The Russian election's most unusual polling both - on stage at Buxton Opera House

One of the favourite Russian theatre companies from Russia in Great Britain will vote for the country's new president in strange circumstances: on the theatre stage of Buxton opera house The Russian State Ballet of Siberia (this is an international name for the ballet company of Krasnoyarsk state opera and ballet theatre) has gained a good reputation after ten successful tours around Great Britain. In many cities and towns of England, Scotland and Wales, where the company gave performances in previous years, tickets for current shows are sold out long before the dates. The current tour coincides with the President elections , which undoubtedly are a very important event for the Russian Federation. Due to this 73 dancers, musicians and technicians from Siberia will not have the possibillity to vote in their homeland. The same applies as far as voting is concerned in election offices arranged by the Russian Embassy in London and Edinburgh, because on polling day, Sunday 4 March, the performers are expected in Buxton by hundreds of spectators, all anticipating the new company production La fille mal gardée that already has got positive reviews in British newspapers. Under the initiative of Sergei Selivanov, a representative of Raymond Gubbay , by courteous invitation of whom the Russian State ballet of Siberia has been to the United Kingdom ten times, and with the active participation of artistic director of the company Sergei Bobrov and general manager Svetlana Guziy, the company and Russian Embassy made an agreement to arrange the voting in the Opera House. It will take place straight at the stage, where a screen, a part of theatrical sets, will be used for keeping confidentiality instead of the standard cabin for voting. Usually the item plays not the least role in the comic scene of La fille mal gardée involving Simone, the rich farmer's widow, Tomas, the proprietor of a vineyard and Colas, a secret love interest of Lise, Simone's daughter. Well-to-do persons discover the poor peasant hiding behind the screen. That leads to the cancellation of a lucrative engagement between Lise and Alain, Tomas' son. Due to Mikhail Prokhorov 's participation in this President Election race, who is quite unusual candidate for Russian political landscape of the last 11 years, it can be suggested, that the person who will be found behind the screen this time will not be so obvious as it is in a performance... Once voting is completed, the sealed ballot box will be taken to Edinburgh to join those organised by the embassy there.