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MOSCOW THEATRES
For decades Moscow has had a reputation as a city of
theatres. The birth plays of the historic "Bolshoy",
"Maly" and
"Moscow Art" theatres the city has been and steel
is a centre for
the development exploretary modern ideas in the dramatic
art and
is famous for it's great number of highlygifted, interesting
directors, actors, playwrigts and artists.
Every evening the doors of Moscow theatres open to streams
of theatre-gowers. The best Moscow theatres devoded themselves
to
developing the principals of directing and acting laid down
by
Stanislavsky, Meerhold, Nemerovich-Danchenko, Vachtangov
and
others. The discoveries and successes of Moscow theatres
today
exists due to experience and triumphs of preceding generations.
I'd like to tell you about the Bolshoy Theatre.
The magestic building of the Bolshoy Theatre stands in
Sverdlov Square in Moscow's central quater, not far from
Kremlin.
This is the leading Russian opera house with the best vocalists
and choreographers in it's company.
The Bolshoi traces it's history to 1776 when a standing
opera company was organized in Moscow. The first opera shown
in
Bolshoi theatre was opera "life of tsar" (now
"Ivan Susanin").At
later times operas by Dargomyzhsky, Serov, Tcaikovsky, Borodin,
Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Rubinstein were produced
here.
At the same time the Bolshoi company staged the best operas
and ballets by West European composers-Mozart, Rossini,
Weber,
Verdi and others.
The bolshoi ballet company enjoys well-deserved fame as
the
world's finest. This is equally true of it's brilliant realistic
style of perfomance and repertoire.
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