Photo: Theater’s press office
The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre celebrated its 100th anniversary on December 22, Vechernyaya Moskva newspaper reports.
A large-scale theatrical performance was prepared for this day. Its program included excerpts from opera and ballet performances and a lot of surprise scenes where the past and the present of the theater met.
The theater released a unique gift album to honor the anniversary, containing the whole history of the place. Spectators and guests were lucky to be the first to see a huge, luxuriously illustrated edition.
The guests also visited the exhibition with sketches of scenery, costumes, historical posters and documentary photos created by famous artists.
Over the past century, the theater gave birth to many important musical life events. The works by famous composers, such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Kabalevsky, Khrennikov were put on the stage there; talented theoretical directors, among which were Meyerhold, Mikhailov and Stein, came to work at the theater.
Nowadays Musical Theater still has the love of the audience and boast the starry cast.
The theater starts the second century of its history with a rich program of 25 ballets - the premiere of popular performances Inger / Brown / Preljocaj is set for April 20. The opera repertoire of 28 performances will have two additions - a modern Devil in Love by Alexander Vustin premieres on February 15, and Othello directed by Andrey Konchalovsky will hit the stage on May 30.
Russkiy Mir
