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Moscow P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory

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Bolshaya Nikitskaya street 13/6. Metro station Okhotny Ryad, Chekhovskaya, Pushkinskaya, Twerskaya, Arbatskaya

Being one of the biggest musical conservatories in the world, the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory also holds leading positions as a concert centre.

For more then 100 years concert halls of the Moscow Conservatory are considered in the world as the best and most prestigious concert venues being at the same time a sort of the Conservatory’s “visiting card»..

In its disposal it has a complex of concert halls providing a perfect opportunity for realization of various creative ideas on the highest professional level.

These include a wonderful Great Hall which is widely used both for symphony, choral, organ and chamber concerts plus a «quartet» of chamber halls – Small, Rachmaninov, White and Conference Hall – each of them having its individual look, acoustic features and long standing concert traditions

Great Hall of the Moscow conservatory is one of the most famous concert venues not only in Moscow and Russia but in the world – thanks to its wonderful decoration, comfortable location and – which is the most important for the musicians – perfect acoustics. It was opened on 7 (20) April 1901.

The best soloists, orchestras and ensembles of the world play there concerts here. A number of international festival and competitions take place at the Great Hall, and among them there is the most famous in the world Tchaikovsky Competition. And it is considered as the most favorite hall in Moscow.


THE BOLSHOI

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Teatralnaya Ploshad 1. Metro station Teatralnaya, Okhotny Ryad

Bolshoi Theatre is the national theatre of Russia, the quintessence of the Russian musical tradition and the international center of the music culture. ..Bolshoi Theatre has always been and remains one of the major symbols of our great nation and its culture.

Priorities in the repertoire development include both staging the masterpieces of the Russian musical theatre of the 19th and 20th century, and conceiving the new work that would advance the art of opera and ballet in Russia. 70 per cent of the repertoire is comprised of the works by the domestic composers.

Bolshoi has a lot to offer to its foreign audiences, both those who travel to Moscow especially to attend the performances, and those who attend the company's touring performances abroad. We are offering the wide spectrum of the Russian classical heritage that facilitates changing the audience views on the development of music and theatre are in Russia.

The crucial phase of the renovation of the Bolshoi historic building started in Julay 2005. The preparations took many months, and the advance of the renovation will now be visible to each and every audience member. Between September 2005 and December 2007 Bolshoi performances in Moscow are take place only at the New Stage. It is expected that the company will be able to start using both the Main Stage and the New Stage in 2009-10 season.

After competing the renovation the Bolshoi will be able to equally participate in the advancement of world theatre while preserve the glorious traditions of the Russian opera and ballet. It will become the powerful symbol of the new Russia that every Russian could be proud of.


Helikon at Nikitskaya, Helikon at Arbat

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Bolshaya Nikiyskaya 19/16 and Nowy Arbat 11, building 2

What is “Helikon”?

There were a lot of opinions upon this question. Some people considered it was the mountain in Ancient Greece where singers and musicians sacrificed themselves to Apollo and muses. Others were firmly convinced that “Helikon” is not something else, but a wind instrument of the immense size. The end to disputes and doubts had been finally put on April, 10, 1990 when the musical theatre “HELIKON” was born in Moscow to unite young and talented actors and musicians in Russia.

The artistic director and the founder of the Theater, the Artist Dmitry Bertman in his 39 year has already staged more then 60 performances in Russia and abroad, including Spain, France, Germany, Ireland, Canada, Austria, Estonia, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark. His productions are always exiting shows, which give spectators a charge of special energy.

The repertoire of Helikon-Opera (this is how the theatre is called today) consists of more than 50 performances, each of which is unique. The theatre has always been trying to depart the “convenient”, outworn scenic embodiments, to surprise the audience not only with novelty and impudence, but with bright vocal and drama performance, at the same time carefully treating a composer’s idea. The hall which has 250 seats is always full of spectators, despite quite expensive tickets. Helikon-Opera is one of the most interesting and attended theatres in Moscow.


The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre

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Ulitsa Karetny Ryad (Hermitage Garden). Metrostation Pushkinskaya, Tverskaya, Mayakovskaya 

The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow was founded in 1991 on the initiative of prominent Russian conductor Evgeny Kolobov (1946-2003) and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and soon won recognition as a leading opera house in Russia.

Evgeny Kolobov’s name is covered with legend. Opera lovers remember his great artistic success in the Sverdlovsk Opera and Ballet theatre, where Evgeny Kolobov became the chief conductor being only 31. The theatre’s tour to Moscow in 1979 was a triumph of the young conductor. Since that time he was called “vigorous maestro”.

The new building of the Novaya Opera, constructed in the Hermitage Garden in 1997, has an audience capacity of more than 700 and is supplied with state-of-the-art lighting equipment and stage machinery, which make it possible to create productions with complicated stage effects. The theatre also has audio and video recording studios.

The Novaya Opera collaborates with distinguished masters of music: conductors Yury Temirkanov, Eri Klas, Gintaras Rinkevicus , Daniel Lipton; instrumentalists Eliso Versaladze and Nikolay Petrov (piano), Natalya Gutman (cello), Finnish jazzman Antti Sarpila (clarinet and saxophone); opera singers Jose Cura, Placido Domingo, Mario Frangoulis, Dmitry Hvorostovsky (about 10 joint performances), Franz Grundcheber, Paata Burchuladze, Feruccio Furlanetto, Deborah Mayers, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya; an outstanding Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis, ballet diva Anastasia Volochkova and soloists of the Ebony Opera of New York.

In 1999 the theatre became a member of the Opera Europa international association.


The Old Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard

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Tsvetnoy Bulevar 13. Metro station Tsvetnoy Boulevard

The Old Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard is one of the oldest circuses in Russia. The former rider and gymnast Albert Salamonski established the permanent brick building for the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow in 1880. On the 20th of October 1880 the circus was opened with five rows of seats, box seats, a dress circle, wooden unnumbered benches and a standing gallery . In 1884, brick stalls were built and, in 1889 a swimming pool was added. Albert Salamonski, himself a remarkable rider, found and attracted to the circus the best horse acts as well as other phenomenal acts from all over the world. At that time the circus began to expand its repertoire with elaborate pantomimes and special performances for children.

The best clowns of the russian circus, including Yury Nikulin, graduated from there. Starting in 1960 Yury Nikulin performed for many years as a clown. In 1983, Yury Nikulin was named the Chief Producer of the Old Moscow Circus. The last performance in the old building of the Circus took place on the 13th of September, 1985. It was a very emotional event for everyone.

A new building was built on the old site. The interior of the new building included modern technical equipment, new offices, dressing rooms and stalls for the animals. The foyer was remodeled into the elegant and beautiful structure we see today. The hall, with minor changes, was restored to its original pre-reconstruction state. Several years later, on the 29th of September, 1989 the program "Hello, Old Circus!" produced by V. Krymko and N. Makovskaya was the first performance in the new building. Today, the Old Moscow Circus can accommodate more than 2 000 spectators.