Krasnodar Music Theatre, Opera house in Krasnodar, Russia.
Krasnodar Music Theatre occupies a building on Krasnaya Street, 44, rebuilt on the same site and opened on 6 November 1966 with a hall of 1,432 seats designed by architect A. V. Titov. A reconstruction completed in 2002 enlarged the orchestra pit, replaced stage lighting and rebuilt the foyers and facades. The building also houses the Yuri Grigorovich Ballet Theatre and the Georgy Garanyan Big Band.
Founded in 1933 as the Armavir Lunacharsky Municipal Musical Comedy Theatre, it was renamed the Azov-Black Sea Musical Comedy in 1934 and moved to Krasnodar in 1937 as the Krasnodar Musical Comedy Theatre. German troops blew up its buildings on 10 February 1943, and it regrouped only in 1944. In 1966 it moved into a new 1,432-seat building by architect A. V. Titov, and on 1 October 1997 it became the Krasnodar Music Theatre.
The building also houses Yuri Grigorovich's Ballet Theatre, Georgy Garanyan's Big Band, the Kuban State Wind Orchestra and the children's studio of the Musical Theatre. Since 2002 the theatre has belonged to the Krasnodar creative association "Premiera", named after its director Leonard Gatov.
The theatre stands at Krasnaya Street 44, in the building of the former Koloss cinema where the company settled in 1954. The present hall, designed by architect A. V. Titov, seats 1432 and opened on 6 November 1966. The building also houses the Ballet Theatre of Yuri Grigorovich and the Big Band of Georgy Garanyan, so check which company performs on a given evening.
The building at Krasnaya 44, the former Koloss cinema, was rebuilt to a design by architect A. V. Titov for 1,432 seats and opened on 6 November 1966. After the 2002 reconstruction the orchestra pit was enlarged, with acoustics as one of the main goals, and the house reopened on 31 August 2002 with Shostakovich's ballet The Golden Age.
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