Description of the attraction
In 1987 in the city of Leningrad, the Chamber Musical Theater was founded by Yuri Alexandrov, People's Artist of Russia, Honored Art Worker, Music Director, and laureate of numerous theater awards. Initially, the Alexandrov Theater was conceived as a creative laboratory, which bore the name "St. Petersburg Opera". Subsequently, the creative laboratory grew into the State Theater, deservedly known not only in Russia, but also abroad.
The relatively young theater already boasts a rich creative biography. During its twenty-three seasons, the Chamber Theater has rallied into a whole organism with its own unique, original program. The theater employs great musicians, soloists, honored artists, diploma winners and laureates of all-Russian and international competitions. On the stage of the theater, diverse opera works are staged - these are musical dramas, and opera-buffs, comic operas, operas by classics and modern authors: "The Game of Robin and Marion" (Adam de la Al), "Falcon" (Bortnyansky), "Belaya rose "(Zimmerman)," I Believe "(Piguzov)," The Fifth Journey of Christopher Columbus "," Pied Dog Running at the Edge of the Sea ", (Smelkov)," Bell "," Rita "(Donizetti)," Eugene Onegin "(Tchaikovsky), "Boris Godunov" (Mussorgsky), "The Players - 1942" (Shostakovich), "Rigoletto" (Verdi), "Song of the Love and Death of the Cornet Christophe Rilke" (Mattus), "The Queen of Spades" (Tchaikovsky), "The Beautiful Elena "(Offenbach) and many others.
The theater troupe tours a lot in the cities of Russia, USA, Finland, Germany, Switzerland.
Until 2003, the theater did not have its own premises, and finally, on May 27 (on the anniversary of the city), the St. Petersburg Opera received its own house - a mansion that belonged to Baron von Derviz, in the center of St. Petersburg at ul. Galley in the house number 33.
The first premiere on the new stage was a musical sensation of a European scale - a melodrama created in a humorous manner by the Italian author Gaetano Donizetti "Peter the Great - Tsar of All Russia, or the Livonian Carpenter".
The mansion on Galernaya is known for its history of musical and theatrical traditions. Here, at the end of the 19th century, Vsevolod Meyerhold (who at that time presented himself under the pseudonym "Doctor Dapertutto") staged performances. Artists Sergei Sudeikin, Nikolai Sapunov, actors B. Kazarova-Volkova, N. Petrov, musician, poet M. Kuzmin were involved in Meyerhold's productions. Vakhtangov, Chekhov, Nemirovich-Danchenko, Stanislavsky, and many other famous people of art came to the performances.
At the beginning of the last century (since 1915), the mansion bore the name "Concert and Theater Hall", it hosted concerts in which Sobinov, Isadora Duncan, Fyodor Chaliapin performed. Performances and concerts were staged in the large White Hall, which had an equipped stage. In this hall, by some miracle after the club meetings of the Soviet period, the rich interior with stucco moldings in the form of sculptures that personify the types of art remained untouched. Other interiors of the mansion have also been preserved. This is the Maple living room with picturesque panels, and the magnificent Moorish drawing room covered with ornaments with gilding, and the Winter Garden, made in the form of a grotto.
The owner of the mansion was originally the famous statesman of the eighteenth century A. P. Volynsky, cabinet minister under Empress Anna Ioannovna. After the execution of Volynsky (he was accused of involvement in a conspiracy against Biron), his daughter became the mistress of the house, who married Count Vorontsov. Later the merchants Balabin, Schneider, and Prince Repin owned the mansion. Finally, in 1883, Baron von Dervies acquired the mansion, which was redesigned by the architect F. L. Miller in 1870 (Miller added another building and changed the facade).
In the 11-13 years of the last century, the mansion housed the "House of Interludes" under the leadership of Vsevolod Meyerhold. It was a bohemian restaurant and theater with an innovative and innovative repertoire. After this period, the Shebeko theater hall was located here.
During the revolutionary and post-revolutionary years, the mansion hosted numerous organizations. The district committee of the RKPb, the Estonian House of Education, the Metalworkers' Union were located there. After the Great Patriotic War, the building housed the Mayak club (until 1991).
And, finally, on the day of the three hundredth anniversary of the city on the Neva, the restored mansion again became the home of the theater, which performs symphonic and operatic music and houses the stage of the theater founded and headed by Yuri Alexandrov.
