Bolshoi Theater (Saint Petersburg)

Bolshoi Theater 1886

The Bolshoi Theater ( Russian Большой театр "Great Theater") or Kamenny Theater ( Russian Каменный театр "Stone Theater") was a theater in Saint Petersburg .

It was built in 1783 in the classical style according to plans by Antonio Rinaldi as a "Kamenny" theater. In 1802, after a renovation by Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, it was renamed “Bolshoi”. The building burned down in a fire on January 1, 1811; it was reopened after being rebuilt by Antoine-François Mauduit on February 3, 1818.

The tsarist ballet and opera were located there until 1886. Although the Bolshoi Theater had many great Russian operas in its repertoire, most of the operas were premiered in the Mariinsky Theater .

In 1886 the building was classified as unsafe. Since then , ballet and opera performances have been staged in the Mariinsky Theater at the behest of the director Ivan Alexandrovich Vsevoloschsky . The Bolshoi Theater building was subsequently demolished to make way for the Saint Petersburg Conservatory .

The theater is not to be confused with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow .

World premieres

The operas premiered in the Bolshoi Theater include:

Giovanni Paisiello: Il mondo della luna (September 24 ^jul. / October 5, 1783 ^greg. , The theater's opening)
Michail Glinka: A Life for the Tsar (November 27th / ^July 9th, 1836 ^greg. )
Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila (November 27 ^jul. / December 9, 1842 ^greg. )
Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino (original version, October 29 ^jul. / November 10, 1862 ^greg. )

There were also world premieres of some ballets:

Cesare Pugni / Marius Petipa : The Pharaoh's Daughter (January 18, 1862)
Cesare Pugni / Arthur Saint-Léon : The Humpbacked Horse or The Tsar's Girl (December 3, 1864)
Léon Minkus / Marius Petipa: La Bayadère (January 23, 1877)

Web links

Commons : Saint Petersburg Bolshoi Theater - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Большой театр (Каменный театр) в Санкт-Петербурге. belcanto.ru, accessed October 30, 2018 (Russian).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Mariinsky Theater. mariinsky.ru, accessed December 27, 2016 .
↑ Il mondo della luna (Giovanni Paisiello) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on May 30, 2020.
^ Sigrid Neef : Schisn sa zarja. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 2: Works. Donizetti - Henze. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-492-02412-2 , p. 412.
^ Sigrid Neef : Ruslan i Lyudmila. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 2: Works. Donizetti - Henze. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-492-02412-2 , p. 416.
↑ Gilles de Van: La forza del destino. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 6: Works. Spontini - Zumsteeg. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-02421-1 , p. 465.
↑ Leonie Dannhauser: faraona Dotsch. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , p. 712.
^ Alfred Oberzaucher : Konjok-Gorbunok ili Zar-dewiza. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 5: Works. Piccinni - Spontini. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02415-7 , p. 497.
↑ Wera Krassowskaja, Gunhild Schüller : Bajaderka. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , p. 719.

59.92598 30.29819Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 30 ° 17 ′ 53.5 ″ E

[1] Большой театр (Каменный театр) в Санкт-Петербурге. belcanto.ru, accessed October 30, 2018 (Russian).

[A-2] Mariinsky Theater. mariinsky.ru, accessed December 27, 2016 .

[3] Il mondo della luna (Giovanni Paisiello) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on May 30, 2020.

[4] Sigrid Neef : Schisn sa zarja. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 2: Works. Donizetti - Henze. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-492-02412-2 , p. 412.

[5] Sigrid Neef : Ruslan i Lyudmila. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 2: Works. Donizetti - Henze. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1987, ISBN 3-492-02412-2 , p. 416.

[6] Gilles de Van: La forza del destino. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 6: Works. Spontini - Zumsteeg. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-492-02421-1 , p. 465.

[7] Leonie Dannhauser: faraona Dotsch. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , p. 712.

[8] Alfred Oberzaucher : Konjok-Gorbunok ili Zar-dewiza. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 5: Works. Piccinni - Spontini. Piper, Munich and Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-492-02415-7 , p. 497.

[9] Wera Krassowskaja, Gunhild Schüller : Bajaderka. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Music Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , p. 719.