Historical calendar
2013
22
October
On 22 October 1935 the opera by Ivan Dzerzhinsky And Quiet Flows the Don received its world premiere at our theatre.
21
October
On 21 October 1963 the theatre hosted a gala performance When we’re 30, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the ballet company.
20
October
On 20 October 1939 Ilya Shlepyanov staged Andrey Pashchenko’s satyr opera The Pompadours.
18
October
On 18 October 2011 the theatre premiered Prokofiev’s Cinderella, choreographed by Maria Bolshakova.
17
October
On 17 October 1976 the theatre premiered Giacomo Puccini’s one-act opera Gianni Schicchi staged by Alexander Petrov and with stage design by Vyacheslav Okunev and Irina Press.
14
October
On 14 October 1970 the Nikolay Smolich’s production of Don Carlos (1955) was revived at the theatre by Semyon Lapirov supervised by music director Gennady Provatorov.
11
October
On 13 October 1918 the theatre presented its first own premiere in the post-revolutionary time.
11
October
On 11 October 1979 Gian Carlo Menotti’s Medium had its Russian premiere.
10
October
On 10 October 1948 the opera Cherevichki by Pyotr Tchaikovsky was staged at the theatre.
06
October
On 6 October 1925, the theatre premiered Giuseppe Verdi’s lyric comedy Falstaff. Samuil Samosud became musical director and conductor of the production, sets and design were created by Victor Rappaport and Nikolay Akimov.
