Directly two opera performances of the Krasnoyarsk state opera and ballet theatre entered in long-list of the national theatre award "Golden Mask".

High estimation of experts awarded the premieres of last season – "Medea" L. Cherubini staged by Maria Tikhonova, which critics looked with Eka Gorstka in the role of Medea, and "La Traviata" (director Nadezhda Stolbova).

The theatre award "Golden Mask" was founded in 1993 by the Union of theatre figures of the Russian Federation. It is handed to performances of all genres of theatre: drama, opera, ballet, modern dance, operetta and musical, puppet theatre. Annually advisory councils of "Golden mask" create the competitive poster in which the best Russian performances are included. The long-list of award exists three years and shows a wide cut of artistic triumphs of season over all country. To our theatre it is honourable and it is joyful to appear in this representative list which also included statements of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Maryinsky, Moscow Theatre named after K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Helicon opera theatre and other leading theatres of the country.