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Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. Read the full review.

On "22, A Million," Justin Vernon reimagines his music from the bottom up by letting technology — synthesizers, treated vocals, electronic sound effects — dictate. The songs retain their melancholy cast, but now must fight for air beneath static and noise. Read the full review .

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The new album embraces her individuality more explicitly than ever, both more autobiographical and more politically and socially direct than anything she'd recorded previously. It's a rawer, less elaborate work than its predecessors, yet still hugely ambitious. Read the review

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Kendrick Lamar's "Untitled, Unmastered" is presented as an unfinished work, though it rarely sounds like one. Read the review .

Woody introduces the gang to a homemade spork toy with self-esteem issues in "Toy Story 4."  Read the review.

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"Lemonade" is more than just a play for pop supremacy. It's the work of an artist who is trying to get to know herself better, for better or worse, and letting the listeners/viewers in on the sometimes brutal self-interrogation. Read the full review .

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On her seventh studio album, "Golden Hour" (MCA Nashville), the singer-songwriter doesn't get hung up on genre. She's made a style-hopping pop album that infuses her songs with a relaxed spaciousness while muting, but not ignoring, her country roots. Read the review

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Now "Schmilco" (dBpm Records) arrives, a product of the same recording sessions that produced "Star Wars" but a much different album. Though it's ostensibly quieter and less jarring than its predecessor, it presents its own radical take on the song-based, folk and country-tinged side of the band. Read the full review .

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"Blonde" is a critique of materialism with Frank Ocean employing two distinct voices, like characters in a play, a recurring theme throughout the album and perhaps its finest sonic achievement. A party spirals out of control, the music rich but low key, a melange of organ and hovering synthesizers. Ocean uses distorting devices on his voice to add emotional texture and to enhance and sharpen the characters he briefly embodies. The upshot: They're all little slices of Ocean's personality with a role to play and they each sound distinct. Read the full review.

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Warpaint's unerring feel for gauzy hooks and slinky arrangements germinated over a decade and flourished on the quartet's excellent 2014 self-titled album. But the band has always nudged its arrangements onto the dance floor — subtly on record, more overtly on stage — and "Heads Up" (Rough Trade) gives the group's inner disco ball a few extra spins. Read the review .

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A grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh. Read the review.

Not many albums could survive Ed Sheeran performing reggae, but Pharrell Williams always took chances — not all of them successful — in N.E.R.D.Despite the Sheeran gaffe, "No One Ever Really Dies," the band's first album in seven years, is a typically diverse, trippy ride from the group that established Williams' career as a performer in the early 2000s alongside Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Read the full review.

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"Black America Again" (ARTium/Def Jam) arrives as a one of the year's most potent protest albums. The album sags midway through with a handful of lightweight love songs, but finishes with some of its most emotionally resounding tracks: the "Glory"-like plea for redemption "Rain" with Legend, the celebration of family that is "Little Chicago Boy," and the staggering "Letter to the Free." Read the review .

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A tropical island boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) and his much-abused ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) enter a vortex of rough justice and fancy riddles in "Serenity." Read the review.

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Penniless, driven, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) regards his next canvas subject in "At Eternity's Gate," directed by visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Read the review.

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Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the thriller "Greta." Read the review.

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Danielle Savre on the red carpet at the ABC winter press tour on Jan. 9.

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Sound often says it all in Drake's world, but "Views" plays in a narrow range. The trademark hovering synths and barely-there percussion edge out most of the hooks, in favor of long fades and enervated tempos that start to drag about halfway through this slow-moving album. Read the review .

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Elton John (Taron Egerton) lays down a track for his express train to super-stardom in "Rocketman." The musical biopic co-stars Jamie Bell as lyricist Bernie Taupin. Read the review.

Childhood friends and uneasy lovers played by Yoo Ah-in (left) and Jeon Jong-seo (center) find their lives disrupted by a mysterious man of means (Steven Yeung, right) in "Burning." Read the review.

Vanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and Ralph (John C. Reilly) zip around the web in a mad dash to save Vanellope's arcade game, "Sugar Rush," in this wild sequel to the 2012 "Wreck-It Ralph." Read the review.

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In contrast, "Junk" (Mute"), M83's seventh studio album, sounds chintzy — a bubble-gum snyth-pop album that indulges Gonzalez's love of decades-old TV soundtracks, hair-metal guitar solos and kitschy pop songs. Read the full review .

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Unburdened by Batman and Superman, the DC Comics realm turns in a not-bad origin story buoyed by Zachary Levi as the superhero version of 15-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel). Read the review.

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Cystic fibrosis patients Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) negotiate a tricky mutual attraction in "Five Feet Apart," directed by Justin Baldoni.  Read the review.

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Stephan James and KiKi Layne play Fonny and Tish, expectant parents in 1970s Harlem in the new James Baldwin adaptation "If Beale Street Could Talk."  Read the review.

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A late-night TV talk show host (Emma Thompson) faces falling ratings, personal crises and a blindingly white-male writers' room in "Late Night," co-starring and written by Mindy Kaling. Read the review.

"Everything Now" is a tighter but not better album. The heavyweight arena anthems of Arcade Fire's 2004 debut, "Funeral," are long gone, replaced by brooding lyrics encased in lighter music. Read the review .

"American Dream" is a breakup album of sorts but not in the traditional sense. This is about breakups with youth, the past, and the heroes and villains that populated it. It underlines the notion of breaking up as just a step away from letting go — of friends, family, relevance. Read the review.

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A high-powered ad agency executive (Tika Sumpter, right) takes in her ex-con sister (Tiffany Haddish, center) in "Nobody's Fool."  Read the review.

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Washington D.C. power brokers Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) and Lynne Cheney have a date with destiny in Adam McKay's "Vice," co-starring Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld.  Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actor for Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actress for Amy Adams, Best Director for Adam McKay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing,

"Ye" isn't so much a musical statement as a 23-minute, seven-track therapy session. Read the review

Queen Anne's (Olivia Colman) court wrestles with the question of how to finance a war with France. Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, uses her wits, her body and the queen's bed to coerce Anne into raising taxes on the citizenry in order to keep the off-screen battle going. Then the unexpected arrival of her country cousin, Abigail (Emma Stone), a noblewoman fallen on hard times. A dab hand with medicinal herbs, Abigail quickly rises above servant status to become the queen's new favorite. Game on! Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actress for Olivia Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design,

"Peace Trail" — Neil Young's second album this year and sixth since 2014 — is occasionally fascinating. It's also not very good, a release that surely would've benefited from a bit more time and consideration, which might have given Young's ad hoc band — drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Paul Bushnell — a chance to actually learn the songs. But the four-day recording session sounds like a getting-to-know-you warmup instead of a finished product. Read the full review.

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On their new album, "Existentialism," the Mekons turn their audience and the recording space into accomplices for the band's high-wire act. Read the full review.

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Capping the trilogy started with "Unbreakable" (2000) and the surprise hit "Split (2017), Shymalan's treatise on superhero origin stories brings James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson together for a plodding psych-hospital escape.  Read the review.

The real stars of "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" are sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn. Their aural creature designs actually sound like something new — part machine, part prehistoric whatzit.  Read the review.

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In "First Man," Ryan Gosling reteams with "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle to relay the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Read the review.

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On "Here" (Merge), the band's first album in six years and 10th overall, the front line of Norman Blake, Gerard Love and Raymond McGinley once again trades songs (four each) and lead vocals, over sturdily constructed pop-rock arrangements. But the band has taken some subtle evolutionary turns to where it's now a faint shadow of its "Bandwagonesque" incarnation. Read the review .

When Aretha Franklin recorded her bestselling gospel album in early 1972, director Sydney Pollack's camera crew shot many hours of footage, unseen publicly until now. "Amazing Grace" is now in theaters.  Read the review.

Kanye West's "The Life of Pablo" (GOOD/Def Jam) sounds like a work in progress rather than a finished album. It's a mess, more a series of marketing opportunities in which West changed the album title and the track listing multiple times, to the point where the very thing that made West tolerable despite a penchant for tripping over his own ego — the music itself — became anti-climactic. Read the review .

Six miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham). Read the review.

“Station 19” star Danielle Savre was born and raised in California and now calls Chicago home — though she hasn’t been here in awhile.

Savre purchased a three-bedroom home in Old Town in June with her boyfriend, Blackhawks hockey analytics/video analyst Andrew Contis . As they started a bathroom remodel, she flew to South Africa to film “Deep Blue Sea 2.” When she got back, the bathroom was done, but she had booked a main role on the “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff “Station 19,” which films in Los Angeles.

“I’ve owned it for 10 or 11 months. I’ve only actually spent about three months in it, which is crazy, but it’s home,” Savre told the Tribune by phone.

Savre, 30, said she is renting a place in Los Angeles while she films the ABC network drama. She plays ambitious Seattle firefighter Maya Bishop, a former Olympic athlete who goes on a special assignment with Lt. Andy Herrera (played by Jaina Lee Ortiz ) on an episode scheduled to air at 8 p.m. Thursday. Savre said her sister, firefighter Stephanie Savre , helped her prepare for the role.

Savre said she hasn’t been back to Chicago lately because of her hectic shooting schedule for “Station 19.” She and Contis grew up together in the same area of California and have been dating for about four years, much of it long distance.

She praised Chicago’s Midwest vibe and called the city a good mix of the best qualities of New York and LA. She said Chicago has “hands down” the best food (Maple & Ash, Velvet Taco and Jellyfish are among her faves), and she’s looking forward to spending her summer in the city after she wraps filming on “Station 19’s” inaugural 10-episode season.

“I just want to go back and I want to get on a boat and go on the lake and just kind of enjoy my house again,” she said.

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On Thursday, March 22, Danielle Savre  is officially jumping in feet-first to Shonda Rhimes ‘ Shondaland universe by starring in Rhimes’ highly-anticipated Grey’s Anatomy spin-off, Station 19.  Set in Seattle, the series focuses on the lives of the men and women at Seattle Fire Station 19 and co-stars Grey Damon and Jason George. In the series, the 29-year-old plays Maya Bishop, a Station 19 firefighter and former Olympic athlete (and the L.A. resident didn’t have to stretch too far for the role, either… her sister, Stephanie, is one of only 93 female LAFD firefighters).

Savre gained attention early on for her stand out roles in NBC’s smash hit Heroes and the lead in MTV’s first scripted series, Kaya. She starred in CW’s Supernatural spin off Bloodlines and in the RJ Cutler directed pilot Four Stars for CBS. Most recently Danielle played the lead of Tyler Perry’ s Too Close to Home for two seasons. Next up is the film Deep Blue Sea 2, which is slated for an April 17 release. Here, this SoCal-born beauty shares her insider guide to the City of Angels.

Where were you born: Woodland Hills, CA

How long in LA : 10 years in LA proper. I was born and raised just outside city limits in Simi Valley so LA has always felt like somewhat of a home to me.

Neighborhood: Hollywood

Occupation: Actress

Favorite Restaurant: Café Gratitude ! I eat so much when I am here but I never feel guilty since it is all vegan. The Macro bowl is my go to favorite but I honestly have never had something I didn’t like.

Best Sushi: Sushi by H. They have Uni that is so fresh that if you are there at the right time you will get to meet the man who went diving to get it that morning. I crave their Kabocha squash soup!

Best Italian: Osteria Mozza, I was raised by my Italian side of the family and the Italian food here is just as good as my grandma’s home cooking.

Best dessert: Erin Mckenna’s Bakery. I have given up dairy and they make the best vegan desserts. My favorite is the chocolate chip Sammy with vanilla filling.

Best place for a romantic date: Paley. The ambiance and staff there are superb. I always reserve a booth and it makes you feel like I have the whole restaurant to yourself.

Best Sunday brunch: Republique. The croissants and pastries. Oh my gosh are they so good. Their cathedral ceiling is entirely glass allowing the sun to fill the whole place with light. You feel like you are in a French courtyard. However, you have to get there early as the line has been known to wrap around the block.

Best place for a power business meeting : Gracias Madre . I always try to get the table near the fireplace and the mescal drinks here are in a league of their own.

If you have out of town guests, which hotel would you recommend? Farmer’s Daughter Hotel. In my opinion it’s in the best location for visitors. They can walk across the street to the grove, the farmers market or LACMA. Also the themed style is so much fun and provides and experience different than your traditional hotel.

Favorite shopping venue/boutique: Shopaholic Sample Sale. I have found some amazing pieces here. They have 3 locations and carry amazing designers that you most likely haven’t heard of yet. I was introduced to C\meo here!

Favorite place to buy jewelry/watches: Mr. Warburton. He is a long time friend and has sold me some beautiful and classic staples pieces that I love rocking on the red carpet.

Best Spa : Burke Williams Sherman Oaks. They built it to feel as you are in the Hamptons. It’s airy and bright which is unusual for a spa. My favorite part is the silent room. Which is just a Jacuzzi and the ceiling is covered in lights to look like stars. It doesn’t get more peaceful than that room.

Favorite Charity Event: The Tough Mudder Half which has partnered up with Grey Anatomy’s Giacomo Gianniotti to raise money for My Friends Place, a drop in resource center for homeless youth in Los Angeles. I am excited since our whole cast will be taking part in it together!

Favorite Cultural Event: Into Action. I was introduced to the event by my costar Jason George.

Favorite Cultural Institution: Central Library in Downtown LA. I love getting lost in here. It’s just a sea of knowledge, it makes me wish I could read all of them.

Best Steakhouse: I don’t eat steak so I have no idea!!

Best Pizza: Stella Barra Pizzeria. There pizza’s are cooked to perfection, thin crust, crunchy on the edges and soft in the middle.

Best Lunch: M Café Melrose. It is the only fully macrobiotic restaurant I know of. You can pick from the deli selection or order a meal but I always have to take home a pint of the tuna, soba noodles and winter vegetables if they are in season!

Best Gym/Athletic Facility: Orange Theory Fitness, I prefer workouts that are structured and allow me to set goals. You wear a heart rate monitor and strive to stay in the orange zone. It allows me to keep track of my progress while I’m working out and push myself if I am slacking.

Best Massage: Soothe, this is actually an app that one of our directors Dennis Smith introduced me to. I have yet to have an unsatisfactory massage therapist and they work around my schedule and come right to my house!

Best Limousine/Driving Service : Uber. It’s just the easiest way to get around and I never have to worry about parking. Sometimes I like to get fancy and order the black car.

Best Museum/Exhibit: The Broad. I don’t know much about art but the art on display at The Broad makes me feel and view things in a way I never thought I would. I am captivated by the work of

Describe your city in three words : Different is desired.

Favorite historic/legendary place to see or explore: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. My friends and I make a point to see every Star War’s film here on opening night. It has so much history of all the films I grew up loving.

All-around favorite spot in Los Angeles: Abbot Kinney. I love just walking up and down the street. It’s just close enough to the ocean were you feel the ocean breeze. I love stopping into Toms for a coffee or window-shopping the beautifully displayed stores that line the street.

Best Aspect of Los Angeles : The weather. You can’t beat it.

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Danielle Savre Talks Maya Bishop’s Roller-Coaster Season and Getting to Direct Her First ‘Station 19’ Episode

The actor also tells us about her sister — who’s a firefighter!

We know Danielle Savre as Maya Bishop, the former Olympic gold medalist turned current lieutenant on the ABC hit Station 19 . But Savre has been in the biz, as they say, for nearly her whole life, acting since she was 7 years old. She began working in commercials and print ads, and when she was 12, she got her first television role.

“I had a big personality,” Savre admits with a smirk.

Savre grew up in Simi Valley, California, with her mother and sister and from a young age, attracted a lot of attention. A notable early fan was Savre’s second-grade best friend’s mom, an assistant at the largest child talent agency at the time, run by Cindy Osbrink, which still operates today. Osbrink helped to launch the careers of many an extrovert kid, and given Savre’s gregariousness, it wasn’t long before she found herself in her own audition for the agency. On that fateful day, there were no parents allowed in the room, per Osbrink’s policy, which helped weed out the dreaded “stage mom” scenario.

“It was just me and Cindy in the room,” says Savre, “and I was this little, sassy, outgoing 7-year-old.”

It goes without saying, Savre nailed the audition, and she was soon signed to a two-year contract and booked her first job with Mattel. Then came Cabbage Patch dolls, My Little Pony, Polly Pocket, and Barbie ads. In television, she landed roles on Grounded for Life , Summerland , and Heroes . At last, in 2018, Savre found her way to Shondaland and was offered the role of Maya Bishop, an opportunity that has put her firmly on the Hollywood map. The role seemed somewhat kismet, given that Savre’s sister had already been working as a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter for three years when Savre joined the fictional Station 19 .

But Savre hasn’t exactly stopped there. In 2021, she also co-wrote and directed a short film, HEaRD , about a woman struggling with speaking out after experiencing a devastating trauma, and on May 4, she’s adding another line to her Station 19 résumé, making her TV directorial debut with the Station 19 episode “Dirty Laundry,” which follows the team as they respond to a horrific freeway pileup, as well as Andy, Natasha, and Ben, who are dealing with personal and professional fallouts.

“I want to do it all,” says Savre. “Directing and acting is more what I gravitate to versus writing, [but] I love coming up with ideas and sitting in rooms with writer friends and spitballing stuff. I would love to eventually develop more projects that focus on female empowerment and women in history. That is something that, obviously, everyone’s trying to make sure that we shed light on since so many stories have gone unspoken.”

Before the episode airs, Shondaland got to talk with Savre about Maya’s journey this season, what it was like to be a director on a major TV show, and how cool (and weird) it is to have a sister who’s a firefighter when you’re playing one on TV.

VALENTINA VALENTINI: Maya has had a tough go of it this season. What has it been like to kind of go on this downward spiral with her?

DANIELLE SAVRE: As an actor, it’s so rewarding. I’ve been given such amazing material to work with, and I think it’s such a valuable storyline to have. There are a lot of people out there who struggle with trying to be the perfect version of themselves, and it’s just unattainable. So, I enjoy the realistic aspect of the storyline and how they’re dealing with it, but then it’s also so much fun to have this much range to play with.

VV: Where is Maya at now?

DS: After the big breakdown, or breakthrough, I should say, with Diane [Tracie Thoms], it’s been about her coming to terms with who she is now. There haven’t been more therapy sessions on-screen, but we’ve seen Maya be challenged with the old Maya coming back up, figuring out how to balance wanting everything — being the captain, wanting the job, wanting the family life, looking for balance. Only time will tell how that will all pan out, though.

Maya and Carina [Stefania Spampinato] are rekindled and falling in love again, and learning how to date and learning to trust each other, specifically Carina learning to trust Maya again. And that’s not going to be something that’s easy to do. So, I’m glad that the show took their time to play out that storyline. I think it’s going to make everyone very happy. And me and Stefani are very happy to be able to do happy scenes together instead of a whole season of yelling and crying and being upset on camera because it’s the exact opposite of how we are off camera. It’s nice to go back to the old ways.

VV: How did directing come about? Did the producers and showrunner offer that, or did you ask?

DS: Oh, this has been five years in the making. I initially had talked about it with Paris Barclay, who used to be our directing producer, and he said to go for it. He told me to start shadowing, so I did. I shadowed directors Tessa Blake, DeMane Davis, Tom Verica, and Paris a couple of times, and Kevin McKidd on Grey’s Anatomy . I shadowed 12 separate times. And then I called [co-executive producer] Sara Fischer and asked, “Who do I talk to to make this happen?” And she told me to call [showrunner] Krista Vernoff. I called her and talked it through with Krista, who said her only stipulation is that I have to direct a short film. So, I was about to go into production with my short film when Covid hit. I was three days out from production starting, and as we know, the whole world shut down. It was a blessing in disguise, though, because then a year later I got to shoot the short, which actually gave me a year to work on the script. I wrote it with Tia Napolitano, who used to be one of the writers on Station 19 and is a dear friend of mine. I submitted it to film festivals, and it did an amazing job on the film festival circuit, winning awards and being a fan favorite with a lot of women’s festivals because it touches on women’s issues that we’re dealing with in the real world.

So, I did all that and thought I was going to direct during season five, but it got pushed until season six. I finally got the go-ahead, and I hope that they will entrust me with more episodes moving forward.

VV: They really made you work for it, huh?

DS: They did! But it was a good thing that they made me go out there and fight for it and work for it because in the process, I gained so much respect from the crew, from the writers, and I learned so much as a director. Shadowing only does so much, but getting out there and actually directing your own stuff, it was another blessing in disguise. At times, it felt like it was taking forever and that they’d never let me direct. But I’m grateful for the entire five-year journey.

VV: Set us up with the premise of the episode without giving anything away.

DS: It’s such a good episode. I got so lucky. It’s written by Emily Culver, and it touches on some very important subject matter. Josh Randall’s character, Beckett, comes back into the picture after being gone for four episodes after the death of a fellow firefighter, and he’s acting very strange, and everyone’s picking up on it, which will play out in the following episode. Jason George’s Warren is reeling from having to make basically a “Sophie’s choice” decision in the episode before — the choice between saving one person and another in a fire. I also got to shoot in the [ Grey’s Anatomy ] Grey Sloan ICU, which was amazing. My first episode, and I get to shoot at Grey Sloan! Well, we built it on our stage as a complete replica, which was still pretty surreal. And then there’s a huge incident, which the show doesn’t get a ton of these days. It’s a four-car pileup with a love story at the center. There’s an older couple who rekindled their love and just found each other again at 70, and there are two young teens that make a huge mistake and have to somehow move forward in their life after this horrible incident that happens. And then on top of that, the episode has a ton of female empowerment because it deals with the scandal of Chief Ross and Sullivan’s relationship coming out and the fallout from that. Andy really has her back.

VV: Wow, that’s a lot going on for your first time directing.

DS: It was. It was a lot of pressure too. I got the script, and I was like, “Emily [Culver, who wrote the episode], you are not going easy on me.” And it was a crazy process too: You have eight days of prep and then 10 days of filming, and during my prep, I shot an episode of Station 19 and two episodes of Grey’s . It’s been a whirlwind, but I got a huge episode that I am so happy about, and I hope everyone loves it.

VV: What was the experience like being the director on such an established and well-known TV show?

DS: I liked having answers and being decisive. I’m a little type A — Me and Maya are very different, but one thing we’re a little aligned on is that type A personality. So, being able to prep and put all the pieces together and come up with ideas and have answers for people, I really enjoyed seeing it all come to fruition and knowing that it was my vision. And everyone in our 300-person crew comes to me with all their ideas and questions, and being able to have answers or collaborate on things with the medical advisers and the fire tech, it was great to feel like part of the process. Sometimes as an actor you get lost in the element of “I’m just here to come in, say my lines, play this character, and leave.” You have no say in what’s written or filmed or edited. So, it felt good to play a more significant role in the process of making Station 19 .

VV: It sounds like you loved it.

DS: I loved it! I’m going to live on the high from that for quite some time.

VV: Was there anything you didn’t like about it?

DS: There was nothing I didn’t like. I will say that when you have 10 days to shoot 50 pages, ideally you want to be shooting five pages a day, but sometimes scheduling doesn’t work out that way. There were some days where we had to shoot close to eight pages of dialogue, and those days were a little stressful, but we still had a blast. Everyone told me I handled it so calmly, and I was surprised because inside I was going crazy. I guess that’s one thing I can take away from it — I didn’t know until this situation that I was calm under pressure. So, that’s good. I took that away from it.

VV: We must ask, because it is just the craziest coincidence, about your sister being an LAFD firefighter. When you first got the role, what did she say?

DS: She was the first one I called because of the irony of the whole situation, and she didn’t believe it. I don’t usually tell family and friends about auditions because I’m a little superstitious when it comes to all of that, so she didn’t even know I was going up for Station 19 . And then I booked it, and I called her, and I was like, “You’re never gonna guess what I just got cast as.” And she could not actually guess it. I said, “Stephanie, I’m playing a firefighter!” She had some choice words to include with “Are you blank blank kidding me?!” She was very shocked. But it’s been great because I can call on her for advice, and I feel like there’s a little bit more pressure to make sure I really represent female firefighters to the best of my ability because she is one.

VV: What does she think of your work as a firefighter or the show itself?

DS: She loves it. I mean, she has to sometimes come to the show’s defense because her fellow firefighters will point out things that are not accurate. And she’ll say, “Listen, if they filmed everything we did, it’d be totally boring.” But she loves the show, and she’s so proud of me, and I’m so proud of her. It’s a pretty crazy, surreal situation because there are only three shows that exist with female firefighters, and I’m on one of them, and my sister is one of the five percent of female firefighters in the LAFD. It’s pretty crazy.

VV: Has she given you any pointers, or have you called on her for advice at any point?

DS: Oh, yeah, on such a wide range of things. She has told me to make sure I use all the real tools. Because we have fake prop tools, and so I think that’s something that everyone knows if I’m going into our fake fires on the show, I’m always using real, heavy tools. But yes, I can call her and ask how to do something in a specific situation. I think it was the pilot episode when we did a scene where we had to jump out of a window. I asked her how she would’ve done it, and so I kind of came on to set with my ideas, and I think the fire tech was very impressed.

VV: Outside of Station 19 , you’ve got some hobbies — I hear you’re getting your pilot’s license?

DS: I am! I’ve always loved flying. Two of my best friends have a small Piper Seneca, and I’ve flown with them for a long time. Finally, they were like, “You need to get your license.” This was about three years ago now, and it’s been a slow process — there’s only so many hours in every day — but yeah, I love flying; I love being up in the air. I’ve always been a little bit of an adventurer. I scuba dive as well. I guess I like to go to those unknown places deep in the ocean and up in the sky. Although I won’t skydive yet. I keep telling myself I have to, but I just can’t bring myself to jump out of a perfectly good plane.

DS: I feel like everything in this conversation goes back to female empowerment, and yeah, why not? I love that. But CARE’s main thing as an organization is to empower women around the world. I gravitated towards that. In 2019, during season two, one of the writers, Angela Harvey, told me about this convention in Washington, D.C., she was going to go to, and she asked if I wanted to come. I was all in. I had been looking at organizations to be a part of, to really be hands-on with, and most organizations seemed to be more about just showing up to their red carpet and giving them money or helping them raise money by just being there. And I really wanted to be a part of something that was more hands-on and that gave me a voice in what they were doing.

In between season two and three, I went to D.C. to CARE’s fantastic convention, where all their ambassadors and anyone who wants can come to learn what CARE is working on, what bills they’re putting on the floor, what policies they’re pushing for with the congressmen and women in the Capitol. I sat there, and I asked a million questions, and Jonathan Young, the West Coast rep, gravitated towards me. He saw how engaged I was, so that June, I got to go to Capitol Hill, talk to my local congressman and women, and fight for the International Violence Against Women Act. It was so empowering, and it felt like the right thing to do. Not long after, they asked if I wanted to go see what they were doing on the ground in Zambia. I went and saw what they were doing in three small villages to empower women and young girls — they were building schools to help with the communities in those areas that really needed education; they were providing transportation to those schools; they were fighting against child marriage. It’s just an organization that, in my experience, is so transparent. I feel passionate about raising money for a company that I’m seeing firsthand the work they’re doing.

Valentina Valentini is a London-based entertainment, travel, and food writer and is also a senior contributor to Shondaland. Elsewhere, she has written for Vanity Fair , Vulture , Variety , Thrillist , Heated , and The Washington Post . Her personal essays can be read in the Los Angeles Times and Longreads , and her tangents and general complaints can be seen on Instagram at @ByValentinaV .

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Danielle Savre can be seen starring in ABC’s hit action-drama series “Station 19,” a spinoff of the longest-running network medical drama series, “Grey’s Anatomy,” follows the lives of a group of heroic firefighters in the Seattle Fire Department based at Station 19. Savre is a standout as Maya Bishop, a former Olympic athlete who has an innate competitive nature that pushes her to be the best firefighter in the house.

Savre was born and raised in Southern California and had a deep-rooted passion for the performing arts from a young age. She got her first big break on NBC’s “Heroes” in 2007 and has worked steadily ever since. Once wrapping “Heroes,” she went on to land the title role of Kaya on MTV’s rock star series of the same name, as well as the lead in The CW’s “Supernatural” spinoff entitled “Bloodlines” and in the RJ Cutler-directed pilot “Four Stars” for CBS. Additional television credits include lead roles in Tyler Perry’s “Too Close to Home” for TLC, “T@gged” for AwesomenessTV and a multi-episode arc in season seven of “Blue Bloods,” to name a few.

On the film front, Savre was most recently seen in Warner Bros.’ sci-fi horror feature “Deep Blue Sea 2,” which was released in April 2018. She also co-starred in HBO’s “Bring It On: All Or Nothing,” opposite Hayden Panettiere and Jake McDorman, and held the lead role in the Columbia Pictures/Sony film “Boogeyman 2.” She recently completed lead roles in several independent features including Pierre David’s “The Perfect Stalker”; John Stimpson’s “The Wrong Car”; H.M. Coakley’s Black List screenplay “Adulterers”; Gwen Wynn’s “Wild About Harry,” which won the Best of the Fest Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival; and Todd Sandler’s “A Cohort of Guests,” which recently premiered at the Santa Barbara Film Festival.

Aside from her work in front of the camera, Savre has brought projects to life behind the scenes producing several short films including Jeff Betancourt’s award-winning film “Knock Knock,” which premiered at the SXSW film festival and has played at 30 film festivals worldwide to date. Savre also recently received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Rowan Maher’s short film “Collar” at the California Women’s Film Festival.

When she isn’t on set, Savre has a tremendous passion for giving back and is active with a handful of organizations including CARE, a nonprofit that works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice. Savre spoke alongside CARE on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., about the International Violence Against Women’s Act.

Currently living in the Los Angeles area, Savre strives to bring powerful characters to life in film and television, producing projects and working tirelessly to empower women of all ages.

Danielle Savre on setting boundaries and letting go of perfection

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“Playing Maya has taught me that you have to balance work and your personal life. I feel like I’ve been working for so long — I’ve been working since I was seven — which is not a bad thing at all, I love working. I’m probably a little bit too much of a workaholic, but it’s always been a priority, and Maya’s arc sheds light on the fact that your personal life has to have its priorities too and there have to be boundaries.”

Covering our Summer 2023 issue, Danielle Savre is best known for playing fan-favorite character Maya Bishop on ABC’s Station 19 . Danielle discusses balancing work with her personal life, embracing her accomplishments, and her Station 19 directorial debut.

Thank you for taking the time to chat! First, let’s talk about your experience directing this episode. What was it like and would you want to dive into it more?

I absolutely would love to dive into it more! I can’t wait to do it again — it was so rewarding! It took five years of begging and fighting for it on Station 19 to get the opportunity to direct an episode, so when I finally got there I was really excited about the episode I got. It was a huge episode and I’m so happy it was ‘cause the challenge was so rewarding and it paid off so well. I’m proud and I love this episode. It’s been a great experience!

Bishop and Deluca’s relationship has been rocky this season, so what can fans expect to see from them moving forward?

I think they finally turned the corner on that. I hope that they’re finally starting to date again. They’re learning to trust each other again and I’m hoping that we’ll continue to see that grow as it did when we first saw them dating seasons ago. I hope that they’ll eventually be in a place where they’re ready for childhood again — to be parents. We’ll see, hopefully that will be nice. In the future (season 7), I would love it if that storyline finally plays out. I think it’s time! The fans are really ready for it, and I think Maya has finally done the work and she herself is ready for it.

Beckett makes his return to 19 in this episode. What are your thoughts about him returning so soon? Do you think that there’s still work that needs to be done? We see him give an ax to Ruiz at the end of the episode. What do you think this symbolizes? 

I think he (Beckett) still has a ton of work to do. In my own personal opinion, he’s a little bit in denial. In a weird way, he’s accepted it, but I think what Beckett’s going through and how he’s processing that will really play out in the next episode. My episode really sets up the storylines that are gonna play out in the final two episodes and I’m really proud of that as well. 

I think you have to wait and see! What that ax symbolizes is really going to show itself in the next episode. Stay tuned to see what giving it up means!

Ross and Sullivan are going through it in the worst way! Do you think this will all blow over for them?

I hope they can finally communicate. I hope that their relationship can exist — that a woman in such a powerful position can find love and not have to choose between her job and her romantic life. I really hope that’s what ends up happening with them and they find a way to make it work. It gives hope, it’s so sad at the end. Merle Dandridge did such a beautiful job delivering the nuances of those scenes, especially since there wasn’t much dialogue. She showed so much in her face and did such a great job of showing that this woman is really struggling. She loves this person and it’s the love of her life and yet she has to do what’s right for her career as well. She has to fight for all the women that look up to her and are inspired by her, as the first female chief of Seattle. I hope it’s a story that eventually plays itself out as showing that you can have it all — that would be nice.

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I know this is an emotionally heavy show, so what does your self-care routine look like?

Oh my goodness! It depends. It can be physically and emotionally taxing at times. As you saw this season, Maya had a ton of emotions and ups and downs and very hard scenes to shoot. 

From an emotional standpoint, it can be really hard at times to get my head out of those spaces after I’m done filming. I did struggle a little bit with getting out of that headspace. There were a couple episodes we shot that I just couldn’t get out of it. Having that support system around you, trying to make sure I’m going to watch a funny movie tonight, or go out with friends … whatever I think might get me in the right headspace and remind me that where I got my head to get to for those emotional scenes is not reality. Chocolate never hurts! I think anyone that knows me I have a sweet tooth so that always helps as well. 

My self-care routine for the physically taxing stuff is making sure I do preventative care. Stretching, yoga, going to an infrared sauna and listening to a meditation … I love doing that and it’s really close to the stages so that’s always great for my mind and body.

It’s taxing both physically and emotionally, which is what makes it so rewarding but those would be my self-care routines — and of course sleep!

What was your favorite moment directing or acting wise in this week’s episode?

I kind of forgot I was acting because I felt like I had the director’s hat on, so when I was watching the episode and editing it with our editor, I was like ‘wow I have that huge scene with Jonathan Slavin where I’m yelling at the angry driver.’ That was a rewarding scene as an actor to do and see how it turned out because on the day, I was just directing, and I couldn’t even remember what I did in that scene.

From directing, the episode as a whole. I can’t pick one specific scene. I am so grateful that Emily Culver (the writer) gave me so much to work with. She really challenged me in the best ways. She knows I do well under pressure so that’s maybe why she did that. I love our entire crew and how they came together and really supported me throughout the entire episode from prep to post. They showed how much they love me because they really all brought it and everything I asked for. Every vision I had, the DP executed perfectly, the camera operators knocked out of the park, and the actors were on point the entire time as well.

The whole experience was so rewarding as a whole. It’s bittersweet because I’ll never experience it as a first again. Now the scary experience will be to knock the second one out of the park as well. I’ll always cherish this first episode and how everyone showed up for me in ways I’ll never be able to verbalize — I’m so grateful and thankful to our crew and cast. 

I know you’re working on getting your pilot’s license. Talk a little about that. How is it going?

It’s been on hold because my brain has been completely wrapped up in directing and making sure I give all my time to that, but I am going to be getting back into it after this week. My episode airs and then I have an online convention to do with the fans on Sunday, which I’m excited about, then next week I’m gonna start flying again! Most schools require 40 hours, which I’m close to, but the problem is that I don’t want to get my license until I feel like I’m ready. When I take these breaks, I need to do a whole refresher course to get back to where I feel comfortable. It would be nice to get my license during this hiatus, if I can complete it, but if not, hopefully by the end of the year. 

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You’re an ambassador for CARE ! Tell us about the organization and the work you do with them. 

CARE is such a fantastic organization! They’ve been around forever. Most people that I talk to know about them. I had never heard about them until one of our writers in season 2 (Angela) introduced me to them. They were one of the first organizations that let me be hands on. When I became a series regular on Station 19, I wanted to use my recognition and platform to speak up about causes that were important to me, but so many organizations that I talked to and wanted to support just wanted me to donate or raise money. I felt that was false and wasn’t right. When I met CARE, they introduced me to their organization and sent me to Washington D.C. for their convention. I went there for three days and met all the other people who work at CARE, as well as those who work in politics in D.C. to fight for CARE. I asked a million questions and they answered every single one, which showed me how transparent they were.

What is something you’ve taken away from playing Maya Bishop?

She’s had such a phenomenal arc throughout all these seasons and gone through so many ups and downs, even though a lot of those downs are her own doing. Playing Maya has taught me that you have to balance work and your personal life. I feel like I’ve been working for so long — I’ve been working since I was seven — which is not a bad thing at all, I love working. I’m probably a little bit too much of a workaholic, but it’s always been a priority, and Maya’s arc sheds light on the fact that your personal life has to have its priorities too and there have to be boundaries. You have to let go of the unattainable desire to be perfect, and be happy in the successes you have — to be happy in the moment and embrace your accomplishments — instead of constantly fighting for the next achievement, which is what Maya does and a little bit of what I do. She does it to an extreme because she’s a fictional character. I’m really learning through her and by her. Maya has to really find that balance and set boundaries, and know when to go for it when she wants something and when it’s time to step back and let other people shine. I’m really enjoying that permission to just relax every once in a while even though I’m not great at it.

To wrap it up, the show was announced to come back for season 7! Any teasers on what’s to come?

I wish I knew! Our writers are absolutely fantastic, and I’m sure they will come up with more brilliant storylines and beautiful monologues and speeches for us to all play. I can’t wait to see what they’re gonna do. We have new showrunners this season. The show is being co-run by Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige, and we’re in great hands. It’s a great hand off from Krista Vernoff, who did such amazing work with us for the last four years, to now have Peter and Zoanne take the reins. I’m excited to see what they’re gonna do with it, and to see what’s going to happen with Maya and where her journey is going to take her from here.

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I really love the down to earth frailties and yet strong people and real life in this show, it’s my favorite show every week!

Really love this interview with the beautiful, amazing, and multi-talented Danielle Savre☺️✨. This interview is really inspiring in so many ways, especially about “the fact that your personal life has to have its priorities too and there have to be boundaries.” Thanks Narrarive and Danielle for this awesome read🙌🏻👏🏻👍🏻.

I so agree with everything you expressed! Love Station 19!!

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I have enjoyed watching her blossom in the industry. I had the pleasure of meeting her in college. Danielle is very outgoing and has a wonderful attitude towards others. I am just so happy that she is doing so well.

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SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points from the Station 19 Season 7 premiere.

Station 19 returned tonight, airing the Season 7 premiere titled “This Woman’s Work,” and as everyone knows, this will be the final season of the firefighter drama created by Stacy McKee.

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Elsewhere in the hospital, Carina (Stefania Spampinato) is caring for a baby boy who just lost his mother, and boy does it look like this little one has found its way into the arms of someone wanting a child more than anything. Carina’s wife Maya (Danielle Savre) is by her side as they also discuss buying a house together so they can start fresh after all the drama that played out last season.

Later, it’s revealed that Jack has encephalomalacia, scarring in his brain from previous traumatic injuries. He may have lost some fine motor skills on his left side, Amelia tells Andy, who is stunned and wondering if he will be OK. Amelia can’t give her the firm answer she needs, but it’s hopeful with some physical therapy. But the doctor explains that football and hockey players with brains that look like Jack’s go on to develop CTE. While there’s a possibility for improvement, Jack still might not be able to work as a firefighter again.

Travis (Jay Hayden) has been enjoying a romance with his campaign manager Eli (Rob Heaps) — remember the one who had a major crush on Andy? — but Emmett (Lachlan Buchanan) has come back into Travis’ life following his father’s death. Emmett is a wreck, but Travis seems to help him find some comfort in knowing that his dad loved him. Before long, he also found comfort in his ex’s arms.

To close, not only is Natasha (Merle Dandridge) keeping her job as Fire Chief, but the rule against dating firefighters is being eliminated. Also, baby boy Liam’s adoption plans fell through, so Maya and Carina now are considering starting a family much earlier than anticipated.

Deadline spoke with showrunners Zoanne Clack and Peter Paige  about tonight’s episode and what’s ahead for the remainder of the season.

DEADLINE: Let’s kick off this conversation with Jack, please. He’s had a pretty tragic life, and now his life is hanging in the balance. What can we expect from his story?

ZOANNE CLACK: We all love the character of Jack, and we love that in the premiere were able to put him and Andy back together — kind of in this face-to-face for the two of them with echoes of the pilot and early Season 1. He’s part of the family.

PETER PAIGE: I think it’s worth mentioning that something that doesn’t get talked about quite enough in all the fire shows is that there’s a ticking clock on the firefighters’ careers. It is a career you choose out of passion and one that can come to an end at any time. We talk about it with ballet dancers and with some other careers, but we don’t talk about firefighters enough. It’s a very real part of choosing to be of service to your community in that way, and it was important for us to look at.

DEADLINE: The elephant in the room is that Dixon is finally dead. What does the Station 19 future look like without him?

PAIGE: Just remember, be careful what you wish for. A vacuum will get filled, and Dixon’s death creates a vacuum. Do not think that the challenges have gone in the ground with his body.

DEADLINE: He was so poisonous.

CLACK: We’re glad you appreciate that.

PAIGE: I want to say in this forum, Pat Healy is amazing, and a lovely actor. Telling him that we were killing him off was pretty brutal. But that being said, Zoanne and I both felt like it was time for some new evil in our universe. I will tell you that politicians are gonna politician. We wanted to explore other ways that politicians can undermine people’s best intentions.

DEADLINE: Now that Ross has her job back, what does the future look like for her?

CLACK: It’s a lot of what Peter just said. It’s the push and pull of what you have to give to get something. This season, you’ll see how Ross is dealing with that. She’s an amazing character and an amazing actress. We are so happy to be able to play with her on the show and give her some really meaty things to dig into, like who she is personally and professionally. There will be some strife, back and forth, between the power makers.

PAIGE: Nothing in politics comes free. Natasha keeping her job comes with a price, which will be explored in great detail throughout Season 7.

DEADLINE: Could we see another Sullivan wedding?

PAIGE: We can neither confirm nor deny.

DEADLINE: With the series ending, did you miss out on telling any stories you wanted to?

DEADLINE: There are at least two characters that could go back to Grey’s Anatomy , Carina and Ben (Jason George). Anything to report on that front?

CLACK: [Shrugs]

PAIGE: I have an emoji I can send you. … You know we can’t answer that.

DEADLINE: Can you share anything on Carina and May’s relationship? They went through so much last year.

PAIGE: They had a really rough Season 6. They went on a big, hard, difficult ride, but they hung in there, and they found their way back to each other. And Season 7 is about what is moving forward. How do they as a couple move forward with their dreams for their life?

CLACK: And they solidify the things that they’ve learned and what they’ve come through and how it evolves in their relationship.

DEADLINE: The inclusion of Maya’s mental health struggles last season and that it’s OK to ask for help was very powerful.

PAIGE: Yes, looking back, you will not find anyone who works in or around Station 19 who doesn’t believe in the power of healing and therapy as a tool. Props to Krista Vernoff, who was who was steering the ship last season , and as one of her closest friends, I can tell you that like she is always working on herself and inspires all of her friends and all of those surrounding her to work on ourselves as well. I hope that the takeaway for fans is if Maya Bishop — who was in that much pain, who had that messed up childhood — can find her way to some healing and can change, then I’ll be damned if I can’t too. There are tools out there now for getting help, and the therapy modalities are changing by the minute and improving so much.

CLACK: I think it speaks to our charge of doing inclusive storytelling, and mental health is just part of health. And we tell a lot of healthcare stories, being first responders, and it is just part of what we do. Everyone has a story about mental health or what they’re going through.

DEADLINE: Any chance Miguel Sandoval could pop in this season for a little flashback?

PAIGE: I will only say his presence is very much with us this season.

DEADLINE: Lastly, any chance we will lose anyone this season?

PAIGE: Firefighting is a very dangerous career, so there’s always a chance.

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Inside Danielle Savre And Stefania Spampinato's Real-Life Friendship

Some talented fans of the "Grey's Anatomy" spinoff series  "Station 19" adore the palpable chemistry between actors Danielle Savre (Seattle Fire Department firefighter Maya Bishop) and Stefania Spampinato (OB/GYN Carina DeLuca) so much that they've penned fan fictions about the pair, earning the stars their own "Stefanielle" section on Wattpad . Per SheKnows , fans have also bestowed their respective characters, Lt. Bishop and Dr. DeLuca, with their own endearing portmanteau of their names: "Marina." 

It was only matter of time before DeLuca and Bishop tied the knot on the show. After all, that electric connection has been there from Spampinato and Savre's very first table reading — even though the actors were not rehearsing romantic lines. "The chemistry was so strong in that scene, the whole room felt it. It was crazy," Spampinato told SheKnows. Her and Savre's characters both have high-stress jobs that bring the drama on "Station 19," but as noted by BuzzFeed , viewers also get to witness plenty of cute romantic moments and glimpses of their blissful home life, allowing Marina fans to microdose romance.

Spampinato told SheKnows that television portrayals of LGBTQ+ characters in a happy, healthy relationship are important because they might make homophobic viewers more accepting of non-hetero couples. As for Savre, she told "Let's Stay Together" host Tommy DiDario, "I can't put into words how much it means to me to play this role." Both Spampinato and Savre got something else out of their roles aside from being impactful fan favorites: a long-lasting, endearing friendship.

Stefania Spampinato believes her and Danielle Savre's attraction is real

Stefania Spampinato and Danielle Savre became fast friends when they were cast as a couple on "Station 19," and Spampinato spoke about how their instant connection made them a more believable onscreen couple in an interview for "Let's Stay Together." Said the actor, "I feel like we were attracted to each other. We had this chemistry, we like each other as people." In an appearance on "Valen y Sofi," Savre echoed these sentiments. "Stefania and I are very passionate people ... We have an admiration and respect for each other that I think resonates on camera. I love Stefania as a friend," she said. 

When the cameras aren't rolling, the two actors have a blast goofing off together on set. When she appeared on "Let's Stay Together," Savre revealed that she and Spampinato give themselves sugar highs by noshing on chocolate and Skittles. "We dance a lot, we laugh a lot," she said. "We just have so much fun." In a video for the "Station 19" Instagram account, fans learned that Savre and Spampinato call each other "bella" and that Spampinato has cooked some excellent meals for her co-star. 

According to Spampinato, the actors' close friendship has made it easier for them to improvise during intimate scenes. "A bunch of kisses were improvised. A lot of our body stuff isn't scripted," she said on "Let's Stay Together." 

Stefania Spampinato and Danielle Savre are both LGBTQ+ Allies

While some "Station 19" fans would love for Stefania Spampinato and Danielle Savre to date in real life, the actors are just good friends when the cameras aren't rolling. However, both women have been outspoken in their support for the LGBTQ+ community. Speaking to "Let's Stay Together," Spampinato recalled how she pushed back when her mother suggested that she shouldn't have accepted the role of Carina DeLuca because the character is bisexual. "I was like, 'Nope, I'm doing it, and I'm proud of it,'" Spampinato stated.

At an "A Day with" event in Milan, Savre opened up about her own experience as a member of the LGBTQ+ community . "There's a lot of shame that's associated with the LGBTQ community that's put on us. And it's wrong, and it sucks," she said, per Bingy News . "I have felt shame because I had feelings, romantic relationships with people of both [sexes]."

Savre also helped a gay couple start a family. Per ABC 7 , the actor donated one of her eggs so that one of her closest friends from childhood, Chris Ogden-Harkins, could have a baby with his husband, Jake, via surrogacy. "It's amazing. It's beautiful. Not to sound corny, it's magical. It's been amazing. Thanks to Danielle," Jake said of the actor's generous act. The couple's daughter was born in November 2021 , and it wasn't long before she was rocking a "Station 19" onesie .

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'Station 19' stars reflect on the legacy of one of TV's most beloved lesbian romances

Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato never expected that their characters, firefighter Maya Bishop and Dr. Carina DeLuca, would end up together on “Station 19.”

In the third season of ABC’s second “Grey’s Anatomy” spinoff, which follows the lives of a tight-knit group of firefighters at the Seattle Fire Department, Maya, then the captain of her firehouse, was at a crossroads in her personal life. A serial nonmonogamist afraid of commitment, she had just split with colleague Jack Gibson (Grey Damon) and was reluctant to jump into another relationship. One evening at the bar across from the fictional Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Carina offered to buy Maya a drink, wanting to hear the story of how the fire captain ended up carrying a severed nose in a plastic bag to the hospital.

Savre and Spampinato both said they felt an ineffable electricity during the initial read and filming of that scene — where it’s implied at the end that the characters spend the night together — and now consider it one of their all-time favorites. The actors both credit former showrunner Krista Vernoff for transforming what could have been another routine fling for Maya into one of the most beloved lesbian relationships on television.

“The initial natural chemistry was something that was undeniable and wasn’t something that you can put on or fake, even if you are a great actor,” Spampinato told NBC News in an exclusive joint interview with Savre. “That was a big component that we naturally had, and then I feel like we both love our job, love our characters, and wanted to portray a relationship that was believable.”

In retrospect, Savre and Spampinato said they couldn’t pinpoint a specific moment when they realized that fans had latched on to Maya and Carina’s relationship — which fans have lovingly dubbed “Marina” — but they noticed a clear shift while shooting the fourth season in 2020, when their social media accounts began to see a spike in engagement.

“I think because people were at home, they couldn’t get out, and they were watching a lot more TV, we went inside people’s houses in a way that was different than prior to the pandemic,” Spampinato said. “Maybe that was also why people connected to these characters so much.”

The cast and crew wrapped production on the third season just before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, and they returned to work later that summer under strict testing guidelines. In an attempt to limit exposure to the virus, the writers decided to pair actors up for more one-on-one scenes and keep them in a bubble, which Savre and Spampinato said accelerated the development of Maya and Carina’s relationship. That is why Spampinato, who had spent three seasons as a recurring character on “Grey’s Anatomy,” joined the “Station 19” cast full time in the fourth season.

“I actually remember thinking, ‘There’s no way that they’re going to make me a serious regular on a firefighter show because I’m a doctor. It doesn’t make sense.’ And then a few months later, they were like, ‘OK, you’re officially on ‘Station 19,’” Spampinato recalled with a laugh. “It’s because the relationship was so successful that they were like, ‘Yeah, let’s make it keep going.’”

In five seasons, Savre and Spampinato have played out the full arc of Maya and Carina’s tumultuous relationship: They decided to get married in the fourth season, began discussing their plans to start a family in the fifth and tried unsuccessfully to get pregnant using in vitro fertilization in the sixth. After briefly separating until Maya got professional help to address her underlying mental health issues, Maya and Carina decided to adopt a baby boy named Liam at the start of the seventh and final season. (The landmark 100th episode airs Thursday.)

For Savre and Spampinato, who both felt it was “definitely about time” for Maya and Carina to enter motherhood, this storyline has carried a special significance. Back in her native Italy, Spampinato said same-sex couples are not allowed to undergo IVF, and she has a lot of queer friends “who have found so much joy and fulfillment” in the experience of adopting children.

“I’ve been through IVF to donate my eggs before, so I think it’s so important to tell this storyline,” said Savre, who, unlike Spampinato, wants children of her own one day. “I think they’ve done a beautiful job of portraying the IVF process with Carina in the past and the emotional ups and downs that you go on.”

The kind of attention that comes with portraying one of the few lesbian couples on network television where both characters are part of the main ensemble has not been without its challenges. Over the years, some fans have conflated Maya and Carina with the actors who play them. 

“When somebody is talented or is doing something that you like and admire, you tend to think that the artist is the person — and I think it’s very important to separate that,” Spampinato said.

Savre — who spoke publicly about her sexuality for the first time at a 2022 fan convention — said she and Spampinato have confided in and checked in with each other from time to time, especially when the rumor mill began to spin out of control about their real-life relationship.

“I remember Stefania and I were at our first convention, and we were like, ‘Guys, we are not dating. We care for each other, we support each other and we love doing scenes together, but we are not together,’” Savre said with a laugh. “The reason I love to do the conventions with the fans is because you get to meet these people that these characters had such an impact on, but they actually get to see you as a person instead of just the character.” 

Since ABC announced in December that the seventh season of “Station 19” would be its last, some of those fans have launched an ardent campaign to save the show, with an online petition garnering over 85,000 signatures . 

“The fans came out and were like, ‘We aren’t going anywhere,’ which is amazing,” Savre acknowledged, “and sadly I’m starting to get the feeling that ABC’s not going to save it, but I’m trying to hold out hope.”

Although they are both “grateful” that the writers were given enough notice to avoid leaving any cliffhangers in the seventh and final season, Savre and Spampinato said the cancellation came as a shock to them and their colleagues, who were already in the middle of shooting the season’s first episode and preparing for the second. 

“It felt like an ice bucket in our faces,” Spampinato said.

The writers, who had already sketched out the season’s 10 episodes, had to pivot in a matter of days. 

“They basically had eight episodes to wrap up these storylines, and I think they’re doing a brilliant job with what they were given,” Savre said.

In the case of Maya and Carina, that meant accelerating the timeline slightly to show their early experiences with motherhood, rather than prolonging their struggles to start a family. 

“If this season wasn’t our final season, this would’ve played out differently. The writers told us it would’ve played out differently,” Savre said. “I know that we were drawing out these storylines, but there was a world where the payoff in the end would’ve been amazing — and I think this payoff is great, too.”

Spampinato added that the “writers are really trying so hard to fit in these 10 episodes everything we wish for, everything the audience wishes for, everything they wish for.”

“They’re trying to make everybody happy. I hope that comes through on the screen and people enjoy and appreciate it,” she said.

Savre, who was taking a break from shooting the series finale “in the wilderness” to complete this interview, teased that the characters don’t necessarily have “happy endings, but satisfying endings.”

“In reality, these characters will live on, so we’re not like, ‘They got everything they wanted at the end of the season.’ It’s more like we’re laying the groundwork for that,” she said. “These people are in a good place and their futures look bright, and that’s where we’ll leave the fans, who then can fill in the blanks themselves.”

But are the actors themselves happy with where their characters end up in the finale? “We’re just sad it’s ending, but given that, I think we’ll be happy,” Spampinato said, with Savre adding that she likes the fact that the ending is “not finite.”

The end of “Station 19,” however, does mean the closing of one of the most significant chapters of the actors’ lives. For Savre, whose real-life sister Stephanie works for the Los Angeles Fire Department , being able to represent the less than 5% of career firefighters who are women has been one of the greatest honors of her career.

“Representing a queer woman on television who went through ups and downs, who found love, who came from a rough childhood with an abusive father — I have been given so many amazing storylines to play in seven years that sometimes I’m in awe of what they’ve actually given me to portray,” Savre said. “Whether it was being a strong woman in a male-dominated industry, coming out to your parents, dealing with mental health issues, deciding if you want to have a child … I’ve been so grateful with every storyline and so scared to not screw it up, because I know how important the representation is for all of these things.”

Prior to joining the “Grey’s Anatomy” franchise, Spampinato said she felt she had been relegated to playing more one-dimensional characters who were used as nothing more than comedic relief. But on “Station 19,” she said, “what I’ve loved the most is the chance to play a character, aside from being Italian, that has a job, that falls in love, that has a family, that argues.” Given that Italy’s right-wing government is planning to roll back LGBTQ people’s rights, she added, it has been especially important to her to play an openly bisexual Italian woman.

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The actors both said they will particularly miss the ease with which they’ve been able to build their on-screen relationship. 

“A lot of times, actors don’t get along and butt heads, especially with love interests, and you’re like, ‘Oh, God, I have to make out with this person. I have to pretend.’ It’s never felt like that with Stefania ever — not once,” Savre said. “We care for each other. We support each other. I think we’ve been each other’s champions.”

While “Station 19” will be wrapping up its run in May, ABC recently renewed “Grey’s Anatomy” for a 21st season, extending its record as the longest-running prime-time medical drama of all time. Of all the characters on “Station 19,” Maya and Carina seem like two of the most likely to pop up on “Grey’s,” given that the latter still works at the fictional hospital.

Asked if either of them would be open to reprising their roles in the future, Savre and Spampinato agreed that if “Grey’s” showrunner Meg Marinis or Shonda Rhimes’ production company Shondaland came calling with an offer, they would both jump at the opportunity to return in any capacity.

“Of course we’re open to it. If we said, ‘No, there’s no chance, we’re never going to work together again,’ I feel like we’d get death threats,” Savre joked. “This is an industry that 100% is not in our control. But listen, if ABC or Shondaland came to us and was like, ‘We want a ‘Marina’ spinoff where you guys live on a boat and a marina ,’ we would be like, ‘Yes!’”

The final season of “Station 19” airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. ET on ABC. Episodes can also be streamed on Hulu.

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Max Gao is a freelance entertainment and sports journalist based in Toronto. He has written for NBC News, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated, The Daily Beast, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Men's Health, Teen Vogue and W Magazine. 

About That Station 19 Finale Cliffhanger and What Comes Next

Showrunner krista vernoff weighs in on all the drama that went down in the station 19 finale, including a huge cliffhanger for andy herrera.

Not even Meredith Grey ever got this kind of surprise. 

After spending all of tonight's finale, not to mention the past couple of episodes, searching for the reason her father had hidden her mother's side of the family from her since her mother's death, we all found out that Andy's mother actually didn't die at all. She's alive and seemingly well, and is no longer hiding away from her own daughter. 

What, we ask on behalf of Andy and all of us, the f--k?! 

The reveal is just another little blast from this bag of bombs Andy was gifted this season, including the death of her best friend, the loss of the promotion she thought she was getting, a new husband with a drug addiction, and the loss of her father. Showrunner Krista Vernoff says that it was her intention to put Andy through a little bit of hell this season, and we're in for a darker and twistier Andy—a la Meredith Grey—next season. 

"Here's what I know: having lived as many decades as I have now, sometimes life beats the s--t out of you. Like, sometimes life just beats the crap out of you everywhere you turn," Vernoff says. "It tends to rain, like when it rains it pours. We hear these stories all the time, like she lost her best friend and her mom in the same month, and then her dog died. But it's rare it happens on television like that. We tend to save it, you know, someone can lose their mom one season and their best friend another season. In television you want to parse it out, and I just felt like Andy was ripe for some abuse from life." 

Basically, Andy was too happy. 

"I think partly it was the design of the show," she says. "She just was perky and she was smiling a lot in the early years of the show, and I thought life hasn't beaten her up yet and I'm really interested in seeing who she becomes in the wake of some revelations. I was interested in exploring a darker, twistier Andy, and I think Jaina really has it in her." 

When you need to get darker and twistier, who else is there to go to besides Meredith Grey? While everyone around her has been telling her she's crazy for even thinking her dad might have had a dark side to him, Meredith was the one person who believed her immediately. 

"She's been through tremendous loss this season, and I think that loss laid her out, and then she had a knowing, she came into a knowing that something wasn't right about the story she'd been told her whole life by her dad," Vernoff explains. "She got signs, she found these pictures of the family, she had these fractured memories, and she seemed like a crazy person...because everyone who loves her is telling her she's crazy, but then here comes Meredith Grey, who doesn't really know her and doesn't really love her, but is able to offer her the clarity that she doesn't sound crazy. She sounds like a person who is coming back into her memories, which is a thing that Meredith has been through." 

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Sometimes the people who love us most, Vernoff says, just want to save us from the "deep, rich, important, painful truths of our lives that we need to discover." 

"Andy has discovered a very big truth about her life, but she doesn't know yet the why. Why did her father tell her her mother was dead? Why did her mother go along with that? What was happening. That is the right material for season four." 

Elsewhere, there was a whole lot going on. Explosions were going off at Pac North, which meant a five alarm fire and almost the entire team was involved. Only Sullivan and Andy were left out, as Sullivan, who is suspended for the drugs, was getting surgery on his leg, and Andy was being his wife while also freaking out about her dad. 

Things got hairy for a while as Dean was forced to use his bomb squad training to deal with a bomb that was about to go off in the lab the whole team was trapped in, but of course they all made it out safely. 

Oh, and Dixon was arrested for all of his corruption, which is really the icing on the cake. 

We asked Vernoff to weigh in on what went down with the Station 19 squad members, and what that means for their future. 

Dean and Vic 

Dean decided his crush on Vic—who still seems a little hooked on Jackson—is out of control, and asked her to move out, breaking her heart and the hearts of those of us rooting for them. Their potential love isn't dead, but it's not going to happen any time soon. 

"I think that Dean has developed very real feelings for Vic, and I don't think that Dean is nearly as quick as his friends are to break rules and to take risks that could lose him his friendships and his community," Vernoff says. "He lost his parents this year, he was disowned, and Station 19 is his family. And if he declared his love for Vic and it didn't go well, that fractures another family and could permanently fracture it. So he's trying to shove it down and he cannot continue to shove it down with her going to sleep in his bed." 

"He's trying to protect himself. He's trying to protect his community. He's trying to protect Vic. He's trying to protect his daughter. And I don't know how quick he will be to break with those decisions," she continues. "I really love the character of Dean and he feels really different to me than many of the characters in Shondaland. There's a really core moral center in him and I don't think anything between Dean and Vic is going to be quick to evolve." 

After throwing it in Carina's face that she slept with Jack last week and denying to everyone that her father was in any way abusive, Maya finally saw the truth when her dad showed up at the fire scene and tried to boss her around, berating her for not doing her job while he was the one preventing her from doing it. Then he pulled on her ponytail, and that was the last straw. 

Back at the fire station, she cut off that pony tail, then reconciled with Carina. Vernoff says that was Danielle Savre 's real hair, meaning there was only one take for that emotional scene. 

"I think that it lays her bare, and it opens her up as a character in so many beautiful ways," she says of this revelation Maya had. "Danielle got one take to cut off her real hair, and she did it so beautifully—the power, the pain, and the vulnerability. I'm really excited to see who she becomes in the wake of this discovery that she was abused and that what she had decided and had been told was love was actually abuse. I think that will change her as a human being, and she'll have the opportunity to learn how to really love." 

We just want Travis to be happy, and we told Vernoff that. She says that him breaking things off with Emmett is a step in the right direction. 

"I just want Travis to be happy too," she says. "And I think it's a big step on that path towards happiness to admit when you're not in love with someone. I think wanting partnership so badly that you pretend to be in love or that you pretend that someone is at your level because you can't handle being alone is not happiness. So I think that Travis has matured and he's starting to own his bravery and his truth and his adultness and his self esteem in a way that I think does lead to happiness. I just don't know that his happiness is going to be in a partnership in the immediate. We'll see. I don't know. Maybe he's gonna fall in love with someone amazing in season four. I just don't know yet." 

Jack, who has never really had a family, has built himself a little family, with the woman he saved from the Christmas tree fire and the woman and little boy he saved from the abusive husband. 'Scuse us while we wipe away a tear or two. 

"I so deeply love that story," Vernoff says. "And I love Jack and I root for him and I just love that he found a way to make himself a little family. I just love it. He was so lonely all season and I just love that out of the gesture of kindness, out of connecting with Marsha's loneliness, Jack recognized his own loneliness, and his own fear of being alone, and he reached out to her and in that effort, in that action, he created the opposite of loneliness for himself, and it moves me." 

Sullivan on the road to recovery for his addiction but now he's on a different road to recovery after going through with the surgery that may or may not help his pain. The last we saw of him, he was in extreme pain and accepting the morphine Amelia prescribed. 

"That could go in any number of directions," Vernoff says. Sullivan is an addict, but even in Narcotics Anonymous, if a doctor prescribes you medication, it's ok to take it, which is what Amelia is telling him. You don't have to be a hero and not take medication for your pain post op, but he's got his mindset and he believes his wife will be there to help him through it, and that turns out to not be true. So for sure I think there's a bit of a rocky road for Sullivan and Andy in season four." 

"I think that it's a marriage that was rushed into," Vernoff continues. "I think that they trauma-bonded, and that doesn't mean that it couldn't become a successful marriage, but right now it's on shaky ground." 

As for what comes next, stay tuned. We've got a few hints from Vernoff about what could happen with both Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy as production start dates remain uncertain. 

Station 19 airs on ABC. 

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‘Station 19’ Star Danielle Savre Stands With Striking Hollywood Writers: ‘Things Need to Change’

“I plan on going to the picket lines and representing [SAG-AFTRA],” the actress tells TheWrap

Add “Station 19” star Danielle Savre to the list of on-air talent supporting Hollywood scribes during the Writers Guild of America strike.

The actress, who will mark her TV directorial debut with Thursday’s new episode of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” spin-off series “Station 19,” told TheWrap she’ll be among the members of SAG-AFTRA joining the picket lines that began Tuesday.

“I support the WGA and everything that they’re fighting for. [‘Station 19’] wouldn’t be possible without the scripts that we receive,” Savre said. “I think there’s a lot of confusion, from my perspective, as to why a strike had to happen to begin with, because it seems like what they were asking for and [are continuing] to ask for is reasonable. And things need to change.”

The guild is seeking to improve compensation for TV shows and films, particularly for streaming projects. But it also strives to stop the abuse of what’s known in the industry as “mini-rooms,” a recent practice where writers who pitch a new TV series are required to actually assemble a writers room — with the members paid at scale with usually less writers than a normal writers’ room — and write a full season of scripts before the show will be considered for greenlight.

Talks between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) have been going on for months. In April, members voted by a 97% margin to authorize a strike should they not reach an agreement before the end of their previous contract on Tuesday.

“Streaming changed the world and the contracts don’t represent that,” Savre said. “I plan on going to the picket lines and representing [SAG-AFTRA] who supports WGA in this fight, and I hope it doesn’t last too long.”

“I think everyone’s a little scared that what happened in 2007-2008 is going to happen again. And of course that’s scary, But sometimes it’s scary to fight for what’s right,” she added.

For all of TheWrap’s WGA strike coverage, click here.

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Theatres in Moscow

Cultural life of Moscow city is various and rich! Operas, ballets, symphonic concerts... Russian composers have created some of the most beautiful classical music. Russian classical music is very popular in Moscow. It is performed in many beautiful historical venues. Do not forget to include a visit to a concert hall in your itinerary when you are planning your stay in Moscow! And do it in advance.

There are almost no restrictions on dress code in Russian theatres. Visitors may wear jeans and sports shoes, they may have a backpack with them. Only shorts are not allowed.

A typical feature of Russian theatre – visitors are bringing a lot of flowers which they present to their favorite performers after the show.

Here are some practical advices where to go and how to buy tickets.

The Bolshoi Theatre

The Bolshoi Theatre is the oldest, the most famous and popular opera and ballet theatre in Russia. The word “Bolshoi” means “big” in Russian. You can buy a ticket online in advance, 2-3 months before the date of performance on the official website . Prices for famous ballets are high: 6-8 thousand rubles for a seat in stalls. Tickets to operas are cheaper: you can get a good seat for 4-5 thousand rubles. Tickets are cheaper for daytime performances and performances on the New Stage. The New Stage is situated in the light-green building to the left of the Bolshoi's main building. The quality of operas and ballets shown on the New Stage is excellent too. However, you should pay attention that many seats of the Bolshoi’s Old and New Stages have limited visibility . If you want to see the Bolshoi’s Old Stage but all tickets are sold out, you can order a tour of the theatre. You can book such a tour on the official website.

If you want, following Russian tradition, to give flowers to the performers at the end of the show, in the Bolshoi flowers should be presented via special staff who collects these flowers in advance.

In August the Bolshoi is closed.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre

This theatre is noteworthy. On one hand, it offers brilliant classical opera and ballet performances. On the other hand, it is an experimental venue for modern artists. You can check the program and buy tickets online here http://stanmus.com/ . If you are opera lover, get a ticket to see superstar Hibla Gerzmava . The theatre has a very beautiful historic building and a stage with a good view from every seat. Tickets are twice cheaper than in the Bolshoi.

The Novaya Opera

“Novaya” means “New” in Russian. This opera house was founded in 1991 by a famous conductor Eugene Kolobov. Its repertoire has several directions: Russian and Western classics, original shows and divertissements, and operas of the 20th and 21st centuries. It is very popular with Muscovites for excellent quality of performances, a comfortable hall, a beautiful Art Nouveau building and a historic park Hermitage, which is situated right next to it. You can buy tickets online here http://www.novayaopera.ru/en .

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Center

The Opera Center has become one of the best theatrical venues in Moscow. It was founded in 2002 by great diva Galina Vishnevskaya. Nowadays its artistic director is Olga Rostropovich, daughter of Galina Vishnevskaya and her husband Mstislav Rostropovich, great cellist and conductor. Not only best young opera singers perform here, but also world music stars do; chamber and symphonic concerts, theatrical productions and musical festivals take place here. You can see what is on the program here http://opera-centre.ru/theatre . Unfortunately “booking tickets online” is available in Russian only. If you need help, you can contact us at and we can book a ticket for you. 

Tchaikovsky Concert Hall and The Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory

These are two major concert halls for symphonic music in Moscow. Both feature excellent acoustics, impressive interior, various repertoire and best performers. You can check the program here http://meloman.ru/calendar/ . You need just to switch to English. Booking tickets online is available only for owners of Russian, Ukrainian and Belorussian phone numbers. If you need help, you can contact us and we can book a ticket for you. 

Moscow International Performing Arts Center (MIPAC)

This modern and elegant concert hall houses performances of national and foreign symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, solo instrumentalists, opera singers, ballet dancers, theatre companies, jazz bands, variety and traditional ensembles. Actually, it has three concert halls placed on three different levels and having separate entrances. The President of MIPAC is People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Spivakov, conductor of “Virtuosy Moskvy” orchestra. You can see pictures of the concert halls here http://www.mmdm.ru/en/content/halls . The program is impressive in its variety but is not translated into English. You can contact us at and we can find a performance for you.

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