Natalya Sats Childrens' Musical Theater, Children's opera house in Moscow, Russia.

The Natalya Sats Children's Musical Theater is a theater in Moscow built in 1979 to a design by architects A. Velikanov and V. Krasilnikov. Its roof carries a sculpture of the Blue Bird by V. M. Klykov, and five portals hold sculptures of fairy-tale characters, including Pushkin's heroes and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Inside are a 1,100-seat main hall and a 300-seat concert hall.

The theater opened in 1965, building on earlier children's theater projects that had begun in 1918 under the Soviet education system. From the start it carried the name of Natalya Sats, who had spent decades working to bring opera and classical music to young people.

The theater is named after Natalya Sats, who in 1936 asked Sergei Prokofiev to write a work introducing orchestral instruments to children; the result was Peter and the Wolf. Inside, costumed characters entertain children before the show, real birds sing in an aviary, and decorative fish swim in aquariums. A special room is painted in story-book style by Palekh artists, including N. I. Golikov and A. D. Kochupalov.

The building on Prospekt Vernadskogo was designed for children, with a 1,100-seat main hall and a 300-seat concert hall. Criers announce the start of performances from balconies beneath the five sculpted portals, so allow time to find your hall. Inside, costumed characters entertain children before the show, an aviary holds live birds and aquariums hold fish.

Natalya Sats first narrated Peter and the Wolf in 1936 and gave more than 300 performances of it; she first narrated it in English in 1986 in Albany, New York, during a cultural exchange of theater troupes. The work has been recorded over 400 times in more than a dozen languages.