Mariinsky Theatre | St.Petersburg, Russia

Address:Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Teatralnaya pl., 1

Metro: Admiralteyskaya

Mariinsky Theatre — one of the largest musical theaters in Russia. Since 1988, Valery Gergiev has become the principal conductor of the theater. In 2006, the troupe and the orchestra of the theater were given at their disposal the Concert Hall, 37, built on the initiative of the artistic director-director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev.

For more than two centuries of its history, the Mariinsky Theater presented many great artists to the world: the outstanding bass served here, the founder of the Russian performing opera school Osip Petrov, honed his skills and reached the heights of fame by such great singers as Fyodor Shalyapin, Ivan Ershov, Medea and Nikolay Figner , Sofia Preobrazhenskaya. Ballet artists shone on the stage: Matilda Kshesinskaya, Anna Pavlova, Vaclav Nijinsky, Galina Ulanova, Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Started his way to the art of George Balanchine. The theater witnessed the heyday of talent of brilliant artists-decorators, such as Konstantin Korovin, Alexander Golovin, Alexander Benois, Simon Virsaladze, Fedor Fedorovsky. And many, many others.

It has long been the custom of the Mariinsky Theater to have a pedigree, counting the century from 1783, when on July 12 a decree was issued approving the theater committee "to manage performances and music", and on October 5 the Grand Stone Theater was solemnly opened on Karuselnaya Square. The theater has given a new name to the square - it has reached our days as Theatrical.

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