Lutheran Church, Vladikavkaz, Lutheran church in Vladikavkaz, Russia.
The Lutheran Church in Vladikavkaz is a 19th-century building that has housed the North Ossetian State Philharmonic since 1944. The former Evangelical Lutheran church, which belonged to the city's German community until the 1930s, is a regional cultural heritage site. Its interior now holds a concert hall and the philharmonic's symphony orchestra, chamber ensemble, male choir, and youth folk instrument orchestra.
The building was erected as an Evangelical Lutheran church for Vladikavkaz's German community, which used it until the 1930s. In 1944 the State Philharmonic of the North Ossetian ASSR opened here, formed from the North Ossetian Symphony Orchestra and local creative ensembles. From 1959 to 2000 Pavel Yadykh led the orchestra; in late 2016 the philharmonic reopened after a long renovation, and since 2017 it has been part of the Mariinsky Theatre.
The building was the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Vladikavkaz's German community until the 1930s. Since 1944 it has housed the North Ossetian State Philharmonic, whose ensembles include a male choir of national heroic songs and a youth orchestra of national folk instruments.
The philharmonic occupies the former Lutheran church in central Vladikavkaz; its branch opened in 2020 on Kuybyshev Street in the former House of Folk Art. The main hall reopened at the end of 2016 after a long renovation. Concerts are given by the symphony orchestra, the Yadykh Chamber Ensemble, the male choir of national heroic song and the youth folk-instrument orchestra, so check which ensemble plays before booking.
The building housed Vladikavkaz's German Evangelical Lutheran community until the 1930s, when that congregation lost it; the philharmonic opened there in 1944. Its hall has hosted Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Emil Gilels and Valery Gergiev, and since 2017 the philharmonic has been part of the Mariinsky Theatre.
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