![]() Two years later, in 1959, the Novosibirsk Theatre witnessed the premiere of the ballet The Magic Lotus Lantern staged by the Chinese choreographers. In 1957, the Theatre had its first international tour to the People’s Republic of China. In 1955, 10 years after its unveiling, the Novosibirsk Theatre was invited on tour to Moscow for the “performance report” the productions of the theatre were performed at the Bolshoi Theatre. He held the post of the Principal Conductor of the theatre during the first seasons till 1949, and returned to the Theatre in 1968, where he stayed till the end of his days in 1986. The high professional level of the company was determined by the renowned musician Isidor Zak. Ballets Doctor Powderpill and The Scarlet Flower were staged for the young audience. The Theatre started forming its repertoire, mainly a classical one: operas Eugene Onegin, The Queen of Spades, Faust, the ballet Le Corsaire were shown to great public acclaim. On 7 November 1942, the first part of the Seventh Symphony, created by Dmitri Shostakovich in the besieged Leningrad, was performed in Novosibirsk in the presence of the composer.įrom its first seasons the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre has had a great company, equipment and resources. Under the baton of Evgeny Mravinsky, the evacuated orchestra played over 500 concerts for over 400 thousand listeners they also played over 240 concerts broadcast by the radio. In September 1941, the Leningrad Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra was evacuated from the besieged city to Novosibirsk. A bit earlier, during the war, the unfinished theatre building housed pieces of art evacuated from the Hermitage museum, the Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, palaces of Pavlovsk and Tsarskoe Selo, as well as musical instruments made by Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati from the state collection. The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre opened on 12 May 1945 with Glinka’s opera Ivan Susanin. Nevertheless, the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre proved by its history: nothing is impossible. The difficult time of the dawn of socialism forced to change the project a lot. ![]() ![]() The authors of the project wanted to create a huge panoramic theatre, a “hi-tech theatre with real sets,” where the cars, tractors, tanks or columns of demonstrators could appear on the stage right from the street. In 1927, in his conversation with young architects, he proposed “a revolution in the field of theatre architecture, a jump over the objective data of today,” in order to design the projects “of the future, that will be possible in a hundred years.” In the early 1930s, a construction of a huge theatre in a one-story city could be compared to flying to Mars. The project, which eventually brought the largest theatre building in Russia, originated from the boldest ideas of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The only theatre in the world, which was built and unveiled during World War II, it grew out of bold ideas, strong spirit and thirst for the future. The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre has a special destiny. ![]()
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