Opera Theater (Kazan): history, repertoire, troupe

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Modern TAGTOiB them. M. Jalil was opened in the 30s of the 20th century. Today his repertoire includes operas and ballets. The theater is also the organizer of two international festivals.

History of the theater

The Opera House (Kazan) has deep roots. Back in the 19th century, a hall was equipped for visiting guest performers, which could accommodate 400 spectators. In 1803, a theater building was built, which was destroyed by fire 40 years later. In its place today is the modern TAGTOiB.

The first own troupe appeared in the city in 1874. Her first performance was Mikhail Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar. In the same year, the theater building burned down. In 1875 it was restored. But in 1919 it burned down again. Only in 1934 was the Opera and Ballet Theater established. The building for it was built on the site of the one that burned down in 1936. The project was designed by Moscow architect Skvortsov.

In 1939 a new opera house (Kazan) was solemnly opened. Its address is Freedom Square, 2.

But the construction was not completed, it continued until 1956. The war caused the construction of the premisesit took so long.

When the construction was finally completed and the theater was opened (in 1956), it was immediately named after the famous Tatar poet Musa Jalil. And in 1988 - the status of an academic.

From 1981 to this day Raufal Mukhametzyanov has been the director of the theater. He was the first in Russia to introduce a new artistic and administrative model, close to the European one, and a contract system.

Kazan theater is one of the largest in Russia. His repertoire is based on classical productions by Russian and foreign composers, as well as Tatar works.

The theater is unique in that it abandoned the wording "chief director". "choreographer" and so on. Such a system avoids clashes and conflicts based on ambition and competition.

Since 1994, the theater has toured Europe every year. Each season runs from September to July. In February and May, the theater holds international festivals - for opera soloists and ballet dancers.

Opera repertoire

The Kazan Opera and Ballet Theater has the following operas in its repertoire:

"Eugene Onegin".
"Nabucco".
"La Traviata".
"Aida".
"Love Potion".
"Rigoletto".
"Troubadour".
"Jalil".
"Longing".
"Lucia di Lammermoor".
"Carmina Burana" (mystery).
"Porgy and Bess".
"Requiem".
"Dona nobis pacem" (Mass).
"A poet's love".
"Turandot".
"Pearl Diggers".
"The Barber of Seville", etc.

Ballet repertoire

The Opera House (Kazan) offers its audience the following choreographic productions:

"Lady of the Camellias".
"Swan Lake".
"The Nutcracker".
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
"Peer Gynt".
"A futile precaution".
"Anyuta".
"Golden Horde".
"Romeo and Juliet".
"Shurale".
"Don Quixote".
"Esmeralda".
"Coppelia".
"Sleeping Beauty".
Spartak and others

Troup

The Opera House (Kazan) brought together wonderful vocalists, ballet and choir dancers, as well as musicians on its stage.

Croup:

A. Elagina.
Yu. Ivshin.
G. Korablev.
S. Smirnova.
K. Andreeva.
B. Vasilyev.
T. Pushkareva.
Z. Cererine.
N. Semin.
Yu. Borisenko.
A. Belov.
R. Sakhabiev.
Oh. Alekseeva.
M. Kazakov.
K. Okawa.
Yu. Petrov.
A. Gomez.
Oh. Machin.
E. Odarenko.
B. Protasova.
D. Isaev and others.

Festivals

The Opera House (Kazan) is the organizer of two international festivals. They were invented and implemented in the 80s of the 20th century.

The first of them is the Fyodor Chaliapin Opera Festival. It has already become a brand of the republic. Every year it takes place in February, since it was in this month that the great Fedor Ivanovich was born. The F. Chaliapin Festival is one of the oldest in the field of opera art. It was first held in 1982. Today it is attended by leading opera soloists of Russian and foreign theaters, as well as conductors.

In different years, world-famous artists and conductors took part in the festival. These are: Maria Bieshu, Mikhail Pletnev, Irina Bogacheva, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Valery Gergiev, Lyubov Kazarnovskaya, Khibla Gerzmava, Ildar Abdrazakov and others.

The second festival, organized by the Kazan theater, is named after the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev. It is held among classical ballet dancers. It is traditionally held in May.

The 1992 festival is significant in that Rudolf Nureyev himself took part in it.

In different years, Uliana Lopatkina, Farukh Ruzimatov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Ilze Liepa, Svetlana Zakharova, Nadezhda Pavlova and other ballet stars performed here.