Ever since Stanilavsky, Meyerhold and Tairov glorified Russian (Soviet) theatre all over the world, domestic productions have aroused great interest abroad, despite the change of the state regime. The theatre remains a sphere of life that is hardly touched by foreign policy complexity and easily crosses all borders. Theater directors, recognized in their Fatherland, find themselves no less in demand abroad, where they continue to form the brand of Russian culture, sometimes becoming real world sensations.

The main example is, of course, Dmitry Chernyakov.

Dmitry Chernyakov, who is still very young by theatrical standards (only 45 years old), is already a laureate not only of the Russian National Theatre Award "Golden Mask", but the winner of "The Opera Awards" in two categories at once: the best director and the best performance.

His debut on the opera stage took place in 1998 at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre, with a production of V. Kobekin's Young David, and was followed immediately by the Mariinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and in 2005 by M. Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at Berlin's Unter den Linden State Opera.

Over the past few years, Dmitry Chernyakov's opera performances have won over the world without exaggeration: the State Opera of Paris, the Danish Royal Opera in Copenhagen, the English National Opera, the Royal Theatre of Madrid, the Metropolitan Opera, the Grand Théâtre del Liceau, the Canadian Opera Company - and this is by no means the entire list of foreign opera houses that have applauded Dmitry Chernyakov.

Of course, one cannot speak of absolute success at the international opera house without a production at La Scala. Dmitry Chernyakov performed there twice: in 2014 Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tsar's Bride and a year earlier Verdi's La Traviata.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of "La Scala Traviata" by Dmitry Chernyakov: 2013 was the bicentenary of the birth of the great composer, in addition, Chernyakov's production opened a new season of the legendary Milan theatre, and, most importantly, for the first time in the history of La Scala a new season was opened by a Russian director.

Unfortunately, a second similar story of dizzying success on the world stage, in the modern Russian theater has not yet. But there are a number of directors who are regularly staged abroad.

For example, in the Baltic States, the viewer enjoys great attention to the dramatic productions of Konstantin Bogomolov, the director, for whom Russia has established a reputation as hardly the main provocateur of the theatre stage. For example, in 2012 the oldest Latvian State Theatre in Liepaja hosted the premiere of the play "Stavanger", which caused a lot of noise both in the professional community and in the general public. A year later, "Stavanger" was also shown to the Russian public as part of the Golden Mask festival. At the same time, in 2013, Konstantin Bogomolov presented "My Dad - Agamemnon" based on Euripides' "Ifigenia in Avlipida" at the Maly Theatre of Vilnius. And this year Bogomolov's play "An Ideal Husband" was included in the program "Wiener Festwochen" - one of the largest European art festivals.

It should be noted that the programme of the Vienna theatre show included another Russian performance: Timofey Kulyabin's Three Sisters. Thus, the Russian theatre received a unique chance to conquer a significant European stage, and this is not a point victory: last year "Idiots" by Kirill Serebryannikov were shown at the main theater show of the world: the festival in Avignon.

This fact can be called a real breakthrough for the Russian theatre, because since 1997, when the so-called "Russian Season" was held in Avignon and the works by Anatoly Vasilyev, Pyotr Fomenko and Rezo Gabriadze were shown to the audience, Russian directors have been at the most significant theatrical review only as spectators.

It should be noted that Serebryannikov's arrival at the Avignon Festival is not accidental: over the last five years he has produced three productions at the Latvian National Theatre ("Dead Souls" by N. Gogol, "Woyzeck" by G. Büchner and "Dreams of Rainis" based on poetry by Jānis Rainis), as well as American Lulu Olga Neuwirth at the Komische Oper Berlin.

Speaking of the successes of Russian theatre in the world, one cannot help mention another director: Dmitry Krymov. His performances have been performed by famous spectators all over the world: Australia, Germany, Great Britain and so on. More recently, his Tararabumbia was shown at two major international theatre festivals: Theater der Welt in Mannheim and Wiener Festwochen in Vienna.

The Maly Drama Theatre of Lev Dodin, for example, is well known all over the world for its regular tours. Over the last ten years this theatre has toured to Poland, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Romania, China, South Korea, Latvia, Estonia, Mexico, Israel, Australia and other countries.

Thus, modern domestic theatre has really far exceeded the borders of Russia, and in all three directions: with tour performances, and with festival screenings, and even with productions at the world's leading venues.

Victoria Miloserdova