebko, Jonas Kaufmann, Juan Diego Flores, Sonya Yoncheva, Ludovic Tézier – it is difficult to find a world-class star who did not sing in Vienna yesterday or is not going to sing tomorrow. After all, any performance at the Vienna Opera is something that will be talked about throughout the season, and which other theaters will be equal to.

KOMMERSANT: Monumental menagerie

In the tiny, fragile Romanian [Aline Cojocaru]… there's a living embodiment of Laura Wingfield, the touching, insecure lame woman... a shoe with a crooked heel was attached to the pointe of her “working” right foot, leaving the heel of her ballet shoe free, which allowed the ballerina to limp or dance, depending on the situation in the story…

Leonardo Cinquecento

Why can Leonardo's Codices be considered a fulfilled prophecy about the technological innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries? Who and why buys Leonardo's works to this day? Is it possible to distinguish the myths about his life and work from reality?

"Marcel Duchamp is a grand troll!"

Public talk by NIKOLAY RYNDIN (Art Obstrel) with the audience at the film screening. Why read artists' memoirs? What do Malevich and Duchamp have in common? How did Duchamp earn his living? What is the essence of the ready-made?

Bruegel? Hogsmeade?... Bregenz!

We will see the devil riding a skeleton horse, a fire-breathing dragon, mermaids, swamp evil spirits; wolves howl, the clock spins backwards, and the full moon is about to fall to the ground. "Don't go into the Forbidden Forest, especially at night!" Swamp lights flicker, a magic circle blazes right in the water, a bell tower half-submerged in the quagmire begins to live its own life...

Adult life of a young man

A warm, lamp-like, well-old-fashioned portrait, where the classics are played by our great contemporary. From country to country; from the syncopated tap-dancing America of wild night lights - to Moscow, illuminated by the stars of the Kremlin towers. From childhood to gray hairs; Tsyganov plays Obraztsov as an eternal boy who desperately wanted to learn to whistle, joked with Lenin and Nemirovich-Danchenko, and forever remained the Seryozha who played with the glove doll...

Arena di Verona

Horses, donkeys, carriages, ceremonial processions - the Arena di Verona is created for epic spectacles. The great Franco Zeffirelli considered it the ideal stage for his monumental, colorful and breathtaking productions. These are exactly the ones presented in our collection for the big screen.

Solve the mysteries of the planet's most important surrealist

A fascinating story-trip by Tatyana Pigaryova .at the screening of the film "Salvador Dali: In Search of Immortality": Dali’s famous mustache, his childhood memories and relationship with Gala, Vermeer’s “The Lacemaker”, Luis Buñuel, the Cap de Creus rocks, a girl with a skipping rope and much more.

THE ART NEWSPAPER RUSSIA: Memories of Goya as a portrait of the 20th century culture

An intelligent man in a coat rides on a train and sings an old folk song in Occitan, the language spoken in French Provence for centuries. This 89-year-old screenwriter, actor and writer Jean-Claude Carriere sets off on a journey through museum collections in Europe to reveal to viewers the secrets of the paintings of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya...

Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) - online

Introducing the Royal Shakespeare Company repertoire, the legendary theatre company from Stratford-upon-Avon, in our online cinema TheatreHD/Play. Stars of British theatre and cinema in William Shakespeare’s plays: David Tennant, Anthony Sher, Simon Russell Beale, Lucian Msamati, Christopher Eccleston, Paapa Essiedu, Kathryn Hunter and other artists loved by the audience.

Dmitri Tcherniakov: The Russian Opera

Stellar opera productions by the most famous Russian opera director, staged in Moscow, Paris, Berlin, Brussels and Lyon, will be available online and in cinemas nationwide.